Having A Bad Day?

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 a.m., regardless of their medical condition.

This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 a.m. on; Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents.

The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 a.m., all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits.

Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday
sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he
could use the vacuum cleaner.

Having a Bad Day????

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.00. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers.

A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

Still think you are having a Bad Day????

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of 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, breaking his arm two places.

Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his iPod.

STILL think you're having Bad Day????

Two animal rights defenders were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly.

The two helpless protesters were trampled to death.

What?? STILL having a Bad Day????

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "Return to Sender" stamped on it.

Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

There now, feeling better????

[pcgirl54 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pcgirl54]

This is too funny!

[CarolF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CarolF]

You just brightened my day. Thank You

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

Just to add a little. Odd as it may seem, there are rooms that seem to go through phases in hospital intensive care units. For whatever reason we'll have a run where people will die in one or two particular rooms. We've had this happen with rooms. As far as someone uplugging life support and a pt. dying? We'll that's just not going to happen. One of three things happens when a life support machine is unplugged. #1, it goes on battery backup until it's plugged in again. #2 it makes a VERY unpleasant alarm sound. #3 it will do both alarm and go on battery back up.

The funniest thing I've ever seen occur in our hospital was a non-English speaking worker taking a floor buffer into the MRI room. Needless to say, the MRI machine literally ATE the floor buffer. Fortunately it did little damage to the MRI machine (just the patient track) and there was no one in the machine at the time of the incident.

Now, another killer whale ate the seals type story.

In a town north of us they had built a very nice and expensive baseball field for all the little leagures and soft ball teams. Shortley after they had built it ground hogs made their home there. Initially they were setting traps to kill the ground hogs.

Of course the animal rights activists could have none of that so they got permission to humainly catch the little fur balls and relocate them to a wildlife refuge. At the wild life refuge they became a animal rights activist delivered meals on wheels sort of deal for the badgers in the refuge.

The animal rights activists were very upset but, as the park ranger tried to tell them, that's just nature at work. Not every animal lives to see the next day and some are even FOOD for others. In this case they just happened to be the ones to set the table.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

Not every animal lives to see the next day and some are even FOOD for others. In this case they just happened to be the ones to set the table.

Reminds me of the day I took my nieces to the New England Aquarium.
They picked out a favorite fish, a funny lookin' feller with googie eyes. They followed him around the tank all day, named him "Rolly Poolly" (sic) and you know the rest............
Eaten right in front of their traumatized eyes just before we left.

No good deed goes unpunished......
They wailed all the way home.
Sigh.

[Kay H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kay H]

here's a reversal

DH found a box turtle on his way home from work and since the grands were coming for the weekend , he brought it home and put it in a makeshift pen to last just thru the weekend. By trial and error he found the turtle likes caterpillars.

When gd came she was playing outside and found a nice wooly caterpillar. DH was delighted and told her to give it to the turtle because he loves them.

NO WAY was she going to give this beautiful caterpillar to a hungry turtle. Guess who learned a lesson that day? .

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

[QUOTE=dougp26364;136813].

The funniest thing I've ever seen occur in our hospital was a non-English speaking worker taking a floor buffer into the MRI room. Needless to say, the MRI machine literally ATE the floor buffer. Fortunately it did little damage to the MRI machine (just the patient track) and there was no one in the machine at the time of the incident.
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There was a tragedy here on Long Island a few years ago. A boy was in an MRI machine. When the machine was turned on, an oxygen tank that was left in the corner of the room FLEW across the room, entered the opening, and killed the child. How awful.

[JudyS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JudyS]

Being the pedant that I am, I just had to go to Urban Legends Reference Pages and look up this "Having a bad day?" post. Turns out none of the stories are true, although some of them do sound plausible. See Urban Legends Reference Pages: Humor (Fake News Stories)

On the other hand, it is true that Keiko the Killer Whale, who stared in in "Free Willy," the story of an aquarium whale who wanted to be free, was rehabiliated and released into the ocean. Instead of enjoying his newfound freedom, though, he spent his time hanging around people hoping to get hand-outs and petting. Keiko died of pneumonia in 2003. (Actually, I was just checking the date on Keiko's death, and found this amusing sentence on CNN: "Normally, Norwegian fisheries authorities would order the remains of a large sea mammal towed to sea and sunk in deep water. However, they acted quickly during the weekend to give Keiko's backers, which included the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation and the Human Society of the United States, permission to bury the celebrity on land." CNN.com - Keiko buried in secret ceremony - Dec. 15, 2003
I guess you have to join a society nowadays just to be human! )

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

Being the pedant that I am, I just had to go to Urban Legends Reference Pages and look up this "Having a bad day?" post. Turns out none of the stories are true, although some of them do sound plausible. See Urban Legends Reference Pages: Humor (Fake News Stories)

On the other hand, it is true that Keiko the Killer Whale, who stared in in "Free Willy," the story of an aquarium whale who wanted to be free, was rehabiliated and released into the ocean. Instead of enjoying his newfound freedom, though, he spent his time hanging around people hoping to get hand-outs and petting. Keiko died of pneumonia in 2003. (Actually, I was just checking the date on Keiko's death, and found this amusing sentence on CNN: "Normally, Norwegian fisheries authorities would order the remains of a large sea mammal towed to sea and sunk in deep water. However, they acted quickly during the weekend to give Keiko's backers, which included the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation and the Human Society of the United States, permission to bury the celebrity on land." CNN.com - Keiko buried in secret ceremony - Dec. 15, 2003
I guess you have to join a society nowadays just to be human! )

While most urban legends aren't true, many do have some basis in fact.

For instance, I know that the local ground hogs being eaten by badgers is true as it came from our local newspaper and the animal rights acitivst were vocally upset that the wildlife park didn't tell them it wasn't a zoo where the critters would be kept safe.

MRI accidents happen on a semi-regular basis. We have had similar accidents where people were harmed in MRI machines at our hospital. While it's relativley rare, it DOES happen.

Other fun things that happen are objects inserted into body parts that the owner can't retrive (you should HEAR the excuses) and see what gets put where. If you EVER need proof that Darwin was wrong (we are NOT evolving), spend a couple of evenings in an Emergancy Department (they call them ED's now. I keep thinking erectile disfunction and refuse to use those initals). After a couple of evenings you could easily do your own, "So you think you're having a bad day" report.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Other fun things that happen are objects inserted into body parts that the owner can't retrive (you should HEAR the excuses) and see what gets put where.

I am not sure if you joined the Steam room forum on this site but if you did, You can post what they put where in that forum.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

I am not sure if you joined the Steam room forum on this site but if you did, You can post what they put where in that forum.

Or you can just go to St. Vincent's Hospital down in Greenwich Village and you will find out

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Or you can just go to St. Vincent's Hospital down in Greenwich Village and you will find out

I don't want to see that, No Village people for me.

[JudyS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JudyS]

While most urban legends aren't true, many do have some basis in fact.

For instance, I know that the local ground hogs being eaten by badgers is true as it came from our local newspaper and the animal rights acitivst were vocally upset that the wildlife park didn't tell them it wasn't a zoo where the critters would be kept safe.

MRI accidents happen on a semi-regular basis. We have had similar accidents where people were harmed in MRI machines at our hospital. While it's relativley rare, it DOES happen....

Oh, I belived your comments about the MRI (I've heard of several accidents of this type happening) and also that the relocated groundhogs were been eaten (although I'd doubt that all of them were) - relocated animals have to compete for habitat space and often do poorly, although I still give animals I trap in my house a fighting chance, rather than killing them.

It was just the original "Having a Bad Day?" post that was made of urban legends. For example, in the story about rehabilitating the seals, I really doubt that it costs $80,000 to rehabilitate an oil-covered deal, and I very much doubt they'd both be eaten within minutes.