If You Think You're Having a Bad Day:
March 20, 2000
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1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon
Valdez oil
spill in Alaska, was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the
most
expensively saved animals were released back into the wild, amid
cheers and
applause from onlookers. One minute later, in full view, they
were both
eaten by a killer whale. 2. A psychology student in New York, rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to "nag" him constantly, and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her with an ax, leaving her mentally retarded. 3. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door -- breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman. 4. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, the pigs, all two-thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death. And finally ............ 5. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting his letter was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to "bits".
On the lighter side... As they walked back to their car after the service, the father complained. "The service was too long," he lamented. "The sermon was boring, and the singing was off key." Finally the boy said, "Daddy, I thought it was pretty good for a dime."
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