BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items

Subject: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Helen
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 08:18 PM

Here is a thread for weird and wacky news items, starting with this Mud-related one. Sorry, it wasn't jelly!

Helen

ABC Online

ABC News - Early morning 'mud wrestle' for two Melb women

[This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-3jul2003-9.htm]

Posted: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 4:45 AEST
Early morning 'mud wrestle' for two Melb women

Fire fighters in Melbourne have rescued two women stuck up to their belly buttons in mud.

The women were walking back to their car after leaving a friend's house in Gladstone Park earlier today, when as they walked across a nature strip, they sunk into the soft ground.

It is believed there had recently been maintenance works by the local water suppliers in the area.

Commander Frank Bersanko from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade says fire fighters used a ladder across the footpath to pull the women to safety.

"One of the women had a new pair of shoes on, but they're still stuck in the mud, but she's happy she's alive .. and both women were washed down by the fire fighters .. and pretty happy to be alive."

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Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 09:29 PM

Holy flashback to old Tarzan movies! Too bad there wasn't a chimpanzee with a tree branch around. They could've saved the call to the fire dept. Sure hope they didn't get out of the mud and then get eaten by carnivorous plants or captured my one of those tribes that liked to play "make a wish" with human captives.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 10:26 PM

Mud, mud, glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!
So follow me, follow,
Down to the hollow,
And there let us wallooooow,
In glorious mud!!

Flanders and Swann, wu'nnit?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Schantieman
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 08:58 AM

It certainly was!

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Grab
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 12:12 PM

That actually happened to my wife a couple of years back. We were walking round Mam Tor and Kinder Scout in the Peak District (UK) - for those that don't know, this is an area of boggy peat, so you sometimes need to be careful where you step. I'm pretty good at spotting what's solid and what's not, so I don't have a problem.

Anyway, we're walking along and I'm about 10 yard ahead, and then I hear this squeal and a shout of "Help!" from behind me. I turn round, and Emma had vanished up to her thighs in this mud-pit! Ever the gentleman, I pulled her out before I collapsed with hysterical laughter and took photos. To make it worse, she was wearing shorts at the time as well. It's a shame we don't have a photo of her while she was actually stuck, but it does mean we're still married... ;-)

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Helen
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 05:18 PM

I reckon the firefighters in this story would be "pretty happy" t have washed the two women down, too. The line is repeated twice in the story, but it ends as if the journalist is implying that the firemen were happy to oblige.

Amos, the Mud song has been recently used for a tv ad here in oz for a four wheel drive vehicle (RV?).

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 11:44 PM

When I was in elementary school I walked home past a corner that was usually overgrown with grass and had dirt over the concrete. Seems the city had been doing some work there and left it as it had always looked, sans the grass. I walked across what I thought was a bit of dirt on the concrete beneath only to suddenly plunge into a slurry of watery mud above my knees. I caught myself from sinking deeper by grabbing the curb and pulling myself out--ruined my tights and skirt. I thought my mother would be furious with all of the mud--and she was, but not at me--she made a call to the city that I won't forget! The next day that corner was blocked with barricades and blinking lights and tape. (Corner of Tulalip and 34th St, for any of you familiar with Everett, WA.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Helen
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 01:13 AM

In Newcastle, Oz we have a blues/R&B band which goes through changes of personnel and changes of name, but usually has two brothers in it. One plays bass guitar and the other plays lead and does vocals.

Many years ago the bass guitarist was walking along a street at night and fell into a hole which was not properly barricaded and signposted. He did serious injury to his neck and back and took years to fully recover. It's a scary thought that one minute every thing is rosy and then a split second later it has all changed dramatically, with long term consequences. It put a serious dent in the local blues scene here as well.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: LadyJean
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 11:06 PM

Some fellow in St. Johns Newfoundland decided to take a shortcut home from the local pub through the cemetery. He slipped and fell into an open grave. The soil up there is clay, so he couldn't climb out and he knew he'd have to wait until morning.
A little while later someone else took the same shortcut, and slipped into the same grave. He too tried to climb the slippery clay. Suddenly, the first guy tapped him on the shoulder and said, "You're never going to get out of here." He jumped out and ran home.
I'm not sure if the story's true, but it is funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 11:12 PM

a couple of years or so ago some fellow back east lost his keys in a portapotty...he then stripped and jumped in after them....and got stuck...

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 10:17 PM

Years ago my sister was riding our horse back home from some friend's house and decided to ride across a lot on which a new house was being constructed. She ran across one of these mud holes and the horse sank in up to its belly. My sister jumped off, but the horse was stuck. She came home pretty upset, and we all rushed up to see what we could do. We called our vet to see what he could suggest. He came out and found the horse to be ok but quite stuck. He suggested we call a tow truck. We did. They managed to get a strap around the horse's belly somehow and winched it out of the mud. As soon as he got onto firm ground the horse got on its feet and calmly walked home none the worse for wear.

Subject: RE: BS: Mud, glorious mud - wacky news items
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jul 03 - 10:53 PM

A horror story here- be warned...

A few years back, maybe '96 or so, a woman got stuck in Turnagain Arm in Anchorage, Alaska. The tide was out when she and her boyfriend (husband?) drove across the tideflats. His jeep got stuck and she hopped out to push. Turnagain Arm is notorious for its quicksands and she became mired.

Her boyfriend couldn't get her out and ran for help. The fire department came and numbers of other people but they were not able to get her out before the tide changed and engulfed her. If I remember correctly, she was 34 years old.