THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE HAVING A BAD DAY:

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.
Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clad diver ended
up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that on the day of
the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast some 20
miles from the forest. The fire-fighters, seeking to control the fire
as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very
large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and then flown to
the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was
making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing the breast
stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air. Apparently he
extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. Some days it just doesn't pay
to get out of bed. This article was taken from the California
Examiner, March 20, 1998.

Still having a bad day?
Just remember, it could be worse . . .
1. 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 released back into the wild amid
cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a
killer whale ate them both.

2. 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 his Walkman.