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A couple of strange stories no comments
After watching the NFL opener on Thursday, I spent yesterday relaxing and lounging. As quite often happens when I spent a bit of time doing not very much, I discovered a couple of unusual news stories. One of them is funny, in a drunken and slightly unusual sort of way, and the second of them has a horrific irony about it, and both of them are curious and interesting, so I thought I would share them.
Yesterday in America – Madeira Beach, to be precise – a man was drunkenly stumbling around the beach, and started to pretend he was drowning. Apparently, he was doing it to lure teenagers close to him, before – wait for it – hurling jellyfish at them. I don’t know if he had any real plan of action, clearly and lucidly deciding that, yes, jellyfish would be the perfect throwing weapon to use on pesky kids, or if he just saw them and decided to lob them anyway. It must have been quite a painful choice of weapon, unless it was thought through and he had brought some form of protection, or knew how to pick the poor things up without getting hurt.
Regardless, it must have been quite a surprise to see them flying through the air at you when you try and save someone from drowning.
The next story is a sad one, and my thoughts are with the family and friends, but it is horribly ironic. A man was trapped in a lift, and he obviously prayed for help and safety, and he managed to escape. Then, deciding that he would immediately go to church and give thanks, an altar fell and killed him instantly.