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I know stuff like this been done before. More or less anyway. Crazy stories, silly stories, stupid stories, funny stories, sad stories, wierd stories, ... lots of stories. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But true stories.

Crazy short things you read in a newspaper fi.

I read one a few minutes ago that made me wanted to try something like this again.

It happened in Flanders, Belgium. So it's in Dutch:



Translation:
National lottery makes wrong player happy

(Belga) A 33 year old woman from Boom (near Antwerp) lived for 3 days with the idea that she had won 50,000 euro (66,030 US $). The news was spread by "Het belang van Limburg" and "Gazet van Antwerpen" (both newspapers) on tuesday.

Last friday the woman recieved a message from the national lottery on her voicemail telling her she won that amount.
On monday though, they told her it was a mistake. They had dialed the wrong number.

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Like... couldn't you just kill those guys? It's enough to give you two heartattacks.
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it's the same story with mobistar(cell phone in belgium) that send an SMS to every costumer that he/she earned 50 free Messages,
the day after that everybody got an apology, that there was made a mistake.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Hey, Seth, is this the type of thing you are talking about? If not then I need
more info. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Really cool idea. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Alamo, Mich. -- James Burns, 34, of Alamo was killed in March as he was trying to
repair what police described as a "farm-type truck."

Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath
so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught
on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Nice new tread, Seth!
And so what if it's been done before, you can't always invent new stuff! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

That really sucks, them getting the lottery winner wrong.

One case here, a guy bought a Scratchie, an instant lottery ticket, and won something nice like AU$100,000 (US$70,000). When the newspapers asked him to do a reinactment for a photo, he scratched the ticket they gave him and exclaimed "I've won again!" He'd just won another $500!

It's always the rich guy who wins... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Oh, Rats

"In retrospect, lighting the match was my mistake. But I was only trying to
retrieve my son's rat." A man told doctors in the severe burns unit of San
Francisco City Hospital.

Admitted for emergency treatment after an attempt to retrieve the rat had gone
seriously wrong, "My son left the cage door open so his rat, Vermin, escaped into
the garage," He explained. "As usual, it looked for a good place to hide and ran
up the exhaust pipe of my motorcycle. I tried to retrieve Vermin by offering him
food attached to a string, but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the
pipe and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."

At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what had happened
next. "The flame ignited a pocket of residual gas and a flame shot out the pipe
igniting Mr. Stone's mustache and severely burned his face. It also set fire to
the pet rat's fur and whiskers which, in turn, ignited a larger pocket of gas
further up the exhaust pipe which propelled the rodent out like a cannonball."

Stone suffered second-degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the pet
rat. His son was grounded for 6 weeks. Nobody knows the fate of Vermin.

Shan <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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Two or three years ago, I found a very very surprising news on a newspaper, I don't remember wich. I think it really suits the title of this topic. I tried to search back for it on the net but didn't find it yet <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> ; anyway, the title was someting like that:

"A man prosecutes himself on a justice court"

I think it was in the US. The man was suffering of multiple personnalities trouble (kind of schizofrenia); One of its persnonnalities, the nice one, was prosecuting the other personnality, an agressive, rebellious one, because she made the man lose his job...

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That was really a crazy story... Imagine how complicating this case should've been <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I'll try to find it back, and if I succeed I'll post it here. It's worth it.

Anyone knows a "multi newspapers" search engine on the net where we can search by keywords please? All the english ones I know can only be saerched by dates...

Lovesick man 'stole ambulance to serenade girlfriend'

A lovesick Italian man stole an ambulance so he could serenade his girlfriend with its siren.

The 38-year-old man, who has not been named by police, jumped into the empty ambulance after he spotted the keys in the ignition.

He drove to his girlfriend's flat in Jesi, near Ancona, switched on the siren and began singing romantic love songs.

Police were called by neighbours complaining about the noise and arrested the man.

A police spokesman said: "This has to be one of the most bizarre cases we have ever had to deal with.

People always say, "You have to pay for your mistakes."

The Lottery should pay that woman something even if it isn't that much. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />

Ok if this is the right place for the news I have read, I am stuck and now I can't think about anything else.

That's shocking and weird.

Turkmen leader closes hospitals

And this is happening to the country that has been in the poverty for many years. Here is one report from 1990, the year where soviet medicine was not yet destroyed.
IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA, DEATH STALKS THE CHILDREN

I was monitoring Nijazov's regime for years and this is one of the wickedest regimes to date. In the 21st century one man who exterminates a nation (btw he calls himself Turkmenbashi - that means Father to all Turkmens.), kills opposition and spends millions of $ to build golden statues and marble palaces in his honour.

He also ordered to close all rural libraries motivating it: "Nobody reads books anyway." This is ofcource nothing as compared to hospitals but still.

If I could post in the name of anonymous, I would have definately liked to post a story that I remember. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

@ Egin -> now that is one place i would love to have George W Bush send his mighty US army to. i bloody hate those who are cruel to children.

That crossed my mind too...
It's just disgusting. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />

Didnt' read about the children (too long text <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />), but the Trurkmenistan thing is what I would call sick...

And now something totally different:

What most boys allways dreamed about <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

The weirdest thing I've ever read about is an article which said Belgium doesn't exist. Tried to find it, but it had been replaced with this. Hmm....

Übereil

I guess you ment this ?

Ah! That's the one <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />! Thanks, Seth <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />.

Übereil

hmm on a personal note; ... some years ago I was persuaded to buy a lottery ticket, there was a long line of ppl waiting at this particular place, any how I am standing there when an old Lady comes shuffling up huffing and puffing, by this time I was nearly at the counter to buy the ticket, of course being the Gentleman that I am I let the Old Lady go first and then I bought my lottery ticket.

The next day I read in the paper that an Old Lady of about 87 (picture helpfully provided of said Lady) won the 1.5 Million dollar lottery with ticket # blah blah blah.

Needless to say I had a ticket with the same number plus 1 .... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> who says it pays to be chivalrous and polite <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> The Old Lady sure did <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

That kind of sucks, but... I guess she was happy in her old age, eh?


Some 75 year old grandmother-housemaid person won a lottery of 400 million here last year, but decided to get it all at once, and ONLY got 150 or so.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> With such "daily exercises" and a diet of Mea's pasta, men'll be up to live for a century and more... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />