Sh*t Happens: Regrettable Realities That Really Happened To Unlucky Chumps The World Over

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Synopsis
The lure of the morbid. The fascination of really bad news. The strange thrill of things going spectacularly wrong.

Tragic, sensational, spine-chilling, and addictively entertaining, it’s The Darwin Awards meets The Stupidest Things Ever Said.

In story after story we meet the star-crossed, the extremely unlucky, and the fatally foolish. Sure—it’s grim, sometimes ghastly. But isn’t it nice to know that someone, somewhere, had a worse day than you?

Sh*t happens.

Sometimes it’s natural: A driver goes for the ride of his life when a 100-mph gust blows his truck off the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York. (He survives the steep plunge into the Hudson River.

Sometimes it’s supernatural: The woman who peels an artichoke only to have it explode in her hand.

Short-sighted: A rattlesnake owner kisses his beloved pet, and discovers that the affection isn’t mutual.

Delightful: A tanker truck carrying liquid chocolate splits open in a traffic accident, drawing children from miles around.

Unexpected: A folding bed traps and nearly kills a man.

Heartbreaking: Art restorers accidentally dissolve the ink off a newly discovered Da Vinci drawing.

Gross: From the brain of a man complaining of mental instability, doctors remove a four-inch worm.

And grosser: A diner discovers—in the most revolting way possible—a rodent along with his fried chicken.

And even, seemingly, cosmic justice: An incensed homeowner catches a mouse and decides to teach it a lesson by tying a kerosene-soaked rag to its tail and setting it on fire. The mouse flees; the man’s house burns down.

Copyright:
2006

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
325 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780761171133
Publisher:
Workman Publishing Company
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Copyrighted By:
Debbie Lazarus
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Humor
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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