Subject:          Fact, or Fiction...?

I'm sure most of you received Stuart's informative e-mail a few weeks back
regarding the chap who went to New Orleans (I think in his story), was
bought a drink in a bar by a charming young woman and woke up next morning
in a bath full of ice minus his kidneys. I can't remember whether I
replied to this story to everyone or just Stuie, but basically this is
what happened to the friend of Kim's (my woman) boss when he went on a
business trip to Las Vegas. He lives in Vancouver and is currently on
dialysis awaiting a transplant. I don't know the friend, but I know the
boss, and he says it's his friend, Joe Bloggs. Fact, or Urban Legend...?

	So, with that question in mind, here's another story for you,
which whether it's true or not is still a pretty good story. It comes via
a chap I work with who is a Bah'ai; for those of you not familiar with
this religion it is an eastern one wherein the practioners dedicate
themselves to the virtues of love and peace and goodwill to all men, even
the Muslims who persecute them horrendously in Iran. Anyway, he's a very
trustworthy fella, but while I wouldn't question his integrity, I would be
somewhat wary of his naievety. It was told to him by a 'very good friend'
of his who is a doctor at our University hospital.

	This medic friend was working A & E one evening when a couple
(male and female, so there's no mistake) were brought in in an ambulance,
accompanied by police, and naked. She had suffered cuts to the head and a
concussion, while he was bleeding profusely from the testicles. Apparently
the couple themselves were in so much pain respectively (hardly
surprising) that they had had to call 911 themselves to get an ambulance
to take them to the hospital. The police, who routinely monitor such
calls, had assumed that it was a case of domestic violence and so had
proceeded to the scene also. When the couple realised that the police were
aching for a bit of action and wanted to get involved they had to explain
what had actually happened. Far from the domestic violence scenario being
painted by the cops, the couple explained that they had in fact been
expressing their love in that most sublime physical manner, specifically
in the 'doggy' position, on a couch against the wall. It was in the midst
of this passionate love-making that their young cat decided he wanted to
play too and so took a swipe at the 2 play things being dangled enticingly
before him. In his shock, the gentleman drove his loved one through the
plaster wall, a la Johnny Searle. Hence, they ended up in A & E to be
treated by Jamshid's medic friend. Fact, or fiction...? Who cares?
	See you lards in 2 weeks!!!!!!

	Mike