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Friday
Tale -
Think
YOU are having a Bad Day?
Fire
authorities in California (several years ago) found a corpse in a
burned-out section of 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.
A post-mortem 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.
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 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 300 feet in the air. Some days it just
doesn't pay to get out of bed.
Still think you're having a bad day?
A man was working on his motorcycle on the patio, his
wife nearby in the kitchen. While racing the engine, the motorcycle
accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars,
was dragged along as it burst through the glass patio doors.
His wife, hearing the crash, ran in the room to
find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the shattered patio
door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat on a fairly
large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the paramedics
and escort them to her husband.
While the attendants were loading her husband,
the wife managed to right the motorcycle and push it outside. She also
quickly blotted up the spilled gasoline with some paper towels and tossed
them into the toilet.
After being treated and released, the man
returned home, looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to
his motorcycle. He went into the bathroom and consoled himself with a
cigarette while attending to his business. About to stand, he flipped the
cigarette butt into the commode.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud
explosion and her husband screaming. Finding him lying on the bathroom
floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks, legs and
groin, she once again phoned for an ambulance. The same paramedic crew was
dispatched.
As the paramedics carried the man down the
stairs to the ambulance, they asked the wife how he had come to burn
himself. She told them. They started laughing so hard, one slipped, the
stretcher dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs,
breaking his arm.
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 killer whale ate them both.
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
listening to his iPod.
Still think you are 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. The two protesters were trampled to death.
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. Forgetting it was the bomb; he opened it and was blown to bits.
There now, feeling better?
~
from Jim Gentil's Positive Thinking e-newsletter
You were tossed to
the sky and to the ocean depths,
until
things looked SO BAD that you lost your courage.
You
staggered like drunkards and gave up all hope.
You were
in serious trouble BUT you prayed to the LORD,
and He
rescued you.
~ Psalm 107:26-27 (CEV)
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