Wanna Make a Bet?

Good morning my fellow Rotarians. Here’s a lesson that most of us would not want to learn the hard way. Some bets just shouldn't be made.

Just ask a 21-year-old Oakland man who made a $100 bet with his friends that he could fit into a baby swing at a local park.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the unidentified man (who should be thanking police for not releasing his name) lubed himself up with liquid laundry detergent and jammed himself into the kiddie swing's leg holes about 9 p.m. Friday night.

But he got stuck, his legs swelled and he couldn't get out. To make matters worse, his so called “friends” abandoned him.

The newspaper reported that nine hours passed before a groundskeeper heard the man screaming for help at 6 a.m. the next morning. Oakland firefighters tried to free him, but had to cut the chains and took him to a hospital - still in the swing. They used a cast cutter to cut the swing off his body.

The Chronicle reported… "The man sustained non-life-threatening injuries to his body, but there's no word yet on the condition of his ego.”

My question is this… did he collect the 100 bucks? And that is the Bottom of our News on this Friday, June 22nd, 2012.

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