Thursday's Joke of the day !

[Fan in San Diego]

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handle bars, was dragged through the glass patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him, and the shattered patio door. The wife ran to the phone and summoned the ambulance.

 

Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of stairs to the street to escort the paramedics to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and transported the man to the hospital, the wife up righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas was spilled on the floor, the wife got some paper towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet. The man was treated and released to come home. Upon arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs, and his groin.

 

The wife again ran to the phone to call the ambulance. The very same paramedic crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on to the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them slipped and tipped the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm.

 

Taken from a Florida Newspaper.

[HopsGuy]

Taken from a Florida Newspaper.

 

Good one... except for that last part.

 

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[RayFinkle]

SNOPES

[DC Tom]

Good one... except for that last part.

 

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And Mythbusters actually did a pretty good job of busting it as well.

[HopsGuy]

And Mythbusters actually did a pretty good job of busting it as well.

 

I must have missed that one. The best one I saw was the "can the human voice shatter a wine glass" episode. That was great.

[Fan in San Diego]

Wow, who knew it was Urban legend. Still I thought it was funny.

[Simon]

I must have missed that one. The best one I saw was the "can the human voice shatter a wine glass" episode. That was great.

Well, can it?

[HopsGuy]

Well, can it?

 

Yes, it can. They had a metal singer (not famous) do it. It took him quite a while, but he managed to shatter a wine glass with just his voice. It's not like the Memorex commercial, where the lady hits a high note. The key is hitting the resonant frequency of the glass with enough amplitude (volume) to cause attenuation. If you pluck the glass, the tone you hear is the resonant frequency.

 

The guy held the glass about an inch from his mouth and "sang" the tone he heard. After a couple dozen tries with a lot of different glasses, the glass shattered. I'm sure a young viewers decided to become engineers.