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Still More Bizarre Tales Of Real Life


Still More Bizarre Tales Of Real Life
You would never hear someone say, "Hey, he looks like old whats-his-face" about this armed robber.

When You Die
  When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch. That's why I'll never be cremated. Hell, you might feel it. And if your hearing is last to go, and no one knows how long it takes because no one comes back from the dead, you may be able to hear everyone talking about you while you are in the coffin. At some point you'll probably hear, he looks good, doesn't he? It would suck to look better after you're dead than while you were alive.
Passenger Screening 
  During the years that the TSA has been screening passengers, none of its employees anywhere has discovered a single terrorist. I imagine it's because they are not allowed to search anyone who may fit the profile of a terrorist because they have to be politically correct. So they search old ladies and children. It should be enough to make any sane person pull their hair out. The people in charge of this stuff are nuts.
Nutmeg 
  Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Like someone would want to do that. There was a guy in my outfit in Vietnam who got cans of nutmeg sent from home. I asked why because that was kind of weird.
  "I mix it in a canteen of water and down it," he said. "I either get high as hell or I puke, and I never know which one will happen." The time I saw him do it, he went and puked. Now, that's a drug addict personality.
Statues 
  If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. If the horse is sitting down, the person died of being married to a nagging woman.


Navy Seal Shoots Self In Head And Dies
San Diego police said the Seal had been at a bar and returned to his apartment with a female companion, who he started showing several guns. Police said when she asked him to put them away, he assured her they were safe. He then put one pistol to his head and pulled the trigger, firing a round into his head, police said. (After all that training they forgot to inform him that you never put a gun to your head and pull the trigger, especially after you've been drinking and trying to impress a woman.)


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