Think your day is going bad? Well here's a little perspective to make you feel better.
Next time you find yourself grumbling about lack of enthusiasm on the part of your $11 per hour local cable TV repair guy, keep this story in mind.
This past Wednesday in Hopatcong, New Jersey, a cable repairman had a Bad Day when he ventured into the basement of a service needy domicile and found himself face to face...not with a dysfuntional cable modem...but a 500-pound sleeping bear.
Awakened from it's slumber, the bear wandered off and was eventually located and subdued.
It is not clear how the animal, which earlier had been spotted roaming through back streets and neighborhood yards, managed to gain access to the house. No forced entry has been reported and no investigators have yet ruled out the possibility of an inside accomplice. So far the homeowner has declined to comment.
The bear and the repairman both escaped without injury. The bear ended up with a tranquilizer dart hangover. The repairman ended up with one less pair of wearable pants.
Hopatcong officials are currently formulating plans to relocate the bear to a new woodland home.
The cable guy is seeking therapy.
This past Wednesday in Hopatcong, New Jersey, a cable repairman had a Bad Day when he ventured into the basement of a service needy domicile and found himself face to face...not with a dysfuntional cable modem...but a 500-pound sleeping bear.
Awakened from it's slumber, the bear wandered off and was eventually located and subdued.
It is not clear how the animal, which earlier had been spotted roaming through back streets and neighborhood yards, managed to gain access to the house. No forced entry has been reported and no investigators have yet ruled out the possibility of an inside accomplice. So far the homeowner has declined to comment.
The bear and the repairman both escaped without injury. The bear ended up with a tranquilizer dart hangover. The repairman ended up with one less pair of wearable pants.
Hopatcong officials are currently formulating plans to relocate the bear to a new woodland home.
The cable guy is seeking therapy.
Coaled...coaled...coaled.
And here's one for all you cynical middle-class malcontents, ...wanderlust driven and dreaming your dreams of tumbleweed lifestyles liberated from cubicles and time clocks and commitments. Consider the case of Christopher Artes and Mediana Hendershot, two free-spirits who fell in love and chose to thumb their noses at rules, regulations, and the whole world of conformity by chucking it all and heading out untethered for an uncharted heartland adventure, courtesy of stolen rides on American freight trains.
Romantic, eh?
Right up to the point where the coal car they were riding on opened it's dumper doors and unloaded the lovers, along with the several tons of coal they were sitting on, into a waiting power plant dump truck. The unfortunate pair was not discovered for several days.
Predictably, and sadly, the results were fatal.
Some Bad Days are silly days, and some Bad Days are sad days,
...and some are sadder than others.
But hey, ...they gave it a shot.
At least they had that.
Romantic, eh?
Right up to the point where the coal car they were riding on opened it's dumper doors and unloaded the lovers, along with the several tons of coal they were sitting on, into a waiting power plant dump truck. The unfortunate pair was not discovered for several days.
Predictably, and sadly, the results were fatal.
Some Bad Days are silly days, and some Bad Days are sad days,
...and some are sadder than others.
But hey, ...they gave it a shot.
At least they had that.
"It's up! And it's...it's...NO GOOD!"
And just because you've brought a lump to the throat of millions of sentimental movie goers with your real-life, up-by-the-bootstraps, can-do story of one little guy's triumph over towering adversity, it doesn't mean you get a lifetime free pass from the clutches of The Bad Day defense.
Oh-no.
Ask Daniel Ruettiger, the short statured walk-on bench warmer for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, whose pluck and tenacity earned him one shot at football glory, on the last play of his last game of his last season in South Bend, Indiana in 1975. A chance that he parlayed via the Hollywood hit "Rudy" into a personal legend and eventually, ...a financial scam.
Turns out Mr. Ruettiger fell in with twelve somewhat unsavory Las Vegas style marketing characters after founding a sports drink company (Rudy Nutrition), and thus wound up on the wrong side of the Securities Exchange Commission after they took a dim view of falsified product performance claims used by the marketers to lure unsuspecting investors. The false claims ramped the stock price up from $.25 to $1.05 per share.
Turns out that "Rudy" (the drink) neither outsold nor outperformed Gatorade in independent taste tests, as claimed by the marketing team.
The "team" included, among others, one disbarred lawyer, a Las Vegas penny-stock promoter, and a company president named "Rocky".
According to a report published by Reuters, Ruettiger was left to pay more than $380,000 in settlement without admitting or denying the charges.
Proof once again, that while there is no "I" in "team", there's more than one in "criminal".
Oh-no.
Ask Daniel Ruettiger, the short statured walk-on bench warmer for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, whose pluck and tenacity earned him one shot at football glory, on the last play of his last game of his last season in South Bend, Indiana in 1975. A chance that he parlayed via the Hollywood hit "Rudy" into a personal legend and eventually, ...a financial scam.
Turns out Mr. Ruettiger fell in with twelve somewhat unsavory Las Vegas style marketing characters after founding a sports drink company (Rudy Nutrition), and thus wound up on the wrong side of the Securities Exchange Commission after they took a dim view of falsified product performance claims used by the marketers to lure unsuspecting investors. The false claims ramped the stock price up from $.25 to $1.05 per share.
Turns out that "Rudy" (the drink) neither outsold nor outperformed Gatorade in independent taste tests, as claimed by the marketing team.
The "team" included, among others, one disbarred lawyer, a Las Vegas penny-stock promoter, and a company president named "Rocky".
According to a report published by Reuters, Ruettiger was left to pay more than $380,000 in settlement without admitting or denying the charges.
Proof once again, that while there is no "I" in "team", there's more than one in "criminal".
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