...and you thought you were having a bad day!
...and you thought you were having a bad day!
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#1...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/24/09 at 5:59pm
EIN GEDI, Israel - Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive in the 30-foot- deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard.
Entire story here....
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#2re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/24/09 at 6:05pmI ddid not have a good experience there either. Creepy.
#2re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/24/09 at 6:06pmYikes! Being swallowed by the earth is SO not the way I would want to go out!
#3re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/24/09 at 6:13pmI left out a letter in the word, "peering", and I thought - how horrible!!!
#4re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/24/09 at 6:16pm
I got chatting to an old Latvian lady at work the other day. She filled me in on how Latvia fared during WWII. Now *that* totally killed any complaints I may have had about my life. Falling into a sinkhole? Scary stuff, but not as downright terrifying as being treated so inhumanely by other people.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/24/09 at 6:18pmNot so dead now, is it?
#6re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/25/09 at 12:07am
"I left out a letter in the word, "peering", and I thought - how horrible!!!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
#7re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/25/09 at 12:17amHoly crap!
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#8re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/25/09 at 2:08am
Yep, the area around the Dead Sea is fun. Just don't hike onto a sinkhole or into Egypt and don't swim or boat into Jordan (or vice versa) and you'll be fine. :)
Really, though, the last time I was there I got regaled with the story of a guy who managed to save his girlfriend from a sinkhole but got so badly injured in the process he fell into a coma. This is always happening.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#9re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/25/09 at 6:12am
The only thing I remember about the dead sea was that I was screaming in pain. Cuts and open blisters don't go well with 33% salt water (salt water for other oceans is usually about 3%).
#10re: ...and you thought you were having a bad day!
Posted: 6/25/09 at 8:02amSo now when I'm at the beach I'll be afraid of sharks AND sinkholes. Great.
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