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As told by Isabel
Espaldon
Here's a story my mom told to me and my friends when I was about
seven years old. You can imagine I was scared to death...
A woman and her boyfriend were on their way home from somewhere
(not important) one night, and suddenly his car ran out of gas.
It was about one in the morning and they were completely alone in
the middle of the nowhere.
The guy stepped out of the car, saying comfortingly to his
girlfriend, "Don't worry, I'll be right back. I'm just going
to go out for some help. Lock the doors, though."
She locked the doors and sat restlessly, waiting for her
boyfriend to come back. Suddenly, she sees a shadow fall across
her lap. She looks up to see... not her boyfriend, but a strange,
crazed looking man. He is swinging something in his right hand.
He sticks his face close to the window and slowly pulls up his
right hand. In it is her boyfriend's decapitated head, twisted
horribly in pain and shock. She shuts her eyes in horror and
tries to make the image go away. When she opens her eyes, the man
is still there, grinning psychotically. He slowly lifts his left
hand, and he is holding her boyfriend's keys. To the car.
Flash Your Headlights and Die!
As told by Paul Hartwell
I heard this one
about a year ago when I was living up in Seattle. The teller
seemed to think it was happening at that time in and around the
Pugetopolis, but that seemed unlikely to me. However, if the
story were told in the context of, say, Los Angeles (or even New
York, Chicago, Detroit, etc.) it would actually seem sort of
plausible. Anyway, here goes:
The story is that a new gang initiation ritual has become
prevalent in our city. The hoodlums pile in a car, at night, and
drive the highways and byways with their lights off. The first
person who 'flashes' them with their lights (in the time-honored
gesture of 'hey, idiot, your lights are off!') becomes their
prey. The gangbangers then pursue the samaritan and the initiate
must gun him or her down without mercy.
Sounds like a myth, right? But do you suppose there is a kernel
of truth to the rumor; that perhaps somewhere at sometime some
thugs did, in fact, use this modus operandi?
Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn On The Light?
As told by
Whorton...
Two dormmates in college were in the same science class. The
teacher had just reminded them about the midterm the next day
when one dormmate let's call her Juli got asked to
this big bash by the hottest guy in school. The other dormmate,
Meg, had pretty much no interest in going and, being a diligent
student, she took notes on what the midterm was about. After the
entire period of flirting with her date, Juli was totally
unprepared for her test, while Meg was completely prepared for a
major study date with her books.
At the end of the day, Juli spent hours getting ready for the
party while Meg started studying. Juli tried to get Meg to go,
but she was insistent that she would study and pass the test. The
girls were rather close and Juli didn't like leaving Meg alone to
be bored while she was out having a blast. Juli finally gave up,
using the excuse that she would cram in homeroom the next day.
Juli went to the party and had the time of her life with her
date. She headed back to the dorm around 2 a.m. and decided not
to wake Meg. She went to bed nervous about the midterm and
decided she would wake up early to ask Meg for help.
She woke up and went to wake Meg at 8AM. Meg was lying on her
stomach, apparently sound asleep. Juli rolled Meg over to reveal
Meg's terrified face. Juli, concerned, turned on the desk lamp.
Meg's study stuff was still open and had blood all over it. Meg
had been slaughtered. Juli, in horror, fell to the floor and
looked up to see, written on the wall in Meg's blood: "Aren't
You Glad You Didn't Turn On The Lights?"
As told by JDS
A man driving home from work decides to stop at a 7-11 for a
coffee. Since he'll only be in the store for a few minutes, he
decides there would be no harm in leaving the engine running. As
the man enters the store he notices that there are a few people
in line, but thinks nothing of the delay.
After buying his coffee, the man returns to the parking lot to
find his car stolen. He had left his wallet in the glove box.
Devastated, he notifies the police, files a report and eventually
returns home to explain to his wife what happened.
A day or so later, the man comes home from work (in his rented
car) only to find his car sitting in the driveway! He quickly
assesses that there is no visible damage, and there is an
envelope sitting on the driver's seat. He opens the envelope and
reads a note which was inside:
"Sir, I apologize from the bottom of my heart for stealing
your car, but I had a medical emergency and had no choice. To
make up for any inconvenience to you, I've left you 4 tickets to
this weekend's
Double Header at Shea Stadium. These are excellent seats and I
hope that it can make up for any trouble I may have caused you or
your family."
Being a big Mets fan, the man is very excited and runs into the
house to tell his wife and 2 sons they all have tickets to the
big game.
The day arrives and the man packs up his family and heads to the
ball game. After the game ends (several hours later) the man and
his family return home to find that they have been robbed. The
entire house is virtually empty!
As it turns out, this was the car thief's plan all along
to get the man's home address, keys, and to get him out of the
house for a few hours. The thief got his address from the
registration in the glove box and had assumed he was a baseball
fan from the
Mets bumper sticker on his car. Pictures in the man's wallet gave away the fact that he had 2 sons and would need 4 tickets in order for the house to be empty.
(Forwarded e-mail message)
Once there was a a
beautiful young girl who lived in a small town just south of
Farmersburg. Her parents had to go to town for a while, so they
left their daughter home alone, but protected by her dog, which
was a very large collie. The parents told the girl to lock all
the windows and doors after they had left. And at about 8:00pm
the parents went to town. So doing what she was told the girl
shut and locked evey window and every door. But there was one
window in the basement that would not close completely.
Trying as best as she could she finally got the window shut, but
it would not lock. So she left the window, and went back
upstairs. But just to make sure that no one could get in, she put
the dead-bolt lock on the basment door.
Then she sat down had some dinner and decided to go to sleep for
the night. Settling down to sleep at about 12:00 she snuggled up
with the dog and fell asleep.
But at one point, she suddenly woke up. She turned and looked at
the clock...it was 2:30. She snuggled down again wondering what
had woken her.....when she heard a noise. It was a dripping
sound. She thought that she had left the water running, and now
it was dripping into the drain of her sink. So thinking it was no
big deal she decided to go back to sleep.
But she felt nervous so she reached her hand over the edge of her
bed, and let the dog lick her hand for reasurance that he would
protect her. Again at about 3:45 she woke up hearing drippping.
She was slightly angry now but went back to sleep anyway. Again
she reached down and let the dog lick her hand. Then she fell
back to sleep.
At 6:52 the girl decided that she had had enough...she got up
just in time to see her parents were pulling up to the house.
"Good,"she thought. "Now somebody can fix the
sink...'cause I know I didn't leave it running." She walked
to the bathroom and there was the dog, skinned and hung up on the
curtain rod. The noise she heard was its blood dripping into a
puddle on the floor. The girl screamed and ran to her bedroom to
get a weapon, incase someone was still in the house.....and there
on the floor, next to her bed she saw a small note, written in
blood, saying: "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO".
Contributed by
Michael Clarke:
If you think you're having a bad day...
Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out
section of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest
fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete
with a dive tank, flippers and face mask.
A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from
burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records
provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about
determining 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
person went for a diving trip off the coast -- some 20 MILES away
from the forest.
The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as
possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large
buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid
filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed
it! One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific,
the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300m in the
air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") of
the fire.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!!
As told by
Autumn Murphy
A man and women went to Las Vegas for their honeymoon, and
checked into a suite at a hotel. When they got to their room they
both detected a bad odor. The husband called down to the front
desk and asked to speak to the manager. He explained that the
room had a very bad odor and they would like another suite. The
manager apologized and told the man that they were all booked
because of a convention. He offered to send them to a restaurant
of their choice for lunch compliments of the hotel and said he
was going to send a maid up to their room to clean and to try and
get rid of the odor.
After a nice lunch the couple went back to their room. When they
walked in they could both still smell the same odor. Again the
husband called the front desk and told the manager that the room
still smelled really bad. The manager told the man that they
would try and find a suite at another hotel. He called every
hotel on the strip, but every hotel was sold out because of the
convention. The manager told the couple that they couldn't find
them a room anywhere, but they would try and clean the room
again. The couple wanted to see the sights and do a little
gambling anyway, so they said they would give them 2 hours to
clean and then they would be back.
When the couple left the manager and all of housekeeping went to
the room to try and find what was making the room smell so bad.
They searched the entire room and found nothing, so the maids
changed the sheets, changed the towels, took down the curtains
and put new ones up, cleaned the carpet and cleaned the suite
again using the strongest cleaning products they had. The couple
came back 2 hours later to find the room still had a bad odor.
The husband was so angry at this point, he decided to find
whatever this smell was himself. So he started tearing the entire
suite apart himself. As he pulled the top mattress off the box
spring he found a dead body of a woman.
As told by Lisa
Foley of Australia
My cousin and his wife lived in Sydney with this huge
doberman in a little apartment off Maroubra Rd. One night they
went out for dinner and a spot of clubbing. By the time they got
home it was late and my cousin was more than a little drunk. They
got in the door and were greeted by the dog choking to death in
the loungeroom.
My cousin just fainted, but his wife rang the vet, who was an old
family friend of hers, and got her to agree to meet her at the
surgery. The wife drives over and drops off the dog, but decides
that she'd better go home and get her hubby into bed.
She gets home and finally slaps my cousin into consciousness, but
he's still drunk. It takes her almost half an hour to get him up
the stairs, and then the phone rings. She's tempted to just leave
it, but she decides that it must be important or they wouldn't be
ringing that late at night. As soon as she picks up the phone,
she hears the vet's voice screaming out:
"Thank God I got you in time! Leave the house! Now! No time
to explain!" Then the vet hangs up.
Because she's such an old family friend, the wife trusts her, and
so she starts getting the hubby down the stairs and out of the
house. By the time they've made it all the way out, the police
are outside. They rush up the front stairs past the couple and
into the house, but my cousin's wife still doesn't have a clue
what's going on.
The vet shows up and says, "Have they got him? Have they got
him?"
"Have they got who?" says the wife, starting to get
really angry.
"Well, I found out what the dog was choking on it was
a human finger."
Just then the police drag out a dirty, stubbly man who is
bleeding profusely from one hand. "Hey sarge," one of
them yells. "We found him in the bedroom."
As told by Emily,
01/15/99...
My great-great grandmother, ill for quite some time, finally
passed away after laying in a coma for several days. My
great-great grandfather was devastated beyond belief as she was
his one true love and they had been married over 50 years. They
were married so long that it seemed as if they knew each other's
innermost thoughts. After the Doctor pronounced her dead, my
great-great Grandfather insisted that she was not. They had to
literally pry him away from his wife's body so they could ready
her for burial.
Now, back in those days they had backyard burial plots and did
not drain the body of its fluids. They simply
prepared a proper coffin and committed the body (in its coffin)
to its permanent resting place. Throughout this process, my
great-great grandfather protested so fiercely that he had to be
sedated and put to bed. His wife was buried and that was that.
That night he woke to a horrific vision of his wife hysterically
trying to scratch her way out of the coffin. He phoned the doctor
immediately and begged to have his wife's body exhumed. The
doctor refused, but my great-great grandfather had this nightmare
every night for a week, each time frantically begging to have his
wife removed from the grave.
Finally the doctor gave in and, together with local authorities,
exhumed the body. The coffin was pried open and to everyone's
horror and amazement, my great-great grandmother's nails were
bent back and there were obvious scratches on the inside of the
coffin.
FWD: Free
Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe (Email message)
My daughter and I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus
Cafe in Dallas & decided to have a small dessert. Because
both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the
"Neiman-Marcus Cookie". It was so excellent that I
asked if they would give me the recipe and the waitress said with
a small frown "I'm afraid not." Well" I said,
"would you let me buy the recipe?"
With a cute smile, she said "YES". I asked how much and
she responded, "Only two fifty, it's a great deal!" I
said with approval, "just add it to my tab".. Thirty
days later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus and
it was $250.00. I looked again and remembered I had only spent
$9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As I glanced
at the bottom of the statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe -
$250.00". That's outrageous!!!
I called Neiman's Accounting Dept. and told them that the
waitress said it was "two-fifty," which clearly does
not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by any
POSSIBLE interpretation of the phrase. Neiman-Marcus refused to
budge.. They would not refund my money, because according to
them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem. You
have already seen the recipe - we absolutely will not refund your
money at this point." I explained to her the criminal
statutes which govern fraud in Texas. I threatened to refer them
to the Better Business Bureau and the State's Attorney General
for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what you
want, we dont care, and we're not refunding your money." I
waited a moment, thinking of how I could get even,or even try to
get any of my money back. I just said, "Okay, you folks got
my $250.00, and now I'm going to have $250.00 worth of fun."
I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover
in the United States with an e-mail account has a $250.00 cookie
recipe from Neiman-Marcus... for free..She replied, "I wish
you wouldn't do this" I said, "Well you should have
thought of that before you ripped me off", and slammed down
the phone on her.. So, here it is!!! I paid $250.00 dollars for
this... I don't want Neiman-Marcus to ever get another penny off
of this recipe....
(Recipe may be halved):
2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal and blend in blender to a
fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix
together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add
chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place
two inches apart on a cookie sheet..Bake for 10 minutes at 375
degrees. Makes 112 cookies.. Have Fun!!!
As told by Emily Dunbar, 03/16/00
This is an old one, but it is one of my favorites. It comes back to haunt me often...
One night a woman went out for drinks with her girlfriends. She left the bar fairly late at night, got in her car and onto the deserted highway. She noticed a lone pair of headlights in her review mirror, approaching at a pace just slightly quicker than hers. As the car pulled up behind her she glanced and saw the turn signal on the car was going to pass when suddenly it swerved back behind her, pulled up dangerously close to her tailgate and the brights flashed.
Now she was getting nervous. The lights dimmed for a moment and then the brights came back on and the car behind her surged forward. The frightened woman struggled to keep her eyes on the road and fought the urge to look at the car behind her. Finally, her exit approached but the car continued to follow, flashing the brights periodically.
Through every stoplight and turn it followed her until she pulled into her driveway. She figured her only hope was to make a mad dash into the house and call the police. As she flew from the car so did the driver in the car behind her and he screamed, "Lock the door and call the police! Call 911!"
When the police arrived the horrible truth was finally revealed to the woman. The man in the car had been trying to save her. As he pulled up behind her and his headlights illuminated her car, he saw the silhouette of a man with a butcher knife rising up from the back seat to stab her, so he flashed his brights and the figure crouched back down.
The moral of the story: Check the back seat!
Stolen Kidneys!
Contributed by Barbara R., (E-mail Message) - 1997
Subject: Crime against travelers
A business traveler goes to a bar after a long day at work, and while sitting there, meets a fairly attractive young woman and they hit it off.
Next thing he knows, he wakes up in a strange hotel room, he's sitting in a tub full of ice. Written in lipstick on the mirror is a note: "call 911, or you will die".
He calls 911 on the phone he sees sitting on a small table, next to the tub. He tells the 911 operator his story; she already knows where he's going with this and in fact has already called for paramedics to race to his hotel room.
She tells him to very carefully reach around and feel if there is a small tube protruding from his lower back. He does and tells her he can feel the small tube.
The operator tells him to remain calm, stay in the tub and not to move, the paramedics are on their way. Apparently this is another crime of organ harvesting....this time, havesting of the kidneys. Because of the demand for organ transplants and the shortage of organs, there's now a flourishing black market in organ harvesting.
Apparently, this traveler is now on life support awaiting his own kidney transplant. Lucky for him though, the black market is thriving. He probably won't have to wait too long for another traveler to meet a nice looking young woman in a bar so he can have his kidneys.
The Fatal Hair-do
As told by Joel Harvey, 02/14/99...
There's this guy who you might have seen walking around town with two huge dreadlocks (one on each side of his head). One day he decides to get them cut off. So he's off to the hair dresser, and of course they can't get the clippers through his hair, so out come the biggest pair of scissors you've ever seen.
They start to hack into one of the dreads and get about halfway through when he starts scremming and runs out of the shop. His girlfriend finds him dead in their flat the next day.
The coroner found that a nest of red-backed spiders had moved into his hair and started biting him when the scissors cut the nest to bits.
The Hairy-Armed Hitchhiker
As told by Huw Llewelyn-Jones of York, UK, 12/09/98...
I first heard this story in 1980 in North Wales. I believed it until I was told it again a matter of days later. It is usually told as happening to a friend or relative...
A young woman returns to her car from a day's shopping. She had parked her car in the town's multi-storey car park.
As she approaches the car she notices someone sitting in the back seat. She cautiously checks the registration plate to see if it is indeed her car, as it is a popular model and colour. The car is indeed hers, and as she gets closer she sees that it's an old woman sitting in the back seat.
She asks the woman how and why she is sitting in her car.
The old woman replies that she had been shopping with her son and family but felt unwell and returned to the car to rest. She obviously had mistaken the young woman's car for her son's, as it was the same model and colour. The old woman then asks to be driven to a hospital, as she is still feeling unwell. The young woman agrees.
As she gets into the driver's seat something makes her very nervous about the stiuation and she asks the old woman if she is feeling well enough to direct her as she reverses the car out of the parking place. The old woman agrees, gets out of the car and proceeds to direct the reversing manoeuvre.
As soon as the young woman has the car out of the parking space she speeds out of the car park, leaving the old woman stranded. She then drives straight to the nearest police station and reports the incident.
A police officer then searched the car and found an axe concealed under the driver's seat.
The young woman had had a lucky escape!
The Mexican Pet
As told by Lorraine Lovely...
This story was told to my husband by one of the truck drivers at work. It is supposed to be true, but then someone told him that he found it on the internet. I have not been able to confirm it....
The truck driver's wife works in Boston on the docks where this little white dog comes around at noon and everyone feeds it a little something from their lunch. The wife went home and asked her husband if he would mind if she got a dog. She told him about the stray that everyone has been feeding. He said that he didn't think she wanted a dog. She said it would be nice company since he was away from home a lot, so he agreed.
She went to work the next day and the dog did not show up, but the next day the dog was there. Everyone gave him something to eat and she coaxed the dog into her car and brought him home. She washed, cleaned and bathed him, and the dog slept with her the bed that night and the next night.
The next day she came home from work and found the dog had eaten her cat. The only thing left of the cat was the skull. There was no blood anywhere. She called the veterinarian who told her to bring the dog right in. He could not do anything for the cat, but the bones from the cat could do injury to the dog.
She brought the dog right in and was in the waiting room when the nurse (assistant) asked her to step into one of the rooms immediately!! When she got in the room the Vet asked her where she got the dog and she told her it was a stray she found where she works near the docks in Boston.
The vet told her had to kill it immediately that it was not a dog, but a 40-pound Cambodian rat that came in from one of the ships in the harbor. The rat was so big that it looked liked a small dog with a little snub tail.
The Hairy-Armed Hitchhiker
As told by Huw Llewelyn-Jones of York, UK, 12/09/98...
I first heard this story in 1980 in North Wales. I believed it until I was told it again a matter of days later. It is usually told as happening to a friend or relative...
A young woman returns to her car from a day's shopping. She had parked her car in the town's multi-storey car park.
As she approaches the car she notices someone sitting in the back seat. She cautiously checks the registration plate to see if it is indeed her car, as it is a popular model and colour. The car is indeed hers, and as she gets closer she sees that it's an old woman sitting in the back seat.
She asks the woman how and why she is sitting in her car.
The old woman replies that she had been shopping with her son and family but felt unwell and returned to the car to rest. She obviously had mistaken the young woman's car for her son's, as it was the same model and colour. The old woman then asks to be driven to a hospital, as she is still feeling unwell. The young woman agrees.
As she gets into the driver's seat something makes her very nervous about the stiuation and she asks the old woman if she is feeling well enough to direct her as she reverses the car out of the parking place. The old woman agrees, gets out of the car and proceeds to direct the reversing manoeuvre.
As soon as the young woman has the car out of the parking space she speeds out of the car park, leaving the old woman stranded. She then drives straight to the nearest police station and reports the incident.
A police officer then searched the car and found an axe concealed under the driver's seat.
The young woman had had a lucky escape!
The Hare Dryer
As told by Sonja Farmer of New Zealand...
I was told this by my brother-in-law. He said it happened to the relative of someone at his work. I saw the exact same story a year later in an Australian tabloid magazine.
A man walked into his garden one day to find his dog with a piece of dirty fur in its mouth. Examination proved that the dirty piece of fur was actually a prize rabbit belonging to the neighbour. It was very dead, although no obvious injury could be seen.
The man was horrified and felt terrible. He took the rabbit inside, shampooed and blow dried it, then quickly snuck next door to put it back in the hutch before the neighbour got home.
A few days went by and he heard nothing. Then on the weekend he was talking over the fence to his neighbour, who he said that a strange thing had happened to him that week. When he came home from work one night he found his prize rabbit dead in its hutch.
"Oh, no," says the man. "How awful!"
"Thats not the strange part," says the neighbour. "Whats weird is that it had died earlier that morning and I buried it before going to work!"
The Knife in the Briefcase
As told by Ann MacDonald, 07/13/00...
One summer day in Southampton, New York, a woman pulled into a gas station. As the attendant pumped gas, the woman told the attendant she was in a hurry to pick up her daughter who had just finished an art class in East Hampton.
A very well dressed man walked over to her car, and started talking to her. He explained that his rental car had died, and he needed a ride to East Hampton for an appointment. She said that she would be happy to give him a ride. He put his briefcase in the backseat and said he was going to the men's room quickly.
The woman looked at her watch, and suddenly panicked. She drove off quickly, having forgotten that the man was coming back to the car for a ride.
She thought nothing of him again until she and her daughter pulled into the driveway. She saw his briefcase and realized she had forgotten him! She opened the briefcase looking for some form of identifcation so she could notify him about his belongings.
Inside she found nothing but a knife and a roll of duct tape!
The Dead Children
A woman had three small children: two-year old twins (a boy and a girl) and a newborn baby. One day she was giving the little girl a bath, while the little boy was supposed to look after the baby and call her if the baby should start crying. The boy discovered the soft spot on the baby's head where the skull hadn't quite yet grown together. He pushed against the spot, and by accident pushed his finger into the baby's head. The baby died right there. The boy got such a fright that he ran out of the house, into the road, where a truck ran him over.
The mother heard the commotion outside, and went to see what the matter was. Of course she went into hysterics over the boy's death, but then when she returned to the house, she found that the little girl, who had been left unattended in the bath, had drowned. Some minutes later, she also found the dead baby...
Be careful the next time you go to a cinema. These people could be anywhere!! An experience of a friend of my brother's wife left me speechless. Please do send this out to everyone you know. This incident occurred in Bombay's Metro cinema (Among the best in town). They were a group of 6-7 College girls & they went to the theater to see a movie. During the show one of the girls felt a slight pinprick but did not pay much attention to it.
After sometime that place began to itch. So she scratched herself and then saw a bit of blood on her hands. She assumed that she had caused it. At the end of the show, her friend noticed a sticker on her dress and read the caption. It read "Welcome to the world of AIDS". She tried to pass it off as a practical joke but when she went for a blood test a couple of weeks later (just to be sure), she found herself HIV Positive.
When she complained to the cops, they mentioned that her story was one of the many such cases they had received. It seems the operator uses a syringe to transfer a bit of his/her infected blood to the person sitting ahead of him/her. A horrible experience for the victim as also the family & friends. The WORST bit is that the person who does it gains NOTHING where as the victim loses EVERYTHING. So, be careful...
A rich elderly lady from Harrogate was taking her pet poodle for a walk when they were caught in a downpour. Rushing back inside, fretful for her pampered pet, she was desperate to dry him out and warm him up as soon as possible. So she took him straight into the kitchen, opened the door of her daughter's new microwave cooker for the first time, and thrust him in, moving the dial to a moderate setting. She patted his head and carefully closed the door with a click.
The old lady was still drying her hair when the cooked dog exploded, ripping the door off the microwave.
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