Think your day is going bad? Here's a little perspective to make you feel better.
"How much for the forbidden fruit? Will you take a quarter?"
As any hardcore devotee will tell you, the thrill of yard sales lies mostly in the art of the deal and never knowing what you might be coming home with. In the case of one Duncansville, Pennsylvania man however, the real thrill was in learning that the deal wouldn't be fatal. That's because hidden among the crated items Mr. Donald Forshey had successfully haggled for, was an ill-tempered snake, which slithered out from it's hiding place and bit him on the leg as he drove with his girlfriend along Interstate 99. According to a story reported in the Altoona Mirror, police and medics responded, the serpent escaped, and Mr. Forshey, though bitten, suffered no lethal venomous consequences.
Exactly how the snake figured into the transaction has yet to be determined. Likewise it has yet to be confirmed by Kielbasablog precisely what items and what terms had been negotiated in the deal. However, an anonymous Kielbasablog source does report that at the time of the incident, both the victim and his girlfriend were consumed with shame and wearing nothing but fig leaves.
Exactly how the snake figured into the transaction has yet to be determined. Likewise it has yet to be confirmed by Kielbasablog precisely what items and what terms had been negotiated in the deal. However, an anonymous Kielbasablog source does report that at the time of the incident, both the victim and his girlfriend were consumed with shame and wearing nothing but fig leaves.
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Next we go down to Dixie where (unless you are a fan of True Blood) it was not a stellar day at Weaver's Funeral Home in Bristol, Tennessee. According to the Bristol Herald Courier, upon arriving at work, employees of the parlor were dismayed to discover a pair of living, breathing, non-paying, larcenous intruders, comfortably reposed in two of the funeral parlor's available caskets, ...sound asleep. Police were summoned. One man escaped (possibly by transforming into a bat). The other, mortified, was captured, but not before helping cause over $9000 in damage.
On the upside, look for some great deals in the showroom clearance aisle.
On the upside, look for some great deals in the showroom clearance aisle.
"Mommy! Mommy! Look at the funny pinata!"
Continuing our journey south, we move on now to sunny Monterrey, Mexico, where the Mexico Department of Tourism has extended it's rather lengthy run of tough luck thanks to recently published Associated Press reports of still more drug related cartel murders, including slain teen-agers, dismembered bodies, and one particularly entertaining episode where a victim managed to survive being hung off a pedestrian bridge, only to then be shot to death in full view of dozens of passing motorists.
Tourism officials are reluctant to speculate with Kielbasablog about any long term effects of the reports on Mexico's struggling tour bus industry, but continue to optimistically stress what they see as a unique "value added" aspect to the Mexican tourism experience. One that will hopefully help the business rebound. Said one source, "Where else are you going to be able to see someone hung live from a bridge and shot repeatedly, and then have a fresh cold Corona served to you with a lime in it...by a twelve year old? Salt Lake City? I don't think so."
Tourism officials are reluctant to speculate with Kielbasablog about any long term effects of the reports on Mexico's struggling tour bus industry, but continue to optimistically stress what they see as a unique "value added" aspect to the Mexican tourism experience. One that will hopefully help the business rebound. Said one source, "Where else are you going to be able to see someone hung live from a bridge and shot repeatedly, and then have a fresh cold Corona served to you with a lime in it...by a twelve year old? Salt Lake City? I don't think so."
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