ENGLISH:
Firemen had been fighting the forest fire for nearly 3 weeks, before they could get it under control. A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around. Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills. Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction, for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil, but would cause serious floods as well.
TURKI$:
AteS adamlarI orman ateSini yakInca 3 haftalar savaSmISlardI once, onlar aldI onu kontrolun altIna. Bir kIsa zaman once, buyuk agaclar kaplamISlardI ulke tarafInI miller cevresinde. Simdi duman hala yukseldi yukarIya, sIcak topraktan colleSmiS tepelerin uzerine. KIS ustune geliyordu ve tepeler cevredeki koyleri tehditliyordu yIkma ile cunku agIr yagmur sadece topragI bir yola yIkamaz, ama ciddi sellere neden olurdu sanki harika.
-- Avusturya Lisesi YIllIgIndan. Yazan: Cem Guvener
Reuters, Tel Aviv
An Israeli woman's fight with a stubborn cockroach put her husband in the hospital with burns, a broken pelvis and broken ribs, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported yesterday.
The woman, frightened by the insect when she found it in their living room, stepped on it, threw it in a toilet and sprayed a full can of insecticide on it when it refused to die.
Her husband came home from work, went to the toilet and lit a cigarette. When he threw the cigarette butt into the bowl, the insecticide fumes ignited, "seriously burning his sensitive parts," the Post wrote.
When paramedics were called to the home in Tel Aviv, they laughed so hard when they learned what had happened that they dropped the stretcher down the stairs, breaking the unidentified man's pelvis and ribs.
BACKGROUND
A firm in Germany ordered coffee from an American firm, and while the coffee was on route, a few bags split open, making it possible for rats to nest in them. The German firm sent the following letter to the United States:
Schentlemens,
Der last two pecketches ve got from you of coffee was mit rattschidt gemixt. Der coffee may be gute enuff, but der ratt durds schpoils der trade. Ve did not see der rattschidt in der zamples vich you sent us.
It takes so much time to pik der ratt durds from der coffee dat it's hardly wurt it. Ve order coffee clean und you schipt schidt mixt mit it. It vas mistake ja ? Ve like you to schip us der coffee in vun zack, und der rattschidt in annuder - den ve mix it to suit der customer.
Write blease if ve schouldt schip der schidt bek und keep der coffee, or if ve schouldt keep der schidt und schip der coffee bek, or schip der whole schidden vorks bek.
Ve vant to do right in dis madder, but ve don't like all dis rattschidt bizness.
Mit Much Respects,
Karl Grummenschidt.
The following is a direct quote from the Center for Strategic and International Studies report on GLOBAL ORGANIZED CRIME; the author who introduces the story swears it's true.
FBI agents conducted a raid of a psychiatric hospital in San Diego that was under investigation for medical insurance fraud. After hours of reviewing thousands of medical records, the dozens of agents had worked up quite an appetite. The agent in charge of the investigation called a nearby pizza parlor with delivery service to order a quick dinner for his colleagues.
The following telephone conversation took place and was recorded by the FBI because they were taping all conversations at the hospital.
Agent: Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of soda. Pizza Man: And where would you like them delivered? Agent: We're over at the psychiatric hospital. PM: The psychiatric hospital? Agent: That's right. I'm an FBI agent. PM: You're an FBI agent? Agent: That's correct. Just about everybody here is. PM: And you're at the psychiatric hospital? Agent: That's correct. And make sure you don't go through the front doors. We have them locked. You will have to go around to the back to the service entrance to deliver the pizzas. PM: And you say you're all FBI agents? Agent: That's right. How soon can you have them here? PM: And everyone at the psychiatric hospital is an FBI agent? Agent: That's right. We've been here all day and we're starving. PM: How are you going to pay for all of this? Agent: I have my checkbook right here. PM: And you're all FBI agents? Agent: That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We have the front doors locked. Pizza Man: I don't think so. <Click>