2.14.07

FROM http://www.emmitsburg.net/humor/daily_additions/2007/feb/14.htm

Late one night a policeman spotted a man driving very erratically through the streets of Dublin.

They pulled the man over and asked him if he had been drinking that evening.

“Aye, so I have. ‘Tis Friday, you know, so me and the lads stopped by the pub where I had six or seven pints. And then there was something called “Happy Hour” and they served these mar-gar-itos which are quite good. I had four or five O’ those. Then I had to drive me friend Mike home and O’ course I had to go in for a couple of Guinness’s — couldn’t be rude, ye know. Then I stopped on the way home to get another bottle for later…” And the man fumbled around in his coat until he located his bottle of whiskey, which he held up for inspection.

The officer sighed, and said, “Sir, I’m afraid I’ll need you to step out of the car and take a breathalyzer test.”

Indignantly, the man said, “Why? Don’t ye believe me?!?”
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2.1.07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

1972: Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone.

1976: Keith Relf, guitarist for The Yardbirds, died while practicing his electric guitar, electrocuted because the guitar was not properly grounded [26].

1977: Tom Pryce, a Formula One driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal Jansen Van Vuuren both died at the 1977 South African Grand Prix after Van Vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by Pryce’s car at approximately 170mph. Pryce was hit in the face by the marshal’s fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.[27]

1978: Claude François, a French pop singer, was accidentally electrocuted when he tried to fix a broken light bulb while standing in a filled bathtub.

1978: Janet Parker, a British medical photographer, died of smallpox in 1978, ten months after the disease was eradicated in the wild, when…