Daily Drivel

Today in History: Dec 7, 1941 A Day That Will Live In Infamy.

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Link of the day: National Geographic has compiled a pretty neat 'best of' list. Observe Nat Geo's Quirkiest Stories / discoveries of 2004 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1203_041203_quirky_stories.html

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Angel on My Shoulder

Alejandra Martinez drove her car through a stop sign in Anderson, IN, yesterday and slammed BAM into another car. Her vehicle then careened off the road, through a chain link fence, and into a concrete porch. In so doing, a 12-foot long metal fence post slammed through her mouth and straight out the back of her neck.

And she lived!

Wide awake when emergency crews came, Alejandra is now in the hospital recovering from surgery.

Everyone is saying she was so very lucky and that she has a guardian angel etc. Personally, I'm thinking that her guardian angel had maybe stopped at Krispy Kreme or something at that moment.

Oh - she had a passenger in the back seat: escaped unscathed. Now THAT's having a guardian angel.

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Cat man got stuck up tree ---straight from ananova
An Italian man who believes he's a cat had to be rescued by firemen when he got stuck up a tree.
Shoppers spotted the man at the top of the tree mewing for help and called rescue services after he was still there more than an hour later.
Attempts by local kids to coax him down with a saucer of milk failed, and as a result the 46-year-old cat-man had to be carried down a ladder by firemen.
He was taken to hospital in Milan where he is undergoing psychiatric tests, news website Tgcom reported.

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Another Nightmare Marriage

Scott McKie and Victoria Anderson had been dating for 2 months and realized deep down inside that they should be married. So get hitched they did, with a nice big wedding and, of course, an excellent reception with plenty of alcohol.

So they got married and went off to party with the gang. They remained in a state of wedded bliss for approximately 90 minutes, till Scott made a rude toast to the bridesmaids. Vicky got mad and slammed him in the skull with an ashtray.

So, of course, Scott grabbed a hat-stand from the corner and hurled it towards his loving bride 'like a javelin', according to witnesses.

Cops were called and Scott practiced his head butting technique on one of them and punched out another one prior to being dragged out of the reception and to jail. At this time, Vicky decided that maybe it just wasn't meant to be: she cancelled their honeymoon plans and began divorce proceedings.

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Please Stay On The Line

Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center started up a suicide prevention hotline last year, due to the extremely high rate of suicides in China (estimated to be 4 people per MINUTE). But it seems they kind of forgot to staff the darned thing, or maybe to purchase more than one phone.

Word is that about 9 out of 10 callers to the number get a busy signal. The BSRPC is blaming a shortage of funds.

I'm thinking' it's more like a shortage of brain cells when planning the darned thing.

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Crazy Woman Driver

47 year old Kathy Feaganes Allen was driving along in a parking lot at the same time that a trio of boys were playing ball in the same lot with a teeny tiny golf ball. They accidentally lost control of the ball and it hit PLINK the side of Kathy's SUV. The boys apologized, no damage was done, and all was well with the world.

Kathy started to drive away and then apparently became possessed. She slammed a U-Turn, ran over a median, and bore down upon the kids. She hit one dead-on and nipped another, then turned her attention to the third. Lucky for him, a light pole ended up being hit by the SUV, instead of him.

Then reports have it that Kathy got out of the vehicle, and proceeded to calmly smoke a cigarette as the kids were there writhing on the ground in pain. According to witness Russell McPhee: "After she ran them down, she got out of the car and lit a cigarette like a movie star."

Yup, just like a movie star...
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