From: Nicole Bryce
To: Matthew Barr
Subject: if you think your life sucks...

>How much would it suck to be these people?????
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>As Murphy stated things could always get worse!!!!!
>If you're feeling unlucky, just read these...
>

>A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river
near Naples, Italy.  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 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 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.

>George Schwartz, owner of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly escaped
death when a blast flattened his factory except for one wall.  After
treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene to search for the
files.  The remaining wall then collapsed on him, killing him.

>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 man hit by a car in New York got up uninjured, but laid 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.

>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.

>A twenty-two-year-old Irishman, Bob Finnegan, was crossing the busy Falls
Road in Belfast, when he was struck by a taxi and flung over its roof.  The
taxi drove away and, as Finnegan lay stunned in the road, another car ran
into him, rolling him into the gutter.  It too drove on.  As a knot of
gawkers gathered to examine the magnetic Irishman, a delivery van plowed
through the crowd, leaving in its wake three injured bystanders and an even
more battered Bob Finnegan.  When a fourth vehicle came along, the crowd
wisely scattered and only one person was hit, Bob Finnegan.  In the space of
two minutes Finnegan suffered a fractured skull, broken pelvis, broken leg,
and other assorted injuries.  Hospital officials said he would recover.

>In a classic case of one thing leading to another, seven men, aged eighteen
to twenty-nine, received jail sentences of three to four years in Kingston
on Thames, England, after a fight that started when one of the men threw a
french fry at another while they stood waiting for a train.

>Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant
complaining 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 he thought were two corpses, seized the
opportunity to loot the place.  As he was leaving the room, his arms laden,
the outraged and suspended Mr. Fen kicked him stoutly in the backside.  This
so surprised the man that he dropped dead of a heart attack.  Happily, Mr.
Fen was acquitted of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.

>While motorcycling through the Hungarian countryside, Cristo Falatti came
up to a railway line just as the crossing gates were coming down.  While he
sat idling, he was joined by a farmer with a goat, which the farmer tethered
to the crossing gate.  A few moments later a horse and cart drew up behind
Falatti, followed in short order by a man in a sports car.  When the train
roared through the crossing, the horse startled and bit Falatti on the arm.
Not a man to be trifled with, Falatti responded by punching the horse in the
head.  In consequence the horse's owner jumped down from his cart and began
scuffling with the motorcyclist.  The horse, which was not up to this sort
of  excitement, backed away briskly, smashing the cart into the sports car.
At this, the sports car driver leaped out of his car and joined the fray.
The farmer came forward to try to pacify the three flailing men.  As he did
so, the crossing gates rose and his goat was strangled.  At last report, the
insurance companies were still trying to sort out the claims.

>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.