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putting your foot in it

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

This will not qualify as a Darwin but may get an honourable mention

This story was told by a paramedic friend.

A chap was enjoying his retirement by keeping busy in his garden, as the grass had became somewhat unkempt he decided to use his strimmer to save some time. As it was a lovely summer day and us Britons who live in the North East relish any summer time he wore his shorts, t-shirt and sandals, unfortunately a small pebble became lodged in the sole of one of his sandals and while still strimming he started to shake his foot around vigorously, oh no his poor toes I hear you cry. But no the gods of fate had another plan for our poor man. Now during his strimming and vigorous foot shaking our man came to the attention of his neighbour who told our man not to worry and ran off. A few seconds later the neighbour returned with a 2 by 4 plank of wood in tow, jumping over the fence he set about hitting our man around the arm and body, it wasn’t until our man was on the ground nursing a badly broken arm that the neighbour realised his error that our man was not getting an electric shock but a small stone from his sandal.

Submitted on 02/25/2008

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: A paramedic friend.

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Now this one is too good to be true! Thanks for the funny story.


James said:
Maybe Toss: Personal Account
While there's no self-selection whatsoever here (hence my vote to toss, as per our rules), this story IS amusing in the extreme! We'll see if the other mods find it appropriate enough to keep. Hell knows they'll certainly find it funny!


Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
I find it a funny story but I don't see any self-selection here at all. The injury was caused entirely as a result of a stupid neighbor who was too willing to start swinging a 2 by 4 without first doing something as simple as asking "are you ok?". Although funny I feel really bad about the guy with the broken arm since he really wasn't deserving of it.


Shadow said:
Definitely Toss: Lacks Excellence
honorable mentions dont require a death, but as it was not his own stupidity and his neighbors that caused the broken limb i vote to toss...


Jorge said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Priceless help!!


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