Another classic ! These are meant to be real... My favourite is No 5 (I'm sure they are meant to shoot the bad guys !)
1- Debby Mills-Newbroughton, 99 years old, was killed as she crossed the road. She was to turn 100 the next day, but crossing the road with her daughter to go to her own birthday party her wheel chair was hit by the truck delivering her birthday cake.
2- PeterStone, 42 years old, is murdered by his 8 year old daughter, who he had just sent to her room with no dinner. Young Samantha Stone felt that if she couldn't have dinner no one should, and she promptly inserted 72 rat poison tablets into her fathers coffee as he prepared dinner. The victim took one sip and promptly collapsed. Samantha Stone was given a suspended sentences as the judge felt she didn't realise what she was doing, until she tried to poison her mother using the same method one month later.
3- David Danil, 17 years old, was killed by his girl friend after he attempted to have his way with her. His unwelcome advance was met with double-barrelled shotgun. Charla's (the girlfriends') father had given it to her an hour before the date started, just in case.
4- Javier Halos, 27 years old, was killed by his landlord for failing to pay his rent for 8 years. The landlord, Kirk Weston, clubbed the victim to death with a toilet seat after he realised just how long it had been since Mr Halos paid his rent.
5- Megan Fry, 44 years old, is killed by 14 state troopers after she wandered onto a live firing, fake town, simulation. Seeing all the troopers walking slowly down the street Megan Fry had jumped out in front of them and yelled Boo!. The troopers, thinking she was a pop up target, fired 67 shots between them, over 40 of them hitting the target. She just looked like a very real looking target, one of the troopers stated in his report.
6- Julia Smeeth, 20 years old, was killed by her brother Michael because she talked on the phone too long, Michael clubbed his sister to death with a cordless phone, then stabbed her several times with the broken arial.
7- Helena Simms, Wife to the famous American nuclear scientist Harold Simms was killed by her husband after she had an affair with the neighbour. Over a period of 3 months Harold substituted Helena's eye shadow with a Uranium composite that was highly radioactive, until she died of radiation poisoning. Although she suffered many symptoms, including total hair loss, skin welts, blindness, extreme nausea and even had an ear lobe drop off, the victim never attended a doctor's surgery or hospital for a check up.
8- Military Sergeant John Joe Winter killed his two timing wife by loading her car with Trintynitrate explosive (similar to C4). The Ford Taurus she was driving was filled with 750 kgs of explosive, forming a force twice as powerful as the Oklahoma Bombing. The explosion was heard by several persons some up to 14kilometers away. No trace of the car or the victim were ever found, only a 55meter deep crater, and 500m of missing road.
9- Patty Winter, 35 years old, was killed by her neighbour in the early hours of a Sunday morning. Her neighbour, Falt Hame, for years had a mounted F4 phantom jet engine in his rear yard. He would fire the jet engine, aimed at an empty block at the back of his property. Patty Winter would constantly complain to the local sheriff's officers about the noise and the potential risk of fire. Mr Hame was served with a notice to remove the engine immediately. Not liking this he invited Miss Winter over for a cup of coffee and a chat about the whole situation. What Winter didn't know was that he had changed the position of the engine, as she walked into the yard he activated it, hitting her with a blast of 5,000 degrees, killing her instantly, and forever burning her outline into the driveway.
10- Conrad Middleton, 26 years old, was killed by his twin brother Brian after a disagreement over who should take the family home after their parents' passed away. Conrad had a nasal problem, and had no sense of smell. After the argument Brian stormed out of the house, then snuck back later, and turned on the 3 gas taps in the house, filling it with gas. He then left out a box of cigars, a lighter and a note saying, Sorry for the spree, have a puff on me, Brian. Conrad promptly lit a cigar, destroying the house, and himself in the process.
Errr, here's ten more
http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/fbitop20.asp
Substitute does not mean replace.
Another reason to loathe team sport, I see. But in the illiteracy above, murder is not treated as a sport, doubtless by some oversight.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 June 2016, 04:01:07 AM
Substitute does not mean replace.
Simple Definition of
substitute: to put or use (someone or something) in place of someone or something else.
: to do the job of someone else or serve the function of something else.
:
to replace (one person or thing) with another. (MY EMPHASIS)
Definition by Merriam-Webster
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substitute
I'll continue this if I can have a bona fide assurance that the meaning of the terms transitive verb and intransitive verb are clear to everyone in the ring. The terms preposition and reflexive may have some relevance.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 June 2016, 10:32:36 AM
I'll continue this if I can have a bona fide assurance that the meaning of the terms transitive verb and intransitive verb are clear to everyone in the ring. The terms preposition and reflexive may have some relevance.
Absolutely, providing we are completely clear that a language only exists as common usage and that how a word was used yesterday, how it will be used tomorrow or how it is used elsewhere are of no significance provided the target audience understands the meaning of the words used.
In other words....
Wicked! Sick!
MEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
IanS :d
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 June 2016, 11:06:02 AM
Absolutely, providing we are completely clear that a language only exists as common usage and that how a word was used yesterday, how it will be used tomorrow or how it is used elsewhere are of no significance provided the target audience understands the meaning of the words used.
Add in Reader Response theories that in the extreme throw out all the rules.
As to Snopes -
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?