> "Jeßus" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g0108b$im7$1@stable.tornevall.net...
>

>> LOL... ya gotta laugh.
>> It's a bit like watching a paraplegic's brakes fail on a steep hill, you
>> know it's terrible but perversely funny at the same time.

>
> In a strange, sick similarity, I saw a guy in a wheelchair get hit by a bus
> years ago, and it was kinda funny.
>
> Seeing him get hit by the bus wasn't the funny bit obviously, but watching
> him realise he was about to get flattened and try to get away from the bus
> was pretty amusing in a sick & twisted kind of way. He was crossing a busy
> road and shot out from behind a parked car and didn't even know the bus was
> there until it locked it's brakes and got his attention. What he did next
> was the funny bit.
>
> Instead of backing up or hurrying straight across the road to get out of
> it's path (in which case he would have made it), he turned to the same
> direction as the bus was travelling and tried to outrun it. Seeing him push
> those wheels around so fast you could almost see smoke coming off the tyres
> was funny in a "Benny Hill" kind of way, combined with the genuine disbelief
> of what he was attempting to do.
>
> He put in a good showing, but the bus won.