Think you're having a bad day?

I received

this e-mail and I just couldn't resist sending it along. It is entitled

"So You Think You're Having a Bad Day?" It was sent to me from

Beverly Copeland through my good friend Jim, my World War II glider researcher.

Check out these funny, funny actual cases:

Fire authorities

in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of forest while assessing

the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full

wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and facemask.

A post-mortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from

massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification.

Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clad diver ended

up in the middle of a forest fire.

It was revealed

that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20

miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire

as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very

large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the

site of the forest fire. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making

like Flipper in the Pacific; the next, he was doing the breaststroke in

a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to

get out of bed.

Still think

you're having a bad day?

A man was working

on his motorcycle on the patio, his wife nearby in the kitchen. While

racing the engine, the motorcycle accidentally slipped into gear. The

man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged along as it burst

through the glass patio doors. His wife, hearing the crash, ran in the

room to find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the shattered

patio door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat on

a fairly large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the

paramedics and escort them to her husband.

While the attendants

were loading her husband, the wife managed to right the motorcycle and

push it outside. She also quickly blotted up the spilled gasoline with

some paper towels and tossed them into the toilet. After being treated

and released, the man returned home, looked at the shattered patio door

and the damage done to his motorcycle. He went into the bathroom and consoled

himself with a cigarette while attending to his business. About to stand,

he flipped the butt between his legs.

The wife, who

was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming.

Finding him lying on the bathroom floor with his trousers blown away and

burns on his buttocks, legs and groin, she once again phoned for an ambulance.

The same paramedic crew was dispatched. As the paramedics carried the

man down the stairs to the ambulance they asked the wife how he had come

to burn himself.

She told them.

They started laughing so hard, one slipped, tipping the stretcher and

dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs, breaking his

arm.

Still having

a bad day? Just remember, it could be worse ...

The average

cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska

was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved

animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause

from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them

both.

Still think

you are having a bad day?

A woman came

home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in

a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards