24.5.2009

Missing the Dead Line

    Missing the Dead Line

http://www.netsaga.is/media/files/Aliens%20among%20us.mp3


    The Alton (Illinois) Evening Telegraph reported in Sept 1946 that when its normally busy obituary writer Mildred West-she reported an average of 10 deaths a week-took a week's holiday, the people of Alton obligingly stopped dying. Once back on the job the death rate of ten or so a week immediately resumed.

 

    Le Victim

    In Nov 1991 the Guardian told the story of Mr. Alain Basseux and his misadventure on an English road. The Frenchman who had worked in Wiggington near York was cut up at a roundabout and lost his temper. He overtook the offending vehicle then lurked in a lay-bay until it passed him whereupon he gave chase and forced it over to the side of the road. Leaping from his car Basseux ran to the other vehicle forced its door open and grabbed the driver by his shirt front. -Do that again and you're dead, he roared. Then he recognized the man he was accosting: his boss. His counsel told the magistrate in so many words that B. behaviour was the French way-at least until he found himself assaulting his boss. His mood then became one of 'fear , trepidation and fright'. The Guardian said that B. did not lose his job which must have had something to do with the English way.

 

    Experts Fooled

    Eighteen senior Health Department bureaucrats attended a conference dinner early in 1992-and were all struck down with food poisoning!

 

    Pooling the Memories

    Melbourne has a memorial to Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt who drowned while swimming off Portsea, Victoria on 17 Des 1968. The memorial: the Harold Holt Swimming Pool.

 

    Keen by Name

 A surgeon is named Mr. Gillette.

 

    Truro Stories

    Between February and March 1969, the bodies of 4 young women were unearthed from shallow graves on the northerly hook of Cape Cod in Massachussets. Each had been brutally murdered; the scene of the crimes was near the village of Truro.

    Between March and May 1979, the bodies of 4 young women were unearthed from shallow graves north of Adelaide, the S-Australian capital. All had been murdered. The crime scene was near another village, also named Truro. Later the bodies of 3 more girl victims were uncovered in the area.