ok, here's one that is wrapped in rather macabre humour-a close relative was a UN inspector in Kosovo. He was staying in Albania at one of Tirana's better hotel's having paid extra out of his own money because the standard was so poor. He worked with some Canadian UN inspectors who were bemoaning their hotel-'come on over to ours 'he said 'we have water and everything'. So the Canadians packed up and were about to move when their hotel owner held them up at gunpoint and refused to let them move -a standoff developed and eventually a shoot out involving both hotel owners and eventually the police and armed military units from Canada and the UK -my relative likened it to the gunfight at the OK Corral. I think the outcome involved the death of the hostage taker, so if it wasn't so bizzarre it would have been macabre. And yes the tins of peaches thing really happened. but my father also used to take photos of burials at sea during the war ad sel them-he still has some. Its what people did.