Top Weird Stories Of 2005

[zengrifter]

Dr. Franklin Ruehl's Top Weird Stories Of 2005

Prepared by Dr.Franklin Ruehl,Ph.D.
drruehl@yahoo.com
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-Terrible way to go! Motorcyclist in Custer,SD, was following a truck loaded with Porta Potties when one fell off, hitting him and causing him to swerve into 3 cars, killing him!

-Far better way to go! Man in Portage,MI, bowled a perfect 300 game, then keeled over and died!

-1st face transplant (in France)characterized by 2 unusual aspects aside fro mthe surgery itself: the gal undergoing the operation had attempted suicide with an overdose of barbiturates(which may have provoked her pet Lab to maul her face as he frantically tried to wake her) while the donor had hanged herself to death!

-Man was caught shoplifting no fewer than 7 toothbrushes at a supermarket down in Ribeirao,Brazil...the irony: he was toothless, explaining that he just wanted to know what it would feel like to need toothbrushes!

-While feeding milk to his pet king cobra, a Hindu priest in Jharkhand, India was bitten...amazingly, the snake died and the priest survived!

-Diver stranded on a rock in New Zealand's Cook Strait refused to be winched up to a hovering rescue helicopter, admitting that he was terrified of heights...a powerboat later provided him a safe ride home!

-A foot-long koi (a type of carp) came sliding down a Mansfield, England chimney, bounced off of the flames, and landed on the hearth, amazingly still alive...a heron's beak mark on its back indicated that the bird scooped him out of a garden pond, then accidentally dropped him..."Sooty" is now enjoying a new lease on life in a local pet shop!

-Doofuses of the week! Two morons separately died from swallowing lit firecrackers that exploded inside them during New Year's festivities in the Philippines (fortunately, they were not readers of "The Realm of Bizarre News")

-Tragic coincidence! 2 brothers perished in separate car accidents within 15 minutes of each other in Louisville, KY...each had crashed into a tree! Their father, a deputy sheriff, was called to the scene of one accident, and unknowingly drove right past the site of the other misfortune!

-Shocking! Two Romanian priests, arguing about expenditures, began fighting each other inside the church in Constantia, with one hospitalized with a broken arm!

... more here - http://www.rense.com/general69/dr.htm

[KenSmith]

OK, so we'll each light these firecrackers, swallow them, and then we'll drink something really fast to put out the fuse in our stomach. I dare ya.

Sounds like evolution at work to me.