Next time that you're having a bad day read this:
A psychology student in NY 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 ax leaving
her mentally retarded.
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 electricy 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, 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. 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 ceremony, 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 enought postage on a
letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it.
Forgetting it was a bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.