Thursday, October 18, 2007

Amusing Accidents


Think of some of the weirdest things that could happen and then put them on a web page. This is the kind of site I came across today. Some of these myths of whatever you want to call them are just flat out funny but try to actually believe in some of them! Some are also very sad.....

A young girl had decided to sneak out of the house to go to a party her protective parents wouldn't allow her to go to. While she was there she hooked up with a guy she liked and they went to a local make-out spot. The guy was drinking heavily and when he got too demanding she insisted on him taking her back to the party. On the way back they crashed into another vehicle. When the girl awoke in the hospital she knew she was dying, she was told that they guy she'd been with had died in the accident and so had the couple in the other car. She begged a nurse to tell her parents that she was very sorry she'd disobeyed them, the nurse just looked at her. After the girl died another nurse asked why she hadn't said anything with the teen had asked her to give the message to her parents. The nurse said, "I didn't know what to say, the people in the other car were her parents." Could you imagine. That would be horrible. This teaches you that you should always tell your parents where your going because you might just run into them later and not know it.

Another story I came across was about tanning. Everyone knows that tanning is bad for your skin yet millions of young boys and girls still enter the tanning booths everyday. A woman decided at the last minute to get a quick tan for a special occasion. When she found out about the limits the salons set on their tanning beds, she signed up at several different tanning salons. A few days later, her husband told her she "smelled funny". She showered and showered but the smell wouldn't go away. When she finally went to the doctor he ran some tests and told her: "I'm sorry, it seems you've microwaved your internal organs, there's nothing we can do for you." Summary of this story is don't go tanning because 1) its bad and 2) you might die.

This next story definitely makes me believe there is a higher power. An atheist who was training for the Olympics had been given special pool privileges at the university he was attending. Late one night he was considering the arguments a religious friend had been confronting him with as he climbed the high-dive for a little late-night practice. He stood on the board and prepared for a backward flip when he noticed the shadow he was casting on the wall formed a perfect cross in the partially-lit room. Shaken, he sat down on the board to think. As he sat there a maintenance worker came into the pool area and turned on the rest of lights and the diver saw that the pool had been drained for maintenance. How scary is that, you could have been dead but because you took one extra second to think are now alive. This story is crazy.

I personally don't like this story but someone might enjoy it so here it is. To help put out a forest-fire helicopters sometimes scoop large containers of water out of lakes and oceans to dump on the blazes. During one such occasion a man enjoying a bit of scuba-diving was accidentally scooped up and dropped into the burning trees. I highly doubt that this is possible but you never know. I wish I could come up with some crazy stories like the ones I find.



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