Six Drown Saving Chickens: And Other True Stories from the Reuters "Oddly Enough" File (Paperback)

by Reuters (Author) "DUBLIN-Forget guns. Irish robbers have found rats are a more effective weapon to frighten people into abandoning cars and possessions, police said..." (more)
Key Phrases: police spokesman, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka (more...)

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Product Description
A wildly comic collection of bizarre but true news stories documenting the humor and pathos in human absurdity contains two hundred of the zaniest stories that capture the humor and wackiness of human life. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf; 1st edition (July 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786703695
• ISBN-13: 978-0786703692
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,829,050 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid little book!, July 1, 2002

By	John M Flora "olioscourge.blogspot.com" (Brookland, AR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Basler is a member of a vanishing breed - the journalist who has preserved his sense of humor and whimsy. Bob and I started our journalistic careers in the spring of 1967 at The Indianapolis News. He moved on to New York and Reuters and I ran out the clock in Indianapolis. But we both shared a fascination for the bizarre little stories that crop up from time to time - the kind of stuff we'd clip out of the paper and poke into a drawer or a file folder with the intention of putting it all together in a collection someday. That's what Bob has done for us with this book - saved a handful of these gems that make newspapers something other than dreary chronicles of mayhem and tragedy. But then that's the kind of book you might expect from a guy who, as a young reporter, once hid inside a trash can on an Indianapolis street and shouted "Thank you!" whenever someone tossed in some refuse.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oddly Enough..., July 11, 2000

By A Customer

Well, the title tells it all. This book is a compliation of wacky human interest stories as reported by the REUTERS news service. I really liked it a lot.