You Can't Be Too Careful : Cautionary Tales for the Impetuous, the Curious and the Blithely Oblivious
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Author
David Pryce-Jones
Published
July 18, 2009
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Consider the first one in the book, for instance: "A
plumber died afte jumping naked from his girlfriend's third-floor
apartment near Salonika, Greece, to escape from the enraged husband who
caught them in bed." (Why is it always the plumber?) Or how about this
one? "A man was electrocuted in his back garden while fitting a water
pump in a fish pond. The shock killed Michael N. when he put his hand
in the water to find out why the pump would not work." (Hmmm, I suppose
he should have called that plumber.) One more and then you're on your
own: "Murderer Michael G., who escaped the electric chair after an
appeal, was electrocuted accidentally while sitting on a steel toilet
in his cell in Columbia, South Carolina. He was trying to repair
earphones connected to his television set when he bit into a live
wire." You can't make this stuff up. And I'm gonna go hide under the
bed.
