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Next time you think
you are having a bad day, read this...
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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. A minute later they
were both eaten by a killer whale.
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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
repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.
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In 1992, Frank Perkins of
Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering
from the flue he came down eight hours early, his wife had left him and
his phone and electricity had been cut off.
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A woman came home to find
her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a
wire running from his waste 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. Til that moment
he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
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Two animal rights protestors
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 the best one....
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Terrorist, Khay Rahnajet,
didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to
sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was
blown to bits.
We don't know if
these are true, and we also don't know their origin. (Please let us know
if this is copyrighted material!) But certainly if tragedy is when it happens
to me, and humor is when it happens to someone else, then this is humor.
Previous "Peacock Humor Garden" pages:
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