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Wow... that is amazing!

#XXIV Doze weren’t hepatitis shots. A man who claimed to be a public health official telephoned the post office in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He said a doctor was coming to vaccinate the employees against type-B hepatitis, a disease sweeping the area.
The “doctor” arrived in a hospital uniform. He told the seven employees that the shots might cause a brief spell of sleepiness. Hadn’t they better close the post office for a few minutes?
The employees did as he advised and dozed off. When they woke up one and a half hours later, the “doctor” and all the cash—$5,526—were gone.

These are absolutely unreal...

I know you're exactly right Sammy.

-- Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:29 pm --

I just love reading these to make fun of them

Make fun of my...? Maybe I should make them subscription.

Oh, man that is sad. Taiwan is a developing country. If those doctors and nurses don't have enough money for food, they all die. That's what happens here... it's sad.

I don't make fun, I absolutely love these. I'm just saying that as an awe-struck reaction to such people. What you thought I meant ISN'T what I meant, alright?

Yeah, that's how I was too.

#XXV Sympathetic response. An English hospital loaned teddy bears to small children during their stay. The stuffed animals made too big a hit. They were smuggled home at the rate of ten a month.
The nurses halted the practice by putting bandages on the bears. The children thought they were sick and needed to be kept in the hospital.

Awww, thats a sweet idea to stop the smuggling!

#XXVI Prime time. Japanese police arrested Saburo Yoshida for making 1,400 long-distance telephone calls to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s private office.
Yoshida called from a pay phone in Innoshima, 400 miles west of Tokyo, up to 100 times a day over a period of four months.
The calls lasted about three seconds because Yoshida could afford to deposit only one ten-yen (four cents) coin. He never spoke.
“My salary is low,” explained Yoshida, a high school English teacher. “And I don’t have any friends. Anyway, I thought I’d call the Prime Minister and annoy him.”

OMW!! That is hilarious!! The crazy and funny things people do

#XXVII Skimming the cream. Thieves pried off the lid of the safe in the Tinee Giant Market in Portsmouth, Virginia. The opening, alas, was too small for them to reach in and grab the money.
Their solution to the problem was all wet.
They dumped ten gallons of milk into the safe. The paper money floated within easy reach.

Why milk?

I suppose it's all they could get their hands on.
Also it seems it might damage the money less.

Wow. Just wow.

#XXVIII You can’t see the doctor without an appointment. A burglar mistakenly sawed his way into Dr. Harley Kojak’s office in Durham, North Carolina, and apologized in a note left on the doctor’s desk.
“Sorry, wrong building, Doc.”
Nothing, not even an aspirin, was missing.

Wow, just wow! That's priceless!

Oh. My. Word. That is incredible!

#XXIX Stepping stones. Harlan Orlando stole 175 diamonds worth $550,000 from a Nashville jewelry store. He hid them in a pair of old shoes, which he left with his father while he went on a fishing trip.
In his absence, his father gave some old clothing, including the shoes, to a child care center. The children played with the jewels for a week without knowing they were real.
Then Orlando appeared at the center. He demanded the jewels back so furiously that a teacher became suspicious. She called the police.
Now, please, don’t sit there mumbling, “If the shoe fits, wear it.”