News of the disturbing and the entertaining
03/16/09
In some news highlights you may have missed, Reuters has provided one of the most disturbing and unintentionally funny ledes you've ever read:
BEIJING (Reuters) - Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.
I have a funny feeling that laughter was not the emotion attempting to be elicited by this story.
In other news, a vivid picture is painted here in what would otherwise be a dull story about a fire at a gas station:
Fire Chief Craig A. Pedercini said a clerk at the store was waiting on a customer when he looked across the store and saw the potato chip rack engulfed in flames.
In my mind, I have the image of the clerk leaping from behind the counter for the fire extinguisher, screaming "NO!!!! THE DORITOS!!!! SAVE THE LAYS!!!!!"
Priceless.