The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil
spill  in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most
expensively  saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers
and applause from  onlookers. A minute later, in full view, they were
both eaten by a killer  whale.

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking
frantically  with what looked like a wire running from his waist
towards the electric  kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the
deadly current she whacked him  with a handy plank of wood kept by the
back door, breaking his arm in two  places. Until that moment, he was
happily listening to his Walkman.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending
pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand
of them,  escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the
two hapless  protesters to death.

And finally.......

Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter
bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it
was  the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.