Bungee Jumping
Alice and Frank are Bungee-jumping one day. Alice says to Frank, “You know,
we could make a lot of money running our own Bungee-jumping service in
Mexico.”
Frank thinks this is a great idea, so they pool their money and buy
everything they’ll need; a tower, an elastic cord, insurance, etc. They
travel to Progresso, Mexico and begin to set up on the square at the end of
the bridge. As they are constructing the tower, a crowd begins to assemble.
Slowly, more and more people gather to watch them at work. When they had
finished, there was such a crowd they thought it would be a good idea to
give a demonstration.
So, Alice jumps. She bounces at the end of the cord, but when she comes back
up, Frank notices that she has a few cuts and scratches. Unfortunately,
Frank isn’t able to catch her and she falls again, bounces and comes back up
again. This time, she is bruised and bleeding.
Again, Frank misses her. Alice falls again and bounces back up. This time
she comes back pretty messed up — she’s got a couple of broken bones and is
almost unconscious. Luckily, Frank finally catches her this time and says,
“What happened? Was the cord too long?”
Barely able to speak, Alice gasps, “No, the Bungee cord was fine…It was
the crowd. What the hell is a piñata?!”
Black Boxes Installed in 4X4’s
The National Transportation Safety Board recently
divulged they had covertly funded a project with the
US auto makers for the past five years, whereby the
auto makers were installing black boxes in four-wheel
drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, in
fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15
seconds before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 44 of the 50 states the
last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes
were, “Oh , SHIT!”
Only the states of Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri,
Arkansas, Alabama and Texas were different, where 89.3
percent of the final words were, “Hold my beer and watch this”
Words to the Wise 