No Matter How Bad Your Day Was…

Many of us have experienced a fender-bender, but what about being thrown through your windshield, landing on the pavement, and being run over by so many cars that parts of your body get dragged across multiple town lines?

It’s always a drag when that happens.

At times like these, the fortunate among us should take a moment to appreciate how trivial most of our daily problems are. And as always, at least your day wasn’t this bad!

Source: New Haven Register (Full story here.)

I think everyone has had days when your car breaks down, acts wonky, and you find yourself wondering if it’s possible for an inanimate object to hate you. That question may be one for the philosophers to answer, but if it’s possible for a car to hate someone, this guy sure has a strong case:

The Honda he was driving flew into the air, struck the center median, slid sideways and then hit an above-ground city water meter, Jockers said. It then struck a tree, causing it to spin violently counterclockwise. In the process, Correa, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the Honda, and the young man struck a building at 4957 38th Ave. N. The Honda then struck the same building and then struck Correa, Jockers said.

So… he crashed his car into a spin, was ejected from the car into a building, then hit by his own car? Was his car named Christine?!?

Source: Fark

BONUS:

As I was writing this, I ran across another great link, also courtesy of fark, which I just couldn’t resist. Consider this a bonus for today if you’re having a particularly rough time of it. A man in Sussex, England was hospitalized after he was viciously attacked by a herd of cows while walking his dog. Some people get attacked by mountain lions, bears, wolves, sharks…this guy gets run down by a bunch of ticked off cows.

Source: Fark

I think I can safely say I’ve found today’s winner, courtesy of fark:

No Really, It Can Get Worse

Executive Summary:

1. Woman has heart attack, EMTs resuscitate her successfully, bringing her back from the brink of death.
2. In the process of giving her CPR to save her life, she ends up with broken ribs.
3. While in the hospital, she learns she will need heart bypass surgery.
4. Still in the ICU, she falls out of bed, slices open her forehead and breaks her nose.
5. To cauterize the 20 stitches on her forehead, a small torch is used – except they forgot to turn off the oxygen mask, and it erupts into flame, burning her entire face.

So, if you find yourself asking “could this day get any worse?”…yes, yes it can.

-Jay

Source: Fark

A couple more gems from the archives:

• Man Killed By Trouser Snake
• Five Killed in “Sewage Tsunami” (Bonus: Slideshow)

-Jay

Source: Bangkok Post, BBC

Incompetence in the criminal realm is nothing new (after all, see yesterday’s Blind UN-Lucky post). But, courtesy of fark and news.com.au we have the story of one criminal whose incompetence will no longer be an issue. The would-be burglar fell and cut his own throat on jagged glass while trying to climb in the window he had broken. So remember folks, no matter how bad your day was, at least you didn’t unintentionally commit a burglary and suicide at the same time.

-Jay

Source: Fark

Everyone has had days when you just can’t seem to do anything right, but on the bright side, at least the odds are pretty low that you’ll be shot by a 75-year-old blind man while trying to break into his house.

-Jay #1

Source: Fark

For our first installment, here are a few past issues of No Matter How Bad Your Day Was:

• Monkeys Attack Delhi Politician
• Think You’re Pissed Off? Try Being Pissed On

-Jay #1

Frist Post!!!1!!ELEVEN!

I’ve been thinking about starting this little blog anyway, and I’ve just now gotten around to it in a bizarre failure to procrastinate and be lazy. So, what is this site, other than YAWB (Yet Another WordPress Blog)?

Quite simply, I’ve noticed in the past few months that almost every day I run across a story in the news that makes me think “no matter how bad your day was, it wasn’t this bad”. I’ve taken to sending links to stories that fit that description out to my friends as “today’s installment of no matter how bad your day was…”, and it occurred to me that it’d make a decently amusing blog or article site similar to slashdot, worsethanfailure, that kind of thing. Of course that all somewhat depends on whether I can manage to update this site on a regular basis, but I’ve recruited a friend of mine, Jay Cross (yes, we’re both named Jay), to help me keep the site fresh with new content, so let’s give it a try!

-Jay “Number One” Loden