Common Sense Failures

I loath to think these might be true. I hope they're not.

"A bicyclist crossing an airport runway in Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, was killed when he was hit by a landing airplain. Marcelo Dias dos Santos, 25, could not hear the plane coming because he was listening on his Walkman on headphones, investigators said."

"Wayne Roth, 38, of Pittston, was bitten by a cobra belonging to his friend, Roger Croteau, after playfully reaching into the tank and picking up the snake. Wayne subsequently refused to go to a hospital, telling Roger, "I'm a man, I can handle it.

Falser Words have seldom been spoken. Instead of a hospital, Wayne reported to a bar. He had three drinks, and enjoyed bragging that he had just been bitten by a cobra. Cobra venom is a slow-acting central nervious system toxin. He died within a few hours, in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania."