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A man who shovelled snow for an hour to
clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her. ******** |
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An American teenager was in the hospital
recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train.
When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was
simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train
before he was hit. ******** |
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After stopping for drinks at an
illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental
patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Beltway
had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver
went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a
free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital,
telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone
to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days. ******** |
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A mother took her daughter to the doctor and
asked him to give her an examination to determine the cause of her
daughter's swollen abdomen. It only took the doctor about 2 seconds to say, "Your daughter is pregnant." The mother turned red with fury and she argued with the doctor that her daughter was a good girl and would never compromise her reputation by having sex with a boy. The doctor faced the window and silently watched the horizon. The mother became enraged and screamed, "Quit looking out the window! Aren't you paying attention to me?" "Yes, of course I am paying attention ma'am. It's just that the last time this happened, a star appeared in the East, and three wise men came. And I was just checking ... ******** |
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When his 38-calibre revolver failed to
fire at its intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach,
California, would be robber James Elliot did something that can only
inspire wonder: He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger
again.
This time it worked. ******** |
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The chef at a hotel in Switzerland
lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little
hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company,
suspecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for
himself. He tried the machine out and lost a finger. The chef's
claim was approved. ******** |
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A passenger in a taxi tapped the
driver on the shoulder to ask him something. The driver screamed, lost
control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb, and
stopped just inches from a large plate glass window. For a few moments
everything was silent in the cab, then the driver said, Please, don't
ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me." The passenger,
who was also frightened, apologized and said he didn't realise that a
tap on the shoulder could frighten him so much, to which the driver
replied, "I'm sorry, it's really not your fault at all. Today is my
first day driving a cab. I have been driving a hearse for the last 25 years. "
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