Kenny Rogers and his entourage are aboard their tour bus on their way to a concert in Denver, when they get a flat tire. The mechanic jumps off the bus to fix the flat, but because they're already behind schedule and in a hurry, he neglects to double check that the lug nuts are properly tightened. Shortly thereafter, as the bus goes around a curve on a twisty mountain highway, the entire wheel comes off. The bus veers off the road, and plunges down the side of the mountain. Everybody on board is killed, except for a young roadie who happened to be lying in his bunk, and was somewhat shielded from the crash by his mattress. The kid is lying in his hospital bed being interviewed by the press, and one reporter asks him if Kenny Rogers had said any last words? Yes, said the young man, he did. As the bus went over the edge I could hear Mr. Rogers singing...... You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel... 
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
JOKE: Kenny Rogers
Boy, 9, crashes while driving himself to school
Nine year-old Brandon Brown took a few wrong turns on Thursday morning. "It was very wrong, and I shouldn't have done that," Brandon now says. His mother, Michelle Brown, says he was giving her trouble while getting ready to go to school. "I figured he was in the next room, because I'd seen the bedroom lights on...he's real quiet," Michelle says.
Quiet enough to sneak into his mother's purse, grab her car keys, and drive through his hometown of Alexandria, Louisiana. His drive ended when he crashed into two telephone poles. His grandmother, Christine Armstrong, who was driving along Prescott Road, spotted the accident first.
"I stopped, and I recognized the car, and I looked inside, and the people up there told me, 'The little boy did it'", she says. His grandmother didn't see him in the car. Brandon fled on foot to a nearby hospital. His parents found him, and after being cuffed and placed in the police officer's back seat, Brandon said he has learned his lesson.
"It was very wrong, I shouldn't have done that," Brandon says, "and I said that I would never do that again." His mother says that she could care less about the damage. "I'm just glad that the police gave him back to me, and that he's okay," she says.
Local News: Widow says army Ranger killed self to avoid 9th tour
Noah Hagemann, 6, is joined by his mother, Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, as he peers over a picture of his father, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann.
Army Ranger Jared Hagemann had served eight combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, with another deployment to Afghanistan looming.
But the 25-year-old staff sergeant dreaded the prospect of another tour. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and found the pressures of another a ninth deployment so overwhelming, his wife said, that he repeatedly threatened to take his own life.
On June 28, he was found dead, a gunshot wound to his head, in a training area at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, where he was based.
"He wanted out," Ashley Joppa-Hagemann said. "They should have let him out,".
Hagemann's wife is convinced it was suicide because she said he had repeatedly threatened to kill himself in the final months of his life.
The Army has not yet determined whether it was suicide, said Maj. Brian DeSantis, a spokesman with the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Ga. He said the Army has launched two investigations into Hagemann's death to determine how he died and the factors leading up to his death.
Joppa-Hagemann said the military knew about her husband's mental health problems but did little to help him. "So many people knew there were issues. He sought help and nobody was paying attention," said the 25-year-old widow, who lives in Yelm with the couple's two young sons.
The Army says Hagemann's medical history is being reviewed as part of the investigation. The investigating officer will look into what diagnosis or treatment was made and whether policies were followed, DeSantis said.
The Army has not held a military memorial for Hagemann, and the Army Rangers said Tuesday there are no plans to hold a battalion memorial for him.
"It's ridiculous. He's served his time. Every soldier deserves a memorial," Joppa-Hagemann said.
DeSantis said Hagemann's unit participated in his funeral and gave him full military honors. "The unit was able to pay their respects, so an additional (ceremony) was not planned," he said.
Hagemann enlisted in the Army out of high school in 2004 because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. He stood up for what he believed in, his wife said, and the Rangers to him meant being the first one in, "taking care of the bad guys."
He was charming, outgoing, and commanded everyone's attention when he walked into a room, she said. But after each combat tour, he would return cold, quiet, paranoid, and at times increasingly aggressive and violent. He'd drink more each time, had mood swings and would complain of recurring nightmares, she said.
In 2009, he was admitted for four days to Madigan Army Medical Center for mental health care services and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she said. He went to counseling for alcoholism but was later told he needed to do it on his own time.
"Soldiers aren't being allowed to take care of their mental health programs," said Seth Menzel, an Army veteran who has been pushing for military accountability and has been advocating for Joppa-Hagemann.
In 2010, he received a glowing evaluation with top marks and raters noting his unparalleled loyalty to the Army and Rangers and outstanding potential. Later that year, he would return to Afghanistan for his eighth combat tour. His eight tours lasted, on average, about four months, according to the Army.
His wife said he was growing increasingly frustrated and repeatedly asked to leave the Rangers unit. The Army's DeSantis said the battalion leadership was not aware of any request for him to leave the unit.
"In the last month, he put a gun to his head three times. He told me every day was a struggle to wake up and want to live," Joppa-Hagemann said. "He said the things he had seen and done, no God would have forgiven him."
Young fox cub has the time of its life sliding down quarry conveyor belt
A disused gravel quarry became a playground for a young fun-loving fox and his family.
This photograph, taken by British man Duncan Usher, shows how the clever four-month-old creature turned an old conveyor belt into a make-shift slide, before travelling down it twice.
Mr Usher photographed the amusing sight close to Bursfelde, a hamlet in the German countryside.
The sly-de fox: Appearing to enjoy himself, the cub, aged about four months, rides the quarry conveyor belt in Germany
The 56-year-old, who now lives in Bursfelde, said: 'One morning I arrived at the quarry and saw from a distance two young foxes playing on the conveyor belt.
'One ran back to the top of the conveyor belt and then started to walk back down it, stopped and sat down.
'After a few seconds it started to slide down the conveyor belt using its front paws to drag it forwards.
'They were attracted to the conveyer belt because it was a playground to them.
'I have not seen this type of behaviour amongst free living wild animals and I was really surprised and pleased to witness and capture this unusual event.
'I had to react quickly and knew that the chances of getting a decent image was slight.
'I thought the odds were really against me but that morning fortune was on my side.'
Mr Usher, orginally from Allendale, Northumberland, spent three weeks at the quarry before he managed to capture the elusive foxes at play.
He said: 'Obviously my determination paid off in the end. It was really a combination of repeatedly going back to the same spot and patience.
'I knew from past photographic experience that if I remained persistent, something unusual or worthwhile can, or may happen.
'A large portion of luck also helped.'
Patient abandoned on operating table dies of smoke inhalation
Local police are investigating the death of a patient who was allegedly abandoned while under general anesthesia when a fire broke out in a nearby operating room yesterday.
The the 49-year-old man was undergoing amputation surgery last night, after surviving a traffic accident, when the fire broke out at 10pm at Shanghai No. 3 People's Hospital in Baoshan District.
Hospital officials said a fire broke out in a room next to the operation theatre, but the cause of the fire and the reason why the man was abandoned while undergoing serious surgery was still being investigated.
All patients were evacuated from the building, but when rescuers returned Zhu was already dead, officials said.
The cause of his death is suffocation from smoke inhalation, police said.
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