Hangman
“Take the job too seriously and your retirement will be spent in a rubber room. The corpse still hung from the balcony as those investigating the murder took a welcome break. The coroner was telling a story. Gallows humor, for sure.
“I ran into the strangest suicide of my career in a bar. To make sure his method of self-destruction did him in, the fellow hit upon what he thought was a foolproof plan. First, he found a hanging tree with a stout branch jutting out over a sheer cliff plummeting dow...n to the sea. Then, to ensure that he suffered no pain, the would-be suicide swallowed an overdose of liquid morphine. Finally, to keep from strangling to death if his neck failed to break, he loaded a revolver to shoot himself in the head.”
The coroner chortled to let them know the punch line was coming.
Scotch perfumed his words.
“The fellow tied one end of a rope to the jutting branch, then noosed the other end around his neck. The gun he carried as backup accidentally went off as he jumped over the cliff.MoreLess
“I ran into the strangest suicide of my career in a bar. To make sure his method of self-destruction did him in, the fellow hit upon what he thought was a foolproof plan. First, he found a hanging tree with a stout branch jutting out over a sheer cliff plummeting dow...n to the sea. Then, to ensure that he suffered no pain, the would-be suicide swallowed an overdose of liquid morphine. Finally, to keep from strangling to death if his neck failed to break, he loaded a revolver to shoot himself in the head.”
The coroner chortled to let them know the punch line was coming.
Scotch perfumed his words.
“The fellow tied one end of a rope to the jutting branch, then noosed the other end around his neck. The gun he carried as backup accidentally went off as he jumped over the cliff.MoreLess
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