Posted on 08/14/2004 6:05:42 AM PDT by Jane_N
A superstitious Romanian, who refused to leave his house throughout Friday, the 13th of August to avoid bad luck, died after he was stung by a wasp in his kitchen, police said. Florin Carcu, 54, had even taken the precaution of asking his boss for permission not to go to work on the inauspicious Friday, the police in Cluj, central Romania, said in a statement.
"It was the strangest request I've ever received but I ended up giving him permission to stay at home because he seemed to be really scared of something bad happening to him on that day," Carcu's boss Gheorghe Domsa told the press.
Doctors from the emergency services in Cluj said Carcu had been making coffee when he was stung by a species of wasp nicknamed "the wolf", which is very rare in Romania and whose sting is very poisonous.
They can put this one into Final Destination 3, if it ever comes out.
It's bad luck to be superstitious!
Ha.
Goes to show, if you're going to have bad luck, you're going to have bad luck.
Unavoidable.
Looks like the guy was right about something bad happening, but he should have gone to work...
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