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Up Up and Away! This is a gem from the Short Stay Unit in Frankston Hospital: In Australia, there was an ad campaign which encouraged parents to supervise their kids while they swam in the pool. Our Honorable Mention was one of these parents. He was watching his kids play in the pool in the backyard. They had an aboveground pool with a trampoline next to it. The kids had a great time jumping from the trampoline into the pool. The Dad thought that would b fun. However the Dad didnt jump from the trampoline but from the roof of the nearby garden shed. He summoned up all of his cretinous courage and leaped: He landed on the trampoline square in the center. The trampoline launched the 40-something Dad into the air. Dad cleared the pool... And the back fence... And landed on his neighbour's windscreen backside first. It gets better. He was stuck! He couldnt get out! He called out to his kids but they were laughing to hard to get mum He needed several stiches in his rear end and payment of his neighbours windscreen. Unfortunately the neighbour didnt see this astronaut otherwise his enforcement of payment for the windscreen perhaps would have been more lenient The kids? Once they regained composure (apparantly a good five minutes) they went straight back jumping trampoline-to-pool.

Liz What a great story. Don't want to pinch your thread, but it reminded me of something that happened to me years ago. I was doing a petition in my home town against a seal cull in Canada. I was on 200th signature, I rang the bell of this house the door opened and this dog flew out pinning me against the wall and sunk his teeth into my arm. I was really shocked, but made this woman sign the petition. The woman was saying "oh he wants to say he's sorry" I didn't wait for an apology, I bolted! I had to go to casualty, although not too much damage done I still needed an anti tetnus. The Doctor asked me what had happened, much to her amusement I had to tell her I was campaigning against cruelty to animals!

and i thought i was accident prone!!!!!!!! very funny lmao sandra

Unfortunate Husband II 1997 Urban Legend This guy pushed his motorcycle from the patio into his living room, where he began to clean the engine with some rags and a bowl of gasoline, all in the comfort of his own home. When he finished, he sat on the motorcycle and decided to give his bike a quick start and make sure everything was still OK. Unfortunately, the bike started in gear, and crashed through the glass patio door with him still clinging to the handlebars. His wife had been working in the kitchen. She came running at the fearful sound, and found him crumpled on the patio, badly cut from the shards of broken glass. She called 911, and the paramedics carried the unfortunate man to the Emergency Room. Later that afternoon, after many stitches had pulled her husband back together, the wife brought him home and put him to bed. She cleaned up the mess in the living room, and dumped the bowl of gasoline in the toilet. Shortly thereafter, her husband woke up, lit a cigarette, and went into the bathroom for a much-needed relief break. He sat down and tossed the cigarette into the toilet, which promptly exploded because the wife had not flushed the gasoline away. The explosion blew the man through the bathroom door. The wife heard a loud explosion and the terrible sound of her husband's screams. She ran into the hall and found her husband lying on the floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks. The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance. The same two paramedics were dispatched to the scene. They loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. One of them asked the wife how the injury had occurred. When she told them, they began laughing so hard that they dropped the stretcher, and broke the guy's collarbone. Liz

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