By popular demand

[Bear scratching back, from here]

OK, I got a couple of requests for this story. It's not much, and I'm sure I'll massacre it in the narration, but anyway. This came up at a dinner a couple of days ago, but I distinctly remember having read about it in a daily newspaper a few years back, so I am pretty sure it's a true incident.

It's about a guy who was walking to work one morning, in the city of Patra. At some point his back felt seriously itchy, so after a few failed attempts to relieve the annoying sensation with his hands, he did what bears usually do. Since no trees were in sight, he located an electricity pole, put his bag down, leaned against the pole and started violently scratching his entire back on it.

At that moment another person was walking across the street. He turned his head and noticed the man with his back against the electricity pole, shaking up and down and left and right. Surprised by the sight and violent movements, he thought that the man had somehow gotten an electric shock from the pole! He knew that he had to find a way to detatch him from the pole, as soon as possible. He ran towards him in a frenzy. But if he touched him, he would probably get electrocuted also! So he grabbed a large plank of wood from a nearby construction site, and started violently beating the man, trying to push him off the pole!

The other guy obviously didn't see any of this coming. Before he had any idea what was going on, or any chance to react or say something, he was beaten so bad that he ended up in hospital with two cracked ribs and a dislocated shoulder!

As far as I remember, no charges were pressed.