Re: OT it's Friday....in poor taste, but there ya go! ;-p

Noddy wrote:
> "Jeßus" <power_sliding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:g0108b$im7$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> LOL... ya gotta laugh.
>> It's a bit like watching a paraplegic's brakes fail on a steep hill,
you 
>> know it's terrible but perversely funny at the same time.
> 
> In a strange, sick similarity, I saw a guy in a wheelchair get hit by a
bus 
> years ago, and it was kinda funny.
> 
> Seeing him get hit by the bus wasn't the funny bit obviously, but
watching 
> him realise he was about to get flattened and try to get away from the
bus 
> was pretty amusing in a sick & twisted kind of way. He was crossing a
busy 
> road and shot out from behind a parked car and didn't even know the bus
was 
> there until it locked it's brakes and got his attention. What he did
next 
> was the funny bit.
> 
> Instead of backing up or hurrying straight across the road to get out of

> it's path (in which case he would have made it), he turned to the same 
> direction as the bus was travelling and tried to outrun it. Seeing him
push 
> those wheels around so fast you could almost see smoke coming off the
tyres 
> was funny in a "Benny Hill" kind of way, combined with the genuine
disbelief 
> of what he was attempting to do.
> 
> He put in a good showing, but the bus won.

Heh.

And who could forget this incident:
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b3b3a5b2-7ba6-4967-bb7b-be4f2ad56343



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