IDIOT-IN-TRAINING:
A London teenager is in hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving locomotive before he was hit.
Ahh, of course! Why didn’t we think of that?
SPIN DOCTOR:
“I just hopped in there, playing hide-and-seek with the kids,” said fun-loving 30-year-old Robin Toom. The place he decided to hide? The washing machine at his sister’s place in Townsville, Queensland.
The kids found him quickly enough – and he found something too: he was stuck!
“I couldn’t stop sweating in there,” confessed good old Uncle Rob. “They had to bring me a fan.” After 20 minutes, the family gave up and called in the Fire Brigade rescue squad, who finally got him out.
And straight into the dryer he went …
