Posted on 09/05/2012 3:37:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man from Chongqing in Southern China nearly suffocated to death after a romantic gesture to his girlfriend went wrong.
Mr Hu Seng had asked his friend to tape him into a box so he could ship himself via a courier service to his girlfriend, Li Wang.
However, the romantic gesture turned into a life-threatening event for Mr Hu when the courier company mixed up the address with another delivery.
The 30-minute wait turned into a three-hour ordeal for Mr Hu.
The material of the box was reportedly too thick for him to make any breathing holes while inside and he did not want to spoil the surprise by calling for attention.
When the box arrived at Li Wang's place, his friend was poised to record the event.
However, they found Mr Hu unconscious and looking pale upon opening the package.
Subsequently, paramedics were called over to her apartment to revive him.
He admitted, "I didn't realise it would take so long."
The courier company said they would not have accepted this delivery if they had known there was a person inside.
The spokesperson said that even for animals, a special container would be used so they can breathe properly.
My career strategy involved having Hard-to-fill jobs (translation: jobs that any sane person ran screaming from). It worked in that I wasn’t unemployed for the last 33 years of working life.
Like the fellow who had himself shot from a cannon at the circus.
When it came time to replace him, they lamented "But where are we going to find a man of his caliber?"
Poll the customer list at Rochester Big & Tall, maybe??
“Hog Father”
Wait, what?
Klonapin isn’t gonna help erase that...
Three especially famous Chinook folk tales are probably known in some form by most people in southern Alberta from childhood stories.
A man rode his horse to church, only to find just the steeple sticking out of the snow. So, he tied his horse to the steeple with the other horses, and went down the snow tunnel to attend services. When everybody emerged from the church, they found a Chinook had melted all of the snow, and their horses were now all dangling from the church steeple.
A man was riding his sleigh to town when a chinook overcame him. He kept pace with the wind, and while the horses were running belly-deep in snow, the sleigh rails were running in mud up to the buckboard. The cow tied behind was kicking up dust.
A man and his wife were out during a Chinook. The wife was heavily dressed and the man was wearing summer clothes. When the couple had returned home, the man had frostbite, and the woman had heatstroke.
When Robert Heinlein was describing the behavior of a cat, in “The Door Into Summer”, which was going from one door of a farmhouse to the next outside door, looking for one that opened onto better weather, I was nodding my head in understanding.
I grew up here in Maryland, you see. When it was raining on one side of the house, by the time you got to the other to open the door, and had moved that far south or east, the weather could be entirely different at that door.
Rainbows had a habit of showing up around here like moths around an outdoor light. Almost half the time, they were wearing their garments inside-out, having gotten dressed in a hurry in the changeable weather.
Another Tennesseean once said to us, “You don’t like the weather here? Wait five minutes....” :)
Just checked digital library. “The Door Into Summer” is only available in audiobook format after somebody else is done with it. Scalzi isn’t available, period. Need new ideas or a bigger income (good luck with that lol).
We’re leaving later today for our vacation and will be gone for a week. I’ll have my Beeber along, but I can’t type very well on it, so communiques will be brief and cryptic. It is probable that I will not be able to post kittehs, so volunteers will have to take over!
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time...
Bursar 1. Hex 0.
*groan*
You wouldn’t have any peanuts would you?
Howdy.
Back in your house and everything’s okay, I take it?
No not yet. mrco is still at home. The fire is still moving at about 1000 acres each day. They are doing back burns for the 2nd day in a row. I can stay here free until Monday.
Keeping all flexible extremities crossed.
It is difficult to type this way.
LOL!! Thanks!!!
I’ll post a coupla kittehs. I know about the cheezeburgers.
Did you know that if you feed a cat a cheeseburger, it may be prompted to wait by the mousehole with baited breath?
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