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They say that the truth is often stranger
than fiction. It would seem that there have been many
examples of this throughout modern times. Some are more
memorable than others.
Here is a selection of true tales, all of them from
1991, sure to bemuse.
In January 1991 in Indonesian man was arrested for selling
"magic pencils" to students. It was claimed
the pencils would send electronic signals that confused
the computer marking system and thus ensured that they
would pass. He sold the pencils for about 300 dollars.
Many of the students complained because the pencil magic
did not work!
Three months later in Bangladesh a cyclone had swept
through a coastal village. The waves had washed a young
child out to sea. Fearing the worst, rescuers were amazed
to see the boy, being held above the water, in the mouth
of a dolphin. The dolphin returned him to shore. The
boy was unharmed, apart from leg injuries sustained
from the dolphins grip.
Also in the same year but the following month, in Poland,
at a local election, one candidate decided to vote for
his opponent. This magnanimous act costs him his seat.
Of all the 595 electors he had been the only one to
vote and so his opponent got the seat!
Meanwhile, in Colorado, America, a man was sued for
threatening a woman. She worked as a waitress and had
mistakenly forgotten his order of an omelet. Infuriated
the man had screamed: "I will crush you like an
egg! " at the waitress. The judge ruled that although
this was a ridiculous threat - because humans have neither
shell nor yolk - it was said violently enough to be
traumatic and awarded the woman 12,000 dollars.
The next month, in Victoria Harbour, Australia, many
townsfolk complained about a pod of whales. The whales
had taken to sleeping in the shallow water near the
beach. The locals could not sleep because the whales
snored so loudly!
Now I think you will agree there are some pretty strange
things going on . . .
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