SIX DIE TRYING TO SAVE CHICKEN - August 1, 1995

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Six people drowned yesterday while trying to rescuea chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18-year-oldfarmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned,apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, policesaid.

His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in oneby one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came tohelp, but they apparently were pulled down by the same undercurrent.The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the villageof Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulledout. It survived.

Man Killed Repairing Truck - April 1, 1995

Kalamazoo Gazette -- James Burns, 34, of Alamo, Mich., was killed inMarch as he was trying to repair what police described as a "farm-typedump truck. " Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway whileBurns hung underneath so that he could asthe source of a troublingnoise. Burns's clothes caught on something, however, and the other manfound Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."