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Now for some entries from the 'Vault Of Strange' desk. Let me open it up here. See what we
have first of all. Says fun but deadly, and this pertains to a man over at the Kodak Center
in Hollywood who's riding on the railing of the escalator. And he fell off, tumbled down
several floors, and was killed. And we have another case from the County Stadium in Milwaukee
a few months ago where a man was doing the same thing on the escalator. Now I know it's
a lot of fun, I used to do it myself. But hearing about these cases, I?m going to stop,
and I ask that you do too because we can't afford to lose just one of you out there.
See what this one is. Woof, I?m sorry. Now this is a case of a hunter who was shooting
geese. He put his ___, killed goose in the back of the truck along with his shotgun.
But his Labrador Retriever was there. Somehow the dog set off the shotgun. The bullet went
right through the tailgate, into his chest killing him. That's why we say woof, I?m sorry.
Another case here. The classic Bad Boss. This is the owner of a car dealership down in Atlanta,
Georgia. And two of his employees kept importuning him for a raise. And he was so tired of it,
you know what he did to them? He shot them to death. Shot them to death. Now we have
a case from the past, a classic case. This pertains to Escalus, we call it He Needed
A Wig. Escalus, the father of Greek drama was told when he was twenty by a seer that
he would die from a strike from Heaven. Well for many years he's always looking up. What's
going to hit me? Then when he was sixty-nine and on the field and bald, suddenly an eagle
flew over with a tortoise in his mouth. He saw Escalus' bald head, and mistook it for
a rock, dropped the tortoise on his head and killed him. So indeed, the prophecy came true.
Escalus was killed by a strike from Heaven. How about that?