Thread: Weird True Facts

YEP, HE'S HAD 'HANDS ON' EXPERIENCE WITH LITTLE CHILDREN

The British ambassador to the United States received a request in 1995 from Michael Jackson for British knighthood. When asked why he should be knighted, Mr. Jackson's representatives replied, "for his work with little children."

HE LOST HIS HEAD OVER GOOD MANNERS

James Chenault, age fifty-four, boarded an elevator at the Kingsbridge Welfare Center in the Bronx, New York. After bucking hard, then suddenly rising to the second floor, the elevator's door opened and Mr. Chenault made the gentlemanly gesture of holding it open with his body half-in and half-out for others to exit. That's when the elevator suddenly jerked upward, decapitated him. His head, still wearing headphones, fell back into the elevator with the three remaining passengers.

THREE GREAT QUOTES FROM THREE GREAT MINDS

(1) "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (2) "In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt (3) "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." - Thomas Alva Edison, concerning the light bulb.

HE DIED CLOWNING AROUND WITH AN ELEPHANT, KINDA

Marlon Pistol was a one-man clown show, entertaining mostly at children's birthday parties. One day, as he drove to a party along a California highway, the 20 foot balloon elephant he had folded on his car's back seat began to inflate. It filled the cab almost instantly, causing Pistol to crash, killing him.



THESE CRABS AREN'T FOUND IN MOST SEAFOOD RESTAURANTS

The origin of the phrase "examine with a fine-tooth comb" began before ointments were availability for treating body lice. Back then, a fine-toothed comb was required to part body hair enough for sufferers to see and pull off these offensive blood-suckers. In the old song Won't you come home, Bill Bailey? and the words "I threw you out.... with nothin' but a fine tooth comb", insinuates this rejected fellow had genital crabs...

WONDER WHAT MADE THIS INELIGIBLE ELIGIBLE?

The Dallas Morning News reported December 28, 2005, 11-year Dallas Police veteran Ranson Finches, 37, had been arrested for assaulting his wife. Earlier that year, Officer Finches was suspended five days for being discourteous. He'd also been cited in the past for sleeping on duty, insubordination, interfering with process, filing a false report or citation, profane language and violating off-duty work policy. He quit in 1999, and was ineligible for rehire. In 2001, however, Dallas Police Chief Terrell Bolton rehire him.

IMPROVED AIM WITHOUT PUTTING A SCOPE ON YOUR RIFLE

In 1999, maintenance workers at Amsterdam International Airport etched the outline of a housefly inside, and near the drain, of each and all urinals in that facilities' men's rooms. And, early observations, indicated these 'bulls-eye' targets had reduced "urinal floor splatters and spillage" by 80%.

NOW, HE CAN TAKE ANGER-MANAGEMENT COURSES FOR 20 YEARS

Arthur Roberts, a Brisbane, Australia, accountant, had a bad temper. One day, after accidentally erasing his company's sales figures from his computer, Roberts took the machine and flung it through a glass window of his high-rise office. After falling several stories, the computer landed on pedestrian Peter Mullins, killing him. Mr. Roberts was soon arrested on a manslaughter charge.

I have to ask Andy... do you have the true fact encyclopedia/??? :huh:

No Tim LOL

I have a friend who sends me these from America all i do is copy & paste.
If i find ones that are silly or down right stupid i'll just post the ones i think
are good enough for the Forum.:yes:

PERHAPS HE'D DO BETTER AT HOLDUPS,... OR TYING HIS SHOES?

When Carlos Carrasco, 24, broke through the roof of a San Antonio, Texas, liquor store in 1992, he was already so drunk he cut his hand badly crawling down through the hole. Once on the floor, he tried throwing whisky bottles up through the hole in the roof, but they fell back and broke at his feet. Next, he tried crawling back up through the hole, but lost his grip, and landed back on the floor on the broken glass, cutting himself on both hands and arms. Finally, on his next try he did pull himself up through the hole, only to have his wallet, containing all his ID, fall back inside. After police arrived, they found Carrasco's wallet and tracked a trail of blood several hundred feet right to his door.

SHE'D STOLEN HIS HEART, BUT HE'D STOLEN SOMETHING ELSE

A Tennessee man, Winston Swaggerty, 32, wanted to get married as publicly as possible, so he and his lovely bride held their wedding on the lawn of the Newport County Courthouse. When the preacher declared, "If any man knows reason this couple should not be united, let him speak now or......." that's when a deputy sheriff recognized Mr. Swaggerty, walked up and handcuffed him on an outstanding theft warrant.

A SQUIRRELLY WAY TO DIE

Builder Seagan Dawe, 61, was working high atop a ladder in Quinton, Birmingham, England, when worker Patrick Dowling heard him shout, "Get away!" "Get away!", before falling to his death. A squirrel had leapt from a gutter and bitten Mr. Dawe on the face.

BET THIS ATTORNEY STILL CRIED ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK

Prosecutors in the murder case of Cleophus Prince, Jr., 26, showed a videotape of the victim to emphasize the tragedy of her death. Among the people in the courtroom overcome by emotion while watching the tape was Prince's attorney, whose loud sobbing prompted the judge to call a recess. (The jury later sentenced Prince to be executed.)

JUST IN CASE YOU EVER WONDERED

The word ghetto goes back to the 16th century. Around 1516 the city leaders of Venice, Italy, decreed all Jewish citizens must leave that city and take up residences on the isle of Geto. As time went by, the idea to sequester those of the Jewish belief caught on all over Europe. Even though today's ghettos segregate people by ethnicity and income, back then it meant a Jewish section of a community.

TO HELL, YOU SAY

You've heard the word pandemonium, but what does it really mean? That word's first known usage was in the 17th Century by English author John Milton (1608-1674) in his classic Paradise Lost. It is where Satan plans his awful deeds. Pandemonium is literally the capital of Hell itself.

HE MADE HIS FORTUNE IN INFALLIBLE FOIL

Nephew of cigarette giant R.J. Reynolds, Richard Reynolds, spent 10 years working for his uncle's company, then went off on his own in 1912 to start U.S Foil Company. It sold the packaging material needed by his uncle to package his cigarettes. Then, in the mid-1930s, learning of a new process that made foil from aluminum, the younger Reynolds invested heavily in equipment and began selling Reynolds Wrap.

WONDER IF HE PAUSED FOR COMMERCIALS?

On April 7, 1927 an audience in New York City watched while the image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover was transmitted live from Washington. This was the very first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

FAME, BUT AT WHAT A PRICE

Judy Garland, a top film actress known for playing many parts, is probably best remembered as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Already 16, she was playing the part of an 11-year-old girl. So, to make her looking younger, MGM pasted her breasts flat on her chest with tape. Their constant attempts to keep Garland slim with diet and drugs shortened her life. She passed away in June of 1969, at the age of 47.

HUH? HE GOT EVEN BY FREEZING HIMSELF TO DEATH

Determined to cast the final insult, Cory Quinn of Sydney, Australia, committed suicide by locking himself inside his estranged wife's walk-in freezer, while she was away on vacation. The note he left for the 280-pound woman read: "Gorge on this, you fat pig!"

HE SHOULD'VE CHANGED HIS NAME TO MR. DRUNK

In April of 1994, after spending all his money on liquor, John Smart of Sunderland, England, hated to go home to his wife and kids broke, so he attempted to break a store window to rob his money back. Problem was, staggering around in the dark, Mr. Smart found nothing to break the window, so he removed a manhole cover, raised it over his head and..... losing his balance... fell into the hole he had just uncovered. Cut, bruised, and dripping sewage water, he was arrested while crawling home.

THEY'RE "NEEDLING" MINORITIES MORE OFTEN IN TEXAS

April 11, 2009, Diane Jennings, staff writer for The Dallas Morning News, told of Andre Thomas, who, in 2004, murdered his wife and two children, before removing their three hearts, then stuffing them into his pockets. Arrested, and declared sane, Thomas was awaiting trial on capital murder charges, when he gouged out his right eye. Next, found guilty and sentenced to lethel injection, he gouged-out his left eye, and ate it. This caused a judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to write, "Thomas is "clearly 'crazy,' but he is also sane under Texas law." (FYI: Texas performed 18 of 37 executions carried out in the U.S. in 2008. In 2009, Texas has scheduled, so far, 11 executions; all 11 are either Hispanic or African American.)

WONDER: WAS IT THE SOUND, OR SMELL, THAT OFFENDED HIM?

On April 9, 2009, an Associated Press news item from Texas told of Juan Antonio Salano Castellano, 35, and Jose Braule Ramirez, 33, both visiting Waco from Houston. They were sharing a motel room with 3 other men, when castellano interrupted the evening meal with a round of flatulence (i.e. broke-wind). This enraged Ramirez so much, he took his knife and stabbed Castellano in the chest. (FYI: He did live over it.)

"YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT,..OR, SHOOT US"

After Kentuckian Michael Schmitz was arrested for public intoxication, he sued police for $1.9 million, saying their lax attitude had placed themselves and himself in great danger. He claimed when the officers were unable to operate his SKS assault rifle, they gave it back to him, with instructions to remove the clip, which held 27 live rounds. Schmitz said his intoxication and anger almost made him a murderer.