[SOC] Fwd: Having a bad day?

[Bob Nielsen]

I can't vouch for the accuracy of these, but they're certainly possible.

Bob, N7XY
SOC #77

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> If you're not quite up to par today, read the following:
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> THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY...? Check out these actual cases
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> Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section
> Of a forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The
> Deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba  
> tanks
> On his back, flippers and face mask.
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> A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from
> Massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
> Identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully
> Clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.
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> It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off
> The coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters,  
> seeking to
> Control the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of
> Helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the
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> Ocean and emptied at the site of the forest fire.
> You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the
> Pacific, the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket
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> 300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
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> Still having a bad day? Just remember, it could be worse...
> 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 being released back into the wild amid
> Cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a
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> Killer whale ate them both.
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> Still think you are having a bad day?
> A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking
> Frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of 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,
> Breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily
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> Listening to his Walkman.
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> STILL think you're having a bad day?
> Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending
> Pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand
> Pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly.
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> The two protesters were trampled to death.
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> What? STILL having a bad day?
> Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter
> Bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it.  - Wait for
> It... Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
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> There now, feeling better
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