Strange But True Stories Continued..
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MEDICAL MIRACLE A New York man has discovered that - without knowing it - he has had a bullet lodged in his skull for a quarter-century. The New York Post reports the following exchange between the man - William Adrian Milton, 59, "a writer and prominent dachshund fancier" - and his doctor, which took place after he had a brain scan because of head aches that he was having. Doctor: "Who
shot you in the head?" Mr Milton - who is the organiser of the annual Dachshund Oktoberfest in New York - later remembered an incident in 1976 when blood started spurting from his head, apparently for no reason. He had assumed he had been hit by debris of some sort falling from a building site, and ignored it But in fact he had been shot in the head. He has decided to let the bullet remain nestled in his skull. ---------------------------------------------------- MORBID MYSTERY Fire
authorities in California found a corpse in a burned out section of forest while
assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed
in a full wet suit, complete with SCUBA tanks on his back, flippers, and face
mask. A post-mortem revealed that the person died not from burns, but from
massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 most expensively saved animals were ---------------------------------------------------- Two
animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn
Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- A woman
came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist
towards the electric kettle. Intending to
jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his
arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to ----------------------------------------------------
This female monkey is a pet that was bought from an animal trader at a shop in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, May 9, 2002. The monkey, "adopted" the puppy recently and spends many happy hours hugging it, in fact it spends ALL its time hugging it and is reluctant to ever let go of the puppy. Hunting and selling of monkeys are prohibited under Bangladesh laws but they are seldom enforced. ---------------------------------------------------- In New York, 1977, A Hijacker boarded a plane and threatened the crew that he would shoot someone unless the plane was flown to Detriot. The Pilot was happy to oblige because the plane was bound for Detroit anyway. ---------------------------------------------------- Lord Horatio Nelson the world famous British naval hero who defeated the French and Spanish armadas at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and who is known as one of the best sailors ever actually suffered from sea-sickness and was sick on every journey he ever made, He hated the sea. ---------------------------------------------------- In 1906 in a town called Redruth south west England, there was a road traffic accident when two cars collided head on, injuring both drivers. The strange thing is though that at that time these two cars were the ONLY cars in that town. |