Truth is out there....

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Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!

A man hit by a car in New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but lay back down in front of the car when a bystander told him to pretend he was hurt so he could collect insurance money. The car rolled forward and crushed him to death.

In 1983, a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in her coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched, she suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright.

A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore -- where a tree blew over and killed him.

Mike Stewart, 31, of Dallas was filming a movie in 1983 on the dangers of low-level bridges when the truck he was standing on passed under a low-level bridge -- killing him.

Walter Hallas, a 26-year-old store clerk in Leeds, England, was so afraid of dentists that in 1979 he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his toothache by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall down, hitting his head, and he
died of a fractured skull.

Depressed since he could not find a job, 42-year-old Romolo Ribolla sat in his kitchen near Pisa, Italy, with a gun in his hand threatening to kill himself in 1981. His wife pleaded for him not to do it, and after about an hour he burst into tears and threw the gun to the floor. It went off and killed his wife.

Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found himself in the city prison.

Two West German motorists had an all-too-literal head-on collision in heavy fog near the small town of Guetersloh. Each was guiding his car at a snail's pace near the center of the road. At the moment of impact their heads were both out of the windows when they smacked together. Both men were hospitalized with severe head injuries. Their cars weren't scratched.

Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant nagging by giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built an elaborate harness to make it look as if he had hanged himself. When his wife came home and saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbor came over and, finding what she thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr. Fen kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr. Fen was acquitted of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.


Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
 
LOL!!!

The last one was really funny :)
 
Yep the last one was definately the best! Some of them were a bit similar but the last one also had a happy ending :)

The Holy Cow story:

A train was derailed in India after the driver tried to avoid hitting a sacride cow...
 
Well, in France, a guy wanted to suicide. So he jumped from a high bridge that crossed over a walker way... He fell on another person, killed that person and was not injured at all... Finally he was sued but was released because he didn't "intend to murder". Poor innocent walker :) suicided by another guy
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"So he jumped from a high bridge that crossed over a walker way... He fell on another person, killed that person"

I am a bit doubtful of these stories as you can imagine them happening but they probably haven't. Also I don't find it funny, just unfair.
 
There was that guy in NY who jumped in front of a subway to commit suicide. The driver saw him and braked as hard as possible. Still, he was caught by the train and hurt badly.

He sued the company and won quite some money. :rolleyes:
 
xlent!

edit: moved my joke to fresh thread
 
Most amusing, especially the cases of "natural justice"
Some of them remind one of some of Clouseau's suicide attempts.:D
 
i heard once some woman jumped off the efile tower trying to kill her self but landed on a car and survived
 
Any particular reason all the dates seem to be around 1983? Something you got from a book published around that time?
 
Wow, just heard another one, concerning a star: Courtney Love.
Her dog was accidentally poisoned and died because it bit into one of her old silicon breast. It might have confused that with a fake bone, according to the specialists. Well, that proves:
1) Her couple of airbags are fake
2) She surely changes them often

Oh and she said she wanted to keep all of her used silicon breasts... No comment. And poor dog, RIP
 
Reminds me of a magazin we had in the school's "fritids" (a place where yunger students go after school). The magazine whas "en ding ding värld" which mens somthing like, what a wird wird world. Well the things in that magazin whas faked but they were barley as wird as this.
 
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