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Caught Red-Handed. Er….No-Handed

Yahoo! News brings us news from the AP that a man cut off and microwaved his own hand, because it “bore the mark of the beast”. Odds are good that on your worst day you probably never put a tourniquet on your arm, cut off your hand with a saw, and microwaved it. Source: Yahoo! [...]

Mom, Look What I Did!

I think every parent has probably had at least one experience with having their child say “Mom/Dad, look what I did!” and subsequently really wishing they hadn’t looked. Such is the case when your son says “come look what I did in the garage” and you go out there to find the dead body of [...]

“Vomiting Bug Sweeps…” – Headlines You Could Do Without

As the title says, there are some headlines you just don’t want to see. For instance: Winter Vomiting Bug Sweeps UK – that’s gotta be the start to a good day, right? Source: Reuters

Youngest Murder Case Ever?

In what may be a candidate for the youngest murderer ever, a 2-year-old shot a man with a loaded gun left sitting on a table. Sure, they tell you it’s just an accident, but that’s just what the defense lawyers want you to think! Seriously though, how about some responsible behavior when we’re working with [...]

Boston Feels The Heat

Literally – a 10,000 gallon tanker full of gasoline crashed in Boston, starting a blaze that engulfed 40 cars and burned hot enough to melt light poles. Amazingly, no one was hurt, but somehow I get the feeling the driver of that tanker is having a really bad day. Source: Fark

The Limitless Versatility of Sliced Bread

I can think of some pretty bad ways to end a day, but I have to admit that being attacked by a rabid fox didn’t even make my list, let alone having to fight it off with the only weapon at hand – a loaf of bread. Seriously. Source: Fark

Give The World A Coke

In what has to be a play for the first ever NMHB sympathy award, check out this x-ray and it’s accompanying caption: “Dr. Abdul Manan, a surgeon at the Nishtar hospital in Multan, points to an x-ray of a glass bottle lodged in a man’s lower abdomen November 21, 2007. A 60-year-old man came to [...]

Giving Your Guitar Mojo In One Easy Step

Today’s entry is a tad unusual for NMHB, but definitely qualifies. I was doing some guitar research and ran across this entry of acousticguitar.com’s Q&A: Ooh, That Smell Source: AcousticGuitar.com

Is That A Grenade In Your Pocket, Or Are You – Oh, It’s a Grenade

I think this one sentence about sums up the salient points of today’s story passed along by Warren: “he then tried to put the pin back in the grenade, but instead it exploded“. Source: Reuters

NMHB Math

Drunk driver + “habitual offender” + school bus = NMHB. Source: Fark