Strangest Local News in Recent Memory

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Guy attempting Suicide to be charged with Homicide

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Lapulapu City, Philippines

A man attempted to take his life by jumping of the Lapu Lapu bridge late yesterday evening. He landed on a fisherman who was night fishing in his small outrigger canoe. The fisherman was killed by the impact. The jumper survived.

This guy gets my vote for loser of the century.
 
This news illustrates very well how thin the separation between tragedy and comedy in our daily lives, is... I must admit that it elicited a chuckle from me ..Until I remembered the loss of an innocent's life and the despair that would push a person to commit suicide in the first place :(
 
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Boy, tell me about it Frantz. I might have had sympathy for the jumper if he hadn't landed on the poor fisherman. Man what are the odds of this happening!
 
The fisherman was murdering fish. The Fish Gods took revenge.
 
If you wanna kill yourself, go deep into the jungle where no man has ever been before,
and jump off of the highest and deadliest cliff. :b

Leave no stone unturned. Go with a splash! :b
 
Guy attempting Suicide to be charged with Homicide

Say what?

Lapulapu City, Philippines

A man attempted to take his life by jumping of the Lapu Lapu bridge late yesterday evening. He landed on a fisherman who was night fishing in his small outrigger canoe. The fisherman was killed by the impact. The jumper survived.

This guy gets my vote for loser of the century.

The guy who wanted to commit suicide-his time wasn't up yet. The fisherman he landed on-his time was up.
 
And Jack, how is the Chinese and Philippine standoff going?
 
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We have as good a chance of winning that one as the fisherman in the canoe.
 
Last I knew, the Chinese have two surveillance boats holding off your largest naval ship and another smaller one. No one has blinked yet that I know of.
 
Our boys are brave Mark but without ship to ship missiles.............
 
Jack-I know. The ship I referred to as being the biggest ship in your Navy is the one we just sold to the Philippines. It wasn't even a Navy ship, it was a retired Coast Guard cutter. The Philippine Navy needs to modernize big time. China is.
 
Jack-I know. The ship I referred to as being the biggest ship in your Navy is the one we just sold to the Philippines. It wasn't even a Navy ship, it was a retired Coast Guard cutter. The Philippine Navy needs to modernize big time. China is.

No way we could keep up even if we tried Mark. The win-win situation is joint exploration. Sadly there are too many players to get a clear consensus among the nations. :(
 
That and the fact that China is claiming territory on the shores of other countries that no one else in the world is recognizing. China is the big, bad bully in the neighborhood. Give the Philippines credit, they are challenging the bully right now.
 
That and the fact that China is claiming territory on the shores of other countries that no one else in the world is recognizing. China is the big, bad bully in the neighborhood. Give the Philippines credit, they are challenging the bully right now.

Isn't it always about oil?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/w...ution-sought-in-south-china-sea-standoff.html

Somewhere saw a report that China is putting their flag on every piece of rock and even using underwater buoys to mark sites. But claiming it dating back to the 13th century? Then the American Indians could claim the US!
 
Isn't it always about oil?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/w...ution-sought-in-south-china-sea-standoff.html

Somewhere saw a report that China is putting their flag on every piece of rock and even using underwater buoys to mark sites. But claiming it dating back to the 13th century? Then the American Indians could claim the US!

A place we would rather not go to.. because the American "Indians" could rightfully claim the US... let's leave it at that .. it is IMHO one of the most painful and regretful chapter of an otherwise great history, that of the USA.
 
It's all true Myles, it's about gas and oil primarily. I think history shows how we treated the Indians.
 

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