Surviving the Workday

Lacking any sort of cohesive theme this week, I decided to pick some stories I bookmarked that are just plain over the top weird.

Here’s a story I don’t quite understand. Something about a clock tower, and a guy climbing up to do some maintenance, and then falling off the ladder in shock when he discovers a dead body up there. They never tell us who the dead guy was, and there’s this sort of weird sentence wherein the injured man is referred to in the past tense by an anonymous source. Presumably the dead man was not named Doc Brown, though.

I’m sure the police officers in charge of dealing with this incident will be telling the story at parties for years to come. Drunk guy, wrecked car, deciding to tow it (upside down) using a tractor, and it all ends up in Otter Creek.

I wish there was actual footage of a plane eating a luggage container but sadly there isn’t. A “slight problem” indeed.

It must have been extremely disconcerting to open a seemingly new wallet only to find ten human teeth inside. I just really want to know how they got in there. This would be a great jumpng off point for a creative writing exercise.

And finally, this could probably fit under harassment, but it’s just so what-the-effy that I put it here. A woman is hounded out of her job at a Muslim school because parents believe her to be a man–despite a doctor’s certificate to the contrary.  I can’t decide if the parents knew she was a woman and were just being assholes because they are so against women wearing pants, or if they seriously thought that she was a man.

All that confusion is making me tired. Time for a nap.