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 ax 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.


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.