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[venta]

A fairly long stretch of the M1 is closed today, following a pile-up in the fog.

A crash involving a coach, a tanker and eight other vehicles, which is clearly serious.
One person is dead, one person is seriously injured, which is clearly a tragedy.
Numerous others are minorly injured.

Yet, reading on, it becomes apparent that the tanker was full of syrup. Which has gone all over the road. And suddenly... the story is funny.

Which I feel guilty about admitting. A crashed syrup tanker is clearly funny, but should not be enough to find a story about a motorway death funny. I feel sorry for the guy's family, and for the other people who are injured.

I guess syrup tankers are just one of those things that make anything funny. Like penguins. If ever planning to be killed or seriously injured, avoid both as spluttering will always outweigh sympathy.

Mind you, I can think of worse ways to be remembered than with a guilty snigger.

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

We were discussing the judge-explosion-in-shed case the other day - the guy told his wife he wanted a divorce, went to his shed and was blown up. The reports said that when the first people arrived, the wife was 'acting funny'. Now I'm sorry, but if my husband told me something like that then blew up, I'd be laughing hysterically. Somewhat upset, too, but at the same time "OMG, what timing!".

I think it's morally acceptable to acknowledge that human nature works this way and people will snigger, and perfectly ok to laugh if you know the person concerned would have appreciated it. But don't take treacle tart to the wake.