This is a story about two boys getting into all the trouble they could find.
They fill a wheelbarrow with cinderblock bricks and truck it up to a foot bridge over the freeway. They wait for a car to approach the bridge and drop a brick, aiming for the windshield of the car. This goes on for a while until they start running low on bricks, so one of the kids has the idea to get a length of rope to re use one brock multiple times.
As they come to the last brick, the boys tie one end to the brick, and one end to on kids arm. The idea is they toss it down, crack the windshield and pull it back up; lather, rinse, repeat. This goes on for a while, and the boys manage to smash quite a few windshields when a semi truck starts it’s approach on the bridge.
The kid throws the brick down and smashed through the big rigs windshield easily, but since the windshield was verticle on the truck, rather than slanted as on most vehicles, the brick got caught in the cab, and proceeded to tear the poor boys arm right off at the shoulder!
I’ve spoilered off the last of the story for you more sensitive types, so read at your own risk:
As the truck goes under the bridge the arm starts flailing around, not unlike a kite, and the driver passes a cop a short distance down the road. The cop sees the arm and immediately pulls the driver over.
Reminds me of the time I was driving behind an ambulance. The doors opened, and an ice chest fell out! I pulled over to retrieve it, thinking it was an organ being transported for transplant. Turns out, it was a human foot! I pulled my cell phone out immediately, and called a tow truck!
Here’s a story I saw on Fox News, so I know it’s true:
A mad scientist decided to make a clone of himself. However, the clone didn’t turn out the way he planned – his clone would use vulgar language in public, would make offensive remarks towards women, and was basically a total asshole to be around. So the mad scientist decided to end his experiment, by pushing the clone off a tall bridge.
The scientist got arrested, but the police couldn’t figure out what to charge him with – technically, his “clone” wasn’t human, or at least there was no legal provision to charge him with murdering a human being, or even violating his civil rights. Finally the police decided to charge him with:
I got held up in a big traffic tie-up, I could see people ahead getting out of their cars but could not quite make out what they were doing.
Then, I saw an RCMP officer coming my way, walking between the cars, I asked him what the the problem was.
He explained that the Prime Minister’s motorcade was stopped ahead and Premier Harper was very depressed and was threatening to douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire.
Well, being a concerned citizen and all, I asked the cop if there was anything I could do.
He answered, " Nah, we already collected about 10 galons of fuel, that should do the trick".
A biologist developed a race of genetically engineered dolphins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of seagulls. One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and trap some more. On the way back, he spied a lion asleep on the road. Afraid to wake it, he gingerly stepped over it. Immediately, he was arrested and charged with transporting gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.