purely for my amusement

Bizarre Acts of Stupidity

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.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty
of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the
pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken
fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to
death.

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shak-
ing 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. Till that moment he had been happily listening to his
Walkman.

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon
Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special cere-
mony, 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.

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years
on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-
page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to
50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused
the copier with the shredder.

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.

posted by kanigi @ 7:49 PM