Forums

We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.

Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.

Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.

To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home

Welcome to Live View – Take the tour to learn more
Start Tour
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
Bamboo
01 Feb 10 18:13
Joined:
Date Joined: 18 Jul 09
| Topic/replies: 3,394 | Blogger: Bamboo's blog
A motor yacht travelling to the Carribean stopped so all the crew could take a swim.Apparently they all jumped in at the same time and had forgotten to put the ladder down so as a result they could not get back on board subsequently they all drowned.

In another story a man took the door off his micro-wave oven when working in a fast-food kiosk to make the whole process quicker using masking tape to mimmick the door closing and within a few months he died from cooking his own kidney.

Last but not least the chef who tried to save his rolex watch which had dropped into the deep fat fryer he instinctivly used his hand to retrieve it and subsequently suffered horrific burns .

Have you got any unusual stories meant to be true?
Pause • Switch to Standard View Unusual stories meant to be true
Show More
Loading...
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 6:22 PM GMT
Last but not least the chef who tried to save his rolex watch which had dropped into the deep fat fryer he instinctivly used his hand to retrieve it and subsequently suffered horrific burns .

It may unusual for that to happen but certainly not an unusual consequence

the other 2 stories is complete bullsh!t
Report Sica Dan • February 1, 2010 6:23 PM GMT
The first one is actually the plot of film made about 3 years ago
Report Discipline87 • February 1, 2010 6:27 PM GMT
Open Water 2
Report Sica Dan • February 1, 2010 6:28 PM GMT
It was called Open Water 2 or Adrift
Report ole • February 1, 2010 6:29 PM GMT
a mate of mine had a budgie,and,according to him, it fell off its perch and broke its leg,so he made a splint for its leg with a match,and one morning it dropped down onto the grit-paper in the bottom of its cage and started walking around,the match struck the sandpaper and the budgie was barbecued...



he swears this happened,i swear he drinks too much :)
Report Make my hay • February 1, 2010 6:32 PM GMT
A cannibal who got married, and at the wedding reception, toasted his mother-in-law
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 6:36 PM GMT
The woman who missed the french flight which went down and killed everybody recently and then a week later was killed in a car accident back in Italy
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 6:37 PM GMT
Well, what happened to me once, I had a fan heater, and I was steaming and conked out in front of the fan heater and it was blasting against my right hip, woke up in the morning finding myself like this, and I had a huge blister on my side. That's all it was.

And it was a working day, so went to work hungover and manager told me to see the nurse across the road, and I had a wee bandage on it, and I have a small red permanent mark on my right hip now. Very trivial.

My mate fae work obviously knows about this incident and it was only a fortnight ago, he gave me two stories,

one was that he had heard of someone falling asleep in front of a fan heater with the heater blasting his arm, and he woke up to find his arm had been burned to the bone resulting in getting his arm amputated.

second, my mates own auntie fell against a mantelpiece above a fireplace was rendered unconscious whilst the roaring fire was burning her head, i.e. she was being roasted alive, and the uncle came in the house only to find a perfect body but with a skull instead of a head

are these 2 stories plausible??
Report ole • February 1, 2010 6:40 PM GMT
only if you drink buckfast..
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 6:45 PM GMT
Unusual stories thats for sure punterfleecer whether they are true i think its quiet likely but i`m not sure
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 6:48 PM GMT
The gnome that got nicked and then went travelling the world with pictures and post-cards being sent back to the gnomes owner from all over the place and then he was returned after a few months away.
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 6:49 PM GMT
unlikely, especially the kidney one after all, we have 2 and we can function perfectly with just 1

and don't boats have life-rings, to make sure people don't drown? after all, a person can wear one, and you can probably have 3 people holding onto them on the outside at the same time
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 6:50 PM GMT
Bamboo 01 Feb 19:48
The gnome that got nicked and then went travelling the world with pictures and post-cards being sent back to the gnomes owner from all over the place and then he was returned after a few months away.


True, can easily be done.
Report ROCKIN HORSE • February 1, 2010 6:50 PM GMT
the fireplace,skull one is plausable,research into spontaneous combustion victims have been solved by such accidents,the body tends to burn slowly in very small contained area
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 6:52 PM GMT
I suppose that one can be plausible but I bet it wasn't my mate's aunty!
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 6:52 PM GMT
I can believe both the yacht one and the kidney one.As far as the life rings are concerned they are all located on board the vessel which makes it impossible to retrieve them from the water.
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 6:53 PM GMT
Bamboo 01 Feb 19:52
I can believe both the yacht one and the kidney one.As far as the life rings are concerned they are all located on board the vessel which makes it impossible to retrieve them from the water.


I hadn't realised all of the crew left the boat, if that's the case then the captain isn't very clever!
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 6:54 PM GMT
I can believe the kidney one because there are many daft people out there and i`d imagine the micro wave oven would still be able to heat the food item concerned.Apparently it was a realy small space and it was alot easier if the door was removed.
Report ROCKIN HORSE • February 1, 2010 6:54 PM GMT
Could explain the Marie Celeste
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 6:57 PM GMT
need to research Marie celeste forgive my ignorance
Report ROCKIN HORSE • February 1, 2010 6:59 PM GMT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 7:00 PM GMT
got it ty spooky story
Report speedypro • February 1, 2010 7:32 PM GMT
Mrs speedy laughed at the budgies leg.
Report Dobbo • February 1, 2010 8:09 PM GMT
The burnt body of the diver that was found in the woods in the South of France.He was swimming in the sea and was scooped up by a helicopter collecting water to put out the fire
Report crystalhunt • February 1, 2010 8:10 PM GMT
If all the crew of the yacht drowned , who lived to tell the tale.
Report a bitofinterest • February 1, 2010 8:10 PM GMT
gary binosh backed a winner..
Report Bamboo • February 1, 2010 8:29 PM GMT
I guess the yacht must have been found by somebody i don`t know the in`s and outs.Good point though
Report baracouda30 • February 1, 2010 9:10 PM GMT
A German couple in their 50s took their old car to a scrap yard. They parked, completed the paperwork, but got back in the car to shelter from a sudden squall of rain. "The driver of the crane was told to process their car", said a police investigator. "He did so without realizing that the couple were sitting inside again." The car was grabbed by the crane's steel claws and dropped in the crusher, which normally reduces cars to a small cube. It was stopped when the crane driver heard the woman's screams, but it was too late to save her husband. The crane driver was hospitalized for shock, but was expected to be charged with "negligent manslaughter". Daily Mail 14 April 1997
Report baracouda30 • February 1, 2010 9:11 PM GMT
Consenza, Italy - Stag party friends were curious when a stripper failed to jump out of a huge cake. Assuming she was no longer in there, they received a nasty surprise when they found her dead inside it. Gina Lalapola, 23, had suffocated after waiting for an hour inside the sealed cake. Daily Record - 30 August 1997
Report fuzzyone • February 1, 2010 9:36 PM GMT
Guy having a good w@nk, opens his eyes and there is a cup of tea on the side left by his mum.
Report casemoney • February 1, 2010 9:39 PM GMT
money tree put up 7 winning selections combining them all in a goliath ,he broke max pay out at hills ..
Report punterfleecer • February 1, 2010 10:30 PM GMT
The Daily Record is a terrible newspaper and often falls for silly stories

their "reporters" are very incompetent and often get stories from the internet rather than go out and get their own stories
Post Your Reply
<CTRL+Enter> to submit
Please login to post a reply.

Wonder

Instance ID: 13539
www.betfair.com