By: Ed Mills
Re: strange world

From Shooting Times and Cycle World magazine:

A man was motorcycling through the Hungarian countryside when
he came to a railroad just as the crossing gates were coming down.
As he waited, a farmer walked up beside him and tethered a goat
to the crossing-gate arm. A few moments later, a horse-drawn cart
stopped, and then a sports car pulled up.

When the train roared through, the startled horse bit the cyclist
on the arm. The cyclist, angry, punched the horse. The cart driver
jumped down from the cart and scuffled with the cyclist. The horse,
being unaccustomed to this kind of excitement, backed away briskly,
pushing the cart on top of the sports car. At that point, the sports
car driver leaped into the fray.

As the farmer tried to pacify the combatants, the crossing gate went
up and the goat was strangled as it was lifted into the air.

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Another Hungarian decided to end his wife's incessant nagging by giving
her a good scare. He built an elaborate harness to make it look as if
he had hanged himself.

When his wife came home and saw him, she fainted. Hearing the
disturbance, a neighbor came over and, seeing what she thought were two
corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As the neighbor was
leaving with her booty, the outraged (and suspended) man kicked her in
the derriere. She was so surprised that she suffered a massive heart
attack and died. The man was subsequently acquitted of manslaughter;
he and his wife were reconciled.

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A Texas man, filming a documentary on the dangers of low-clearance
overpasses was killed when the truck he was standing on (in the course
of filming) passed under a low-clearance overpass.

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