02 May 2010

Harry Meadows - a man after my own heart

In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere Home for the Elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe.

2 comments:

Kate said...

I wasn't quite sure whether I should believe you so I googled the humorous Harry Meadows, but I believe that this is even funnier (or stranger!):
"The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81 year old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents."

Kate said...

PS. Is this what you do when you're bored...surf the web for these fantastic tales?

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