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Subject: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: sian, west wales Date: 31 Jan 08 - 08:08 AM Last year, a young friend of mine was mugged for his laptop. Some yoof ('youth') rode up to him on a bicycle, punched him in the face, and took off with the 'puter. Goes without saying, pretty much, that the kid was never caught nor the computer ever returned. Anyhoo ... vengence is mine sayeth the Lord, and all that ... So, my ma was on the phone last night from Canada. Her next door neighbour called 'round in a fit of the giggles. The neighbour's son had told her that he has a friend in Montreal to which the following happened: This friend was dogsitting for another friend and the dog died. So she had to get the body to the vet's for disposal, but she doesn't have a car. So she packed it in a large suitcase with wheels and got is as far as the bus stop, but was having problems actually hoisting it up onto the bus. So some guy also waiting for the bus says something like, 'Good grief. What ya got in that thing?' and she wasn't going to tell him it was a dead dog so she said it was a bunch of books, papers and her laptop. So he tells her to get up into the bus and he'll hoist it up for her. So she does. And he runs off with the suitcase. And that's pretty much where the story ends. OK - it might be an urban myth but I think I shall clasp it to my bosom as god's own truth and consider it some sort of karma at work. If I were a writer-of-funny-songs, there would probably be a funny song in all that. So, what goes around does occasionally come around. Any more examples? sian |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Beer Date: 31 Jan 08 - 08:24 AM This story should have made the local news. Thanks for sharing. Beer (adrien) Montreal area |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Rapparee Date: 31 Jan 08 - 09:00 AM Oh, it's an urban legend all right. Been around for years, including one where a car is stolen with the corpse of granny tied to the roof rack. I've run across another where a man is taking a stool sample to the doctor and the package is stolen. Still, it fits in with our sense of poetic justice and we really kinda wish it would, or would have, happened. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Beer Date: 31 Jan 08 - 09:52 AM Got fished in on this one I guess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: sian, west wales Date: 31 Jan 08 - 09:59 AM Don't see why it couldn't 've happened though ... Next time I see the neighbour's son, I'll quiz him a bit. sian still believing |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Liz the Squeak Date: 31 Jan 08 - 10:23 AM I know a young hospital technician who got so sick of having her purse stolen, she took to carrying all her valuables in a bright yellow hazmat bag with 'stool samples' writ large upon it. No-one ever stole her purse again. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: manitas_at_work Date: 31 Jan 08 - 10:38 AM When our car was broken into they took the bag containing Phoebe's dirty nappies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: redsnapper Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:23 AM This is true... A couple I know were unsuccessfully trying to conceive. As part of the medical follow-up he had to provide a semen sample and the hospital laboratory suggested it be kept at body temperature before being brought in. So he placed the provided container and its fresh contents for safe keeping in the kettle which still had some warm water in it. Needless to say, while he wasn't looking, his wife decided to fill up and boil the kettle for a cup of tea without noticing its new contents and while he was away it cooled down again. My friend later received a very worried phone call from the hospital... RS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:40 AM Well...at least the thief go a suitcase for his troubles.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 31 Jan 08 - 12:15 PM There's a lesson here. If you want to avoid being victimized by a snatch-thief, put your valuables in a black plastic garbage bag and carry it at arm's length while making a very sour face. The thief will think it's a bag of over-ripe deer entrails and leave you alone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Metchosin Date: 31 Jan 08 - 12:47 PM Hmm....plastic garbage bags.... sort of reminds me of this |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Beer Date: 31 Jan 08 - 01:33 PM Lol Metchosin Beer (adrien) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: fat B****rd Date: 31 Jan 08 - 03:58 PM I still love the (apparently) true story of the burglars who snorted the dogs ashes thinkin it was cocaine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What goes 'round comes 'round From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:27 PM Many years ago I read an item about a very civic-minded woman who scooped up her dog's poop into a brown bag in the days long before pooper-scooping was even thought of. Fortunately the used brown bag was what the mugger took! I hope it wasn't an urban legend, but I'm not going to look on snopes to disprove my favourite Karma story. sandra |
