I’ve made some whoppers – but reading these made me feel so much better!
In 1631 printers of the King James Bible missed out a crucial word, ‘not’. So one of the ten commandments became: Though shalt commit adultery.
Better still an investigation into why the multi -million dollar Mars spacecraft failed to reach its destination in 1999, revealed that one of the scientists had been working in imperial measures while all the others had converted to metric.
Yesterday the IMF predicted that Central America would avoid recession despite its strong ties to the US. Will the day soon come when Nicaragua grants aid to Washington?
Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett has been locked in his own jail by a judge even though he hasn’t broken any laws.
The Sheriff has fed his inmates cheap skimpy meals and pocketed the left over money allocated for prison food. There is a law that lets Sheriffs profit from their jail kitchens and he has declared earnings of over $200,000 on his tax returns over that last 3 years.
The Judge ordered that the Sheriff should ”remain in custody until he submitted a plan to feed prisoners meals that are ‘nutritionally adequate’,”
A woman in Portland Oregon woke with a violent pain in her arm, it was so intense she took herself off to the Emergency room. It was only when the nurse called for assistance with a Gun Shot Wound, that she realised that she’d been shot.
Her neighbour had thrown his loaded gun on his bed and it had accidentally discharged into the wall, coming out the other side, hitting the woman in her shoulder and travelling down her arm finally coming to rest in her biceps.
Returning home after surgery to remove the bullet, the woman reported that she was fearful and angry that her neighbour had not taken immediate responsibility for his actions. Though one can assume he, at least, covered the hole in the wall.
For the uninitiated these awards are given to people who manage to remove themselves from the gene pool by their own stupidity. This years winners include the Priest who tried to break a record for flying using helium filled balloons, his body was recovered three weeks later.
For animal lovers there is an illustration of natural justice, when a man was out shooting with his dog. The dog found a bone and refused to drop it, his owner getting more and more frustrated started hitting at the dog using his riffle as a club. He missed the dog but as the riffle butt hit the ground it discharged and shot him in the stomach. He died after recounting the story to the police. The dog was unhurt.
