hurt the animal’s head and body so badly that it had to go
to hospital.
The Most Unsuccessful Last Goodbye
In
many
countries, when someone dies their body lies in
the church so that everyone can say a final goodbye.
The most unsuccessful final goodbye happened in
March 1896 at a church in Methymni in Greece.
After two days lying in a wooden box in the church
with his best clothes on, Nicephorus
Glycas suddenly sat
up. He looked round angrily at the people there and
asked, ‘What are you all looking at?’
The Most Stupid Robbers
Three thieves at Billericay in Essex spent many hours in
1971 planning to rob the post office in Mountnessing
Road.
They
knew the best time to do it, when there was most
money in the building and no guard. They also bought
guns and a car to help them escape.
So when the time came the Mountnessing robbers
drove very fast through Billericay to the post office.
They jumped out of the car and ran towards the
building. That was when they
realized something
important. The post office was not a post office now. It
closed twelve years before. The building was now an
ordinary shop.
Mrs Gertrude Haylock, the 76-year-old shopkeeper,
later explained, ‘I saw these
two men running towards
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the shop with guns and I said to my customer, “Here’s
somebody trying to be funny.”’
When they got inside the shop, the robbers pointed
their guns at
Mrs Haylock and her customer, Mrs Con-
stance Clarke. They told Mrs Haylock to give them all
the money in the shop.
There was only £6 in the shop because there were not
many customers. They took the money.
‘I think they thought there were hundreds of pounds in
the shop. They looked so funny dressed like robbers. It
was just like
in a film,’ said Mrs Haylock.
After the robbers left, Mrs Clarke felt suddenly ill
when she realized that they were real robbers with real
guns.
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