Think your day is going bad? Here's a little perspective to make you feel better.
Three spectators were injured at an Old West Shootout fundraising event in Hill City, South Dakota this past Friday, when participants apparently inadvertently loaded some of their weapons with live ammunition.
Event officials have yet to comment on the incident but are quick to point out that any plans for next years festivities will focus first and foremost on not killing tourists.
It was a bad day for Bambi in Montana, according to a story published by Reuters News Service this week. A butter-fingered bald eagle apparently dropped a baby deer fawn it was carrying off to devour, right on to a high-voltage power line, killing the fawn, as well as power in the surrounding area. So far (to the relief of the eagle) police investigators are categorizing the death as accidental.
According to a story appearing in the Associated Press, things didn't go very well for a teenage Chicago mugger who selected as his victim, a pedestrian dressed as a clown. Not only did the mugger not realize that clowns are notorious for not carrying cash, but that in this case, the intended victim was an off-duty police officer coming home from a children's charity event. Forsaking his right to squirt water on the mugger from his fake lapel flower, the officer chose instead to resist the attack, wrestling the robber's gun away, which he then used to shoot and kill him.
Associated Press is reporting that everybody's favorite role model, Amy Winehouse, has accomplished something few performers have ever been able to do: Generate news coverage of a pop concert performance that occurred in Belgrade, Serbia. Unfortunately for Ms. Winehouse, the news is that she was booed off the stage by outraged audience members for wasting their time and money with her rambling and incoherent attempts at performing...The Daily Blic describing it as "the worst in the history of Belgrade."
You know you're having a bad day when residents of a nation involved in war crimes trials accuse you of assaulting their sensibilities.
You know you're having a bad day when residents of a nation involved in war crimes trials accuse you of assaulting their sensibilities.