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Beaten To DEATH By Your Own HEADSTONE!!!

February 7th 2008 23:55
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Imagine how you would feel if people started calling you on the phone to find out whether or not you were dead or actually still alive!

This was the shock experienced by one 71 year old man by the name of Andy Lees in the UK recently.

On the advice of calls made to his house to determine his 'living and breathing status', he visited a cemetery in Blackburn to find that his headstone had indeed been erected with all his details on it except for an actual death date.

As it turns out, Mr Lees was given 6 months left to live by his doctors and so he set about planning and paying up front for his funeral and grave site so as not to burden his living relatives with the task.

The funeral company in their over-eagerness took it a step too far by having the grave plotted out and the headstone made up and installed in the cemetery. They have since apologised to Mr Lees for their stupendous oversight.
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Solar Power - An Ideal Solution? Perhaps Not!

January 3rd 2008 09:59
In 2001, council officials from Nottingham, England, after observing how much money was saved in Mediterranean countries through the use of solar powered parking meters, decided that the idea was good enough to install back home. Thus, they ordered £1.1 million Pay-and-Display solar powered parking meters for their local council area.

However they overlooked one very important detail.
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REALLY Addicted To Heavy Metal!

August 8th 2007 00:20
In June of this year, Sweden's English-language news reported the government's employment service had granted Roger Tullgren, supplemental income benefits based on his illness of addiction to heavy-metal music.

Tullgren , noticeable as a 42 year old male with with long, black hair, tattoos and heavy metal jewellery, had attended nearly 300 concerts during 2006.
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Porsche 2 For The Price Of 1 Deal

April 27th 2007 00:25
By now some of you will probably have heard about this now becoming infamous tale. I myself have heard it re-told on radio stations in the Sydney area, so I decided to do a bit of investigating. After all, I know there are some really stupid people out there, but surely not quite THAT stupid!

The story goes that Glen Fergusson - Sales and Marketing manager for a new U.S. Porsche dealer lost his job because he ran a "buy one get one free promotion".
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