It seemed like a good idea at the time...

Sometimes you read about someone else's misfortune and wonder whether the cause was just plain stupidity or incredibly bad luck. I still can't decide which of these are dumb or dumber...

Finnish opera singer Esa Ruuttunen had his nose broken by a squirrel when the suicidal rodent threw itself into the spokes of his bicycle wheel, as he rode to the rehersals for a world premier show. I've now warned my children about squirrels...

In the US, jogger Eddie Meadows left for his lunch time run and was found (still alive) four days later, waiste-deep in a swamp. When friends and co-workers found him he was covered in bug bites and had sustained himself by drinking the water he was trapped in. How he got stuck has not been explained. I've now warned my children about Americans...