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There are headlines which are so tragic that all you can do is laugh. It feels horrible, but you just can't deal with it so you joke it away. Then there are headlines which are so incredibly funny that you laugh because you want to - you don't joke about those in the same way though. Then you have the ones which are a mix. Those really are the best in my opinion.
Like the one about the 22-year old guy who drowned in chocolate. I know I shouldn't laugh, but I just can't help it. Poor man - suffocating must be a terrible way to pass over - but I suppose it could be worse. It could've been pigcrap. (I know - I'm just horrible.)

Or the one about the 19-year old who got raped in a park. Not funny really, is it? What if I told you that it was a boy? Or that a man came up to him, waved a knife in front of his face and told him to lay down in the bench and pull his pants down. It's a little bit funny, isn't it? The police took him to the hospital - to a special unit of nurses educated to deal with male rape victims. That's where I cracked up - I found it hilarious. The fact that men get special care and women get an examination was just too much for me.

I'm gonna go hide in shame now. Hide and laugh. Death by chocolate... hahahaha!