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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. A 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 repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.
3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400-day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
4. 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.
5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting 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...
6. Iraqi 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.
There now! Your day's not so bad, is it?
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My day's still sucks, I just feel smarter.
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quote:Originally posted by Squishy0405: 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 repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.
In order for her to be left mentally retarded, we're assuming that she was fully functional before she began the study. I don't see any evidence for that here.
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Man, the seal story isn’t true. Somehow in reading, what I thought was all the UL’s on snopes, I missed that one. I loved that story. I think I’m gonna go pout now, that way it will hide that I’m really really emarassed.
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quote:Originally posted by Squishy0405: 3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400-day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
If you don't pay your phone and electric bills for 400 days, should you be surprised those services had been cut off?
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quote:Originally posted by Norton II: If you don't pay your phone and electric bills for 400 days, should you be surprised those services had been cut off?
Probably he thought his GF would pay them; however he also believed she would hang around for 400 days; people wanting to spend over a year at the top of a pole are not entirely conventionally sane, even if he was a UL
EDIT OK, it wasn't an urban legend that he sat on a flagpole, but the other info about him is UL
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