Farmer Tim's Journal: Weirdness...

I'm sometimes given reason to ponder the strangeness of life and how it seems like there's some mysterious force playing silly buggers with us. Today was one of those days.

Last year I did the audio work for a short horror film (I know, I'm a pretentious tosser) about a home invasion where someone gets a knife through the back of their head. A week after filming a member of the crew was attacked with a machete in a home invasion, and his right ear was nearly severed.

One hell of a coincidence, right? Read on.

Forward to last week. Myself and the afore-mentioned crew member, now recovered, are packaging short films for a local community TV station. The station wants to put on classic horror films, and approach us to provide films and a host (my colleague having almost scary expertise in film trivia). Being a little camera shy and not even remotely photogenic, the best idea we could come up with was making a skeleton puppet, so we set about ordering one for the job.

Today, some police turned up on my doorstep with grim news: the severely decayed corpse of my long lost uncle Tony has been found in a tent in a national park.

Conclusion 1: The universe has an incredible sense of comic timing. Two days earlier and we could have saved $80.

Conclusion 2: Some people will do anything to get on television.

I think I'm in danger of developing a metaphysical persecution complex. Does anyone else have a true story of bizarre coincidence?

Aww man...

[UseTheSource]

Conclusion 1: The universe has an incredible sense of comic timing. Two days earlier and we could have saved $80.

That's terrible!... But great, at the same time! :P

Re:Aww man...

[Farmer Tim]

Now I think of it, we'd save on the funeral expenses too. But it probably isn't legal.

wait a tick

[FidelCatsro]

OK , the first one .. perhaps the makers or someone involved in the short film performed the home invasion(I can't imagine they are that common over there) Using the movie as a cover or some such .

I wouldn't say the second one is that much of a coincidence , you clearly do a lot of work in the field .. so he was bound to be found some time and the chances you were working on something similar were rather good.

Also ? What did he of .