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- Nedelja, 28. XII 2008.
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LUDI SVET
1. Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.
2. A man in Johannesberg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other's head.
3. A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.
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4. The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits. 5. A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain. 6. Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder. |
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7. A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.
8. Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.
9. When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.
10. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mp/h chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.
11. A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore - where a tree blew over and killed him.
12. Mike Stewart, 31, of Dallas was filming a movie in 1983 on the dangers of low-level bridges when the truck he was standing on passed under a low-level bridge - killing him.
13. Walter Hallas, a 26-year-old store clerk in Leeds, England, was so afraid of dentists that in 1979 he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his toothache by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall down, hitting his head, and he died of a fractured skull.
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14. Two West German
motorists had an all-too-literal head-on collision in heavy fog near
the small town of Gütersloh. Each was guiding his car at a snail's pace
near the center of the road. At the moment of impact their heads were
both out of the windows when they smacked together. Both men were
hospitalized with severe head injuries. Their cars weren't scratched. 15. George Schwartz, owner of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly escaped death when a 1983 blast flattened his factory except for one wall. After treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene to search for files. The remaining wall then collapsed on him, killing him. |
16. Depressed since he could not find a job, 42-year-old Romolo Ribolla, in 1981, sat in his kitchen near Pisa, Italy, with a gun in his hand threatening to kill himself. His wife pleaded for him not to do it, and after about an hour he burst into tears and threw the gun to the floor. It went off and killed his wife.
17. In 1983, a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in her coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched, she suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright.
18. A man hit by a car in New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but laid back down in front of the car when a bystander told him to pretend he was hurt so he could collect insurance money. The car rolled forward and crushed him to death.
19. Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found himself in the city prison.
20. In 1976 a twenty-two-year-old Irishman, Bob Finnegan, was crossing the busy Falls Road in Belfast, when he was struck by a taxi and flung over its roof. The taxi drove away and, as Finnegan lay stunned in the road, another car ran into him, rolling him into the gutter. It too drove on. As a knot of gawkers gathered to examine the magnetic Irishman, a delivery van plowed through the crowd, leaving in its wake three injured bystanders and an even more battered Bob Finnegan. When a fourth vehicle came along, the crowd wisely scattered and only one person was hit, Bob Finnegan. In the space of two minutes Finnegan suffered a fractured skull, broken pelvis, broken leg, and other assorted injuries. Hospital officials said he would recover.
21. While motorcycling through the Hungarian countryside, Cristo Falatti came up to a railway line just as the crossing gates were coming down. While he sat idling, he was joined by a farmer with a goat, which the farmer tethered to the crossing gate. A few moments later a horse and cart drew up behind Falatti, followed in short order by a man in a sports car. When the train roared through the crossing, the horse startled and bit Falatti on the arm. Not a man to be trifled with, Falatti responded by punching the horse in the head. In consequence the horse's owner jumped down from his cart and began scuffling with the motorcyclist. The horse, which was not up to this sort of excitement, backed away briskly, smashing the cart into the sports car. At this, the sports car driver leaped out of his car and joined the fray. The farmer came forward to try to pacify the three flailing men. As he did so, the crossing gates rose and his goat was strangled. At last report, the insurance companies were still trying to sort out the claims.
hanged himself. When his wife came home and saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbor came over and, finding what she thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr. Fen kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr. Fen was acquitted of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.
24. An unidentified English woman,
according
to the "London
Sunday Express"
was climbing into the bathtub one afternoon
when she remembered she had left some muffins in the oven. Naked, she
dashed
downstairs and was removing the muffins when she heard a noise at the
door.
Thinking it was the baker, and knowing he would come in and leave a
loaf of
bread on the kitchen table if she didn't answer his knock, the woman
darted
into the broom cupboard. A few moments later she heard the back door
open and,
to her eternal mortification, the sound of footsteps coming toward the
cupboard. It was the man from the gas company, coming to read the
meter.
"Oh," stammered the woman, "I was expecting the baker." The
gas man blinked, excused himself and departed.
25.
Columnist from the Canadian sports channel: "Here in Canada shoveling
snow
is becoming one of the winter sports".
SMRTONOSNE TEORIJE
Povijest je puna muškaraca i žena
koji su umrli kako bi dokazali svoja uvjerenja i teorije. Ono što se u
knjigama
iz povijesti ne spominje su osobe koje su žrtvovale svoje živote kako
bi
dokazali nešto što ljude i nije previše interesiralo.
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Magazin Cracked.com sastavio je popis šestero ljudi
koji su dokazali jednu vrlo bitnu stvar: vrlo je lako poginuti zbog
vrlo glupog uvjerenja. Pa, krenimo od kraja… 6.
Franz Reichelt ※ Što je htio dokazati? ※ Kako? ※ Što je zapravo dokazao?
Točnije, dokazao je da pad sa velike visine rezultira
smrću, čak i ako se dogodi da u tom trenutku nosite njegov modni
dodatak, kaput-padobran.
Kaput je trebao funkcionirati jednako kao i današnji
padobrani. Reichelt je to pokušao dokazati kada je 1912. skočio sa
Eiffelovog tornja pred hrpom šokiranih ljudi. Možete zamisliti kako je
završilo. |
5. Bando
Mitsugoro VIII
※ Što je htio dokazati?
Da je nepobjediv. Bar kad
su otrovi u pitanju.
※ Kako?
Bando Mitsugoro VIII bio je
japanski glumac, često
prozivan živućim nacionalnim blagom. Sve dok 1975. nije postao suprotno
od
toga… mrtvo nacionalno blago.
16. siječnja 1975. otišao je u
restoran sa prijateljima i naručio četiri ribe Fugu, poznate i pod
nazivom
"želja za smrću" zbog velike količine otrova koje sadrže. Namjera mu
je bila dokazati da je toliko imun na otrov ribe da može unijeti 4 puta
veću
količinu od one koja bi inače ubila čovjeka.
※ Što je zapravo
dokazao?
Zašto je mislio da je otporan na otrov? Ne znamo, ali vjerojatno je bio
jedan
od onih tipova koji se volio hvaliti svojim supermoćima pred
prijateljima. Ali
priznajemo mu da treba imati hrabrosti igrati se svojim životom da bi
ispao
faca.
Sedam sati nakon što je pojeo ribu,
Mitsugoro je bio mrtav. Prema stručnjacima za Fugu ribe, neurotoksini
koji se
nalaze u jetri ribe djeluju tako da je žrtva potpuno svjesna svega, ali
se ne
može pomaknuti i pričati, a uskoro više ne može ni disati.
4. Garry Hoy
※ Što je htio dokazati?
Da su prozori na njegovom
uredu neprobojni… i da
svemir nema smisla za ironiju.
※ Kako?
Garry je bio odvjetnik iz
Toronta koji je tvrdio
da je staklo na njegovom uredu neprobojno. Naslućujete kako je završilo?
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Što je zapravo dokazao?
Kako ste mogli i
pretpostaviti, Garry je testirao
svoju teoriju tako što se zabio u prozor. Naravno da je razbio prozor i
pao u
smrt pred nekoliko pripravnika koju su se u tom trenutku nalazili u
njegovom
uredu. Netko od njih je bio čaki toliko priseban da je zapisao njegove
posljednje riječi koje su zvučale ovako:
- Ovi prozori su
neprobojni! (smijeh pripravnika)
- Ne, ozbiljno,
evo gledajte. Ali nemojte to pokušati kod kuće. (u tom trenutku udara
tijelom u
prozor, staklo je izdržalo i čuje se pljesak pripravnika)
- Nemojte se još
veseliti. Nisam zadovoljan činjenicom da je staklo izdržalo jedan udar.
Idemo
dalje. (Garryjevo lice postaje tamnije)
- Da vidimo od
čega si stvarno napravljeno, ti jedno staklo. (Garry se zaletava i svom
snagom,
u stilu Supermana udara u staklo i pada kroz prozor)
- Hahahaha, dobro
je ovo staklo. O ne…sranje!!!
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Možda najbolja stvar u cijeloj ovoj priči je ta što se staklo zapravo nije razbilo, nego je ispao okvir prozora i to je razlog zašto je ispao kroz prozor. Tako da je, na neki način, Gary zapravo dokazao svoju teoriju, ali to vjerojatno nije neka utjeha njegovoj obitelji.
3. Jeff
Dailey i Peter Burkowski ※ Što su pokušali dokazati? ※ Kako? |
Uglavnom, svaki dan su sve više
vremena su provodili igrajući se i pokušavajući dokazati kako su
nepobjedivi
kraljevi svemira.
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Što su zapravo dokazali?
Ako ste u dovoljno lošem
fizičkom stanju, čak i
video igre mogu biti ubojite.
1981. Jeff Dailey je umro od srčanog
udara nakon što je postigao rezultat od 16.660 bodova. Godinu dana
kasnije,
Peter Burkowski je također doživio srčani udar nakon što je dva puta
srušio
rekord.
Neki kažu da su Jeff i Peter imali srčane mane, ali to su samo nagađanja. Ono što je očito je da ovisnost o igricama nije baš najpametnija. Najsvježiji primjer je onaj Korejca po imenu Lee Seung Seop iz 2005. koji je umro nakon 50 sati neprekidnog igranja "Starcrafta". Nadamo se da je bar pobijedio.
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2.
Jennifer Strange ※ Što je pokušala dokazati? ※ Kako?
2007. je radio postaja KDND 107.9 organizirala
natjecanje slikovito nazvano "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" u kojem su
natjecatelji morali popiti ogromne količine vode bez da odu na wc.
Nagrada je, pogađate, bila Nintendo Wii. Jennifer je nagradu toliko
željela da je pokušala dokazati da ljudi zapravo ne moraju koristiti wc. ※ Što je zapravo dokazala? |
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U jednu ruku, Jennifer bi se moglo
proglasiti super mamom, ali zaboga, nije dala svoj život za spasonosni
lijek za
svoju djecu, nego za glupi Nintendo Wii. A i nije da joj je to bila
jedina
prilika da ga dobije. Mogla je samo pričekati par tjedana i kupiti ga u
bilo
kojem trgovačkom centru.
Svi sa radio postaje su dobili
otkaz, a da ironija bude veća, Jennifer na kraju nije osvojila Nintendo.
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Christopher McCandless ※ Što je pokušao dokazati? ※ Kako? ※ Što je zapravo
dokazao? |
Peter Christian, rendžer sa Aljaske,
rekao je kako njegov postupak nije bio hrabar, nego glup, nelogičan i
tragičan.
"Nije proveo nimalo vremena učeći kako živjeti u divljini. Nije čak
imao
ni kartu ovog područja. Chris je zapravo počinio samoubojstvo." rekao
je.
Na kraju je čovjek koji je pokušao
dokazati da se bez kuće i struje može, završio kako primjer djeci da ne
izlaze
van iz kuće. Bravo, Chris! (cafe.hr)
MRVICE SA ŠKOLSKE
TRPEZE
Mali Saša nije znao da iseče kružiće
koji su mu bili potrebni za sutrašnju nastavu. Tata i sestra su se
sažalili i
napravili ih. Sutradan u školi učiteljica pita:
- Saša, ko ti
je pravio kružiće?
- Tata je
sekao, a sestra je bojila.
- Pa šta si
onda ti radio?
- Gledao sam.
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Nastavnik je zamolio Duška da
odrecituje jednu pesmu iz kosovskog ciklusa.
Pošto Duško
nije pazio, zbunjeno je ustao i počeo da recituje:
Uze
majka ruku Damjanovu
okretala,
prevrtala njome
pa
je baci nebu pod oblake...
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Tog časa ponavljalo se gradivo koje
je bilo predavano na prošlom času istorije. Profesor je upitao jednog
đaka:
- Nabroj mi
nekoliko grčkih i rimskih boginja.
- Venera,
Afrodita, Hera
- Još?
- Boginja
Minerva, boginja Ira...
- Vodene
boginje, velike boginje – šapnu mu neko drugarski...
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Na času istorije nastavnik pita: - Milane, Austrijom
je vladala i jedna žena. Da li znaš kako se ona zvala?
Pošto Milan nije znao, neko mu je šapnuo: - Marija Terezija
Milan, i pored toga što nije dobro čuo, kao da se nečeg
setio i smelo odgovori: - To je bila Tereza
Kesovija. [#851/1968]
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Analizira se rečenica "Majstor gradi kuću". - Šta je ovo "kuću"
u rečenici? – upita nastavnica. - Objekat – odgovori jedan učenik - Dobro, a
kakav objekat? – upita nastavnica misleći na bliži ili dalji objekat
koji su
prošlog časa učili. - Građevinski
– spremno odgovori učenik. |
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Obrađivali smo roman "Evgeniju
Grande". Nastavnica je postavila pitanje:
- Šta je bilo
sa Evgenijom posle smrti njenog muža?
Prozvala je jednog učenika koji nije
bio spreman na čas.
- Pa, Evgenija
je postala udovica. – odgovori on mucajući. [#852/1968]
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