Not hilarious
I put in for a job as a lab assistant at the Mary Kathleen uranium mine. I got an interview, which went well, but at the end the interviewer Mr. X said I was overqualified for the position. But a chemist they had there might be leaving in a few months and they would contact me if he did.

In the meantime I had temporary work as a lab assistant elsewhere. One Friday after work I found a message to phone Mr.X on the following Monday.

So on the Monday morning I phoned the mine and asked to speak to Mr. X

"Is this some kind of joke you bastard? If it is, it's not funny" was what I got.

I explained the situation. They cooled down a bit.

"He's dead, he was drowned on Saturday"

"Oh Jesus, I'm sorry, I had no idea."

During the weekend there had been an almighty storm at Mary Kathleen and someone had been swept off a bridge and drowned. It was Mr X.

I never heard from them again.
(Codenwarra, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 1:30, 13 replies)

A tragic end to the Streets of Rage saga.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 7:52, closed)

A tragic end to the Operation: Mindcrime album.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:27, closed)

Is it wrong of me to have thought that this was leading to a punchline involving a 44000 litre saltwater pool?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:50, closed)

A tragic end to the R** F******** affair.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 11:01, closed)

Yes it was.

(Codenwarra, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 16:24, closed)

To be fair, if your name is Mr X. and you work in a uranium mine
you're clearly going to die in an unconventional manner, probably at the hands of an international spy.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:52, closed)

Very much this.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 9:55, closed)

I would thought
You would have been more likely to have ended up having a terrible accident and develop super powers
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 10:02, closed)

Comic book Mr X is slightly telepathic.
Big woop.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 10:30, closed)

that could be a side effect of the brain cancer

(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 11:03, closed)

So an employee of a company dies suddenly
...and they're surprised that not everyone in the whole world has heard by Monday morning?
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 14:02, closed)

A reply to the only intelligible comment so far
Actually it had made the news on that weekend, but no name was mentioned. I suppose that all relatives had not been told.
(Codenwarra, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 16:22, closed)

Alright
Fellow person from The Isa.
(shitposter from the anals of posteriority on, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 20:41, closed)