TRUE STORIES
Submitted by JDNBUD
I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in
toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this
woman called in very upset because she caught her little
daughter eating ants.
I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and
there would be no need to bring her daughter into the
hospital. She calmed down, and at the end of the conversation
happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant
poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that
she better bring her daughter in to the Emergency room
right away.
Seems that a year ago, some Boeing employees on the field
decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were
successful in getting it out of the plane and home. When they
took it for a float on the River, they were quite surprised
by a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them.
It turned out that the the chopper was homing in on the
emergency locator that is activated when the raft is inflated.
They are no longer employed there.
I worked for a while at a Wal-Mart store, selling sporting
goods. As an employee of Wal-Mart you are sometimes required
to make store-wide pages, e.g.,"I have a customer in hardware
who needs assistance at the paint counter."
One night a tentative female voice came over the intercom system
with the (I kid you not) following message:
"I have a customer by the balls in toys who needs assistance."
A police officer had a perfect hiding place for watching for
speeders. But one day, everyone was under the speed limit,
the officer found the problem: a 10 year old boy was standing
on the side of the road with a huge hand painted sign which
said "RADAR TRAP AHEAD."
A little more investigative work led the officer to the boy's
accomplice, another boy about 100 yards beyond the radar trap
with a sign reading, "TIPS" and a bucket at his feet, full of change.
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