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Ironic, Isn't It? 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 animals, whose rescue was the most expensive, were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale. In 1992,a Los Angeles resident made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. By the time he had come 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. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist to the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a plank of wood she found by the back door and broke his arm in two places. A shame, as he had merely been listening to his Walkman. Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death. An international terrorist didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "Return to Sender" stamped on it. He opened it -- and said a fond farewell to his face. |
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