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- From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: It's a crying shame
- Message-ID: <72726@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 23:26:25 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <725825416snz@socrates.demon.co.uk>
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- James Bridson writes:
-
- >There was quite a good story in the paper today, a possible UL. It
- >told of two TV news casters in Zimbabwe who were disciplined for
- >bursting out in laughter after reading a story about a woman who gave
- >birth on a train. The baby was born in the toilet on the train,
- >literally 'in the toilet' and was flushed through to the track below.
- >The train was halted and the baby was found fortunately alive.
-
- >This was in the Argus (Cape Town Paper Daily) on 28th December
- >(today). The newsreader bit might be true but the baby falling from
- >a train got me wondering. Why on earth would a woman give birth into
- >a toilet? Still it could happen......
-
- Can happen, and *did* happen to the wife of a friend of mine (WOAF?)!
-
- Third delivery; nervous parents and mom-in-law kept calling doctor
- about progressing labor. Doc says not to worry, still *very* early
- in labor, also *very* late at night; get some sleep, come to hospital
- in the morning, and we'll check her out... Around 5 AM, she's all
- the more convinced something's about to happen, so they start getting
- ready to go. Grandma takes Mom into the bathrooom for a last potty
- break; *SPLOOSH!!*; alarums and excursions!; Dad runs in, Mom is
- looking between her legs into the bowl; he reaches in and grabs
- daughter out of her first (cold!!) bath... All OK, but Doc got
- *royally* chewed out, needless to say.
-
- The trick now is to avoid letting ANY other kids, particularly
- her siblings, hear the story! Can you imagine the hazing?
- (Probably save the story for an x-teenth birthday...)
-
- Dave
- dbell@cup.portal.com
-