Today's stories [8.12.08]

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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside
her car. Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied,
"I knew I should have replaced the battery to this
remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do
you think they (pointing to a distant convenient
store)would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I
dunno. Do you have an alarm too?" I asked. "No, just
this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the
car keys to me. As I took the key and manually
unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive
over there and check about the batteries it's a long
walk.

A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the
time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus
and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

[News of the Weird, 18 May 93, San Jose Mercury News]
A 24-year-old salesman from Hialeah, Fla., was killed near Lantana, Fla.,
in March when his car smashed into a pole in the median strip of
Interstate 95 in the middle of the afternoon.  Police said that the man
was traveling at 80 MPH and, judging by the sales manual that was found
open and clutched to his chest, had been busy reading.

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