>Next time you think you're having a bad day read this......
>
>1.      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.
>
>2.      A psychology student in New York 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 axe
>leaving her mentally retarded.
>
>3.      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 electricity had been cut off.
>
>4.      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.
>
>5.      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.
>
>        And the capper.......
>
>6.      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.
>