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The Marriage That Nearly Killed Him

2008 Reader Submission
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A mans roof was leaking and his wife decided he should fix it. It was a steep peaked roof that was extremely slippery. For safety purposes, he tied a rope to his car on the other side of the house and the other end around his waist. Good idea, right? When his nagging wife had to go to town for whatever reason, she didn't notice the rope tied to the car. She pulled out of the driveway, pulling her husband off the roof and catappulting him off the peak. He was rushed to the hospital and managed to live, barely.

When he got home from the hospital a couple of months later, his wife again almost killed him. She was in the bathroom trying to get her aerosol hairspray can to work. She was spraying it in the toilet until it finally worked. Her husband, who was a smoker, entered the bathroom and was going to sit down to take a crap. He sat down, spread his legs and dropped a cigarette into the toilet water. Being soaked with hairspray, the toilet water quickly ignited and exploded. The man was blown off the toilet and was rushed to the hospital. He sustained life threatening injuries but that was the last we ever heard of him.

Submitted on 05/27/2008

Submitted by: Kevin Penner
Reference: Sylvan Lake Alberta 1987

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
I'll vote to keep this as a PA for the first story since it was his own stupidity that got him hurt by not letting his wife know what he was doing. The second one wasn't his fault so we can't accept it. I'm only voting for a PA since this story apparently is from 1987 and I couldn't find any references to back it up. Thanks for sending it in, Kevin!


James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
This would make a great animated cartoon short! I concur with Bruce in that only the first one qualifies (as a PA), but it's pretty funny just the same! Thanks, Kevin!


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