I don't know how to say this but...
A genuine (and tragic) story from a friend of mine.

Friend had a younger sister who was on a gap year in Africa. There was a terrible accident and she was killed. A lady policy officer was given the task of breaking the news to the family. The family kept in contact with the police officer so found out later that she was junior at the time and this was the first bit of bad news she had had to break.

Anyway, policelady drives into the drive of the parents house ready to break the news to the unsuspecting couple. An incident occurs in the dirveway leading to the following conversation being started by a very distraught policelady: "I'm [sob] terribly sorry but I have some bad news for you. Please can I come in. [Sob] I don't know where to start but I'm afraid your daughter has been involved in an accident and we've been informed that she was killed. [sob] I'm also sorry to have to say that I have just run over your cat. [Sobs uncontrollably]..."
(Gusofnavarone always makes a map of france from sarnies, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:22, 9 replies)

It was also genuine when it happened to a friend of mine

(TheColonel, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:30, closed)

Oh man, it happened to my cousin!

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 11:44, closed)

I was the girl who got killed!

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 11:55, closed)

I'm dead, and so is ...
no, hang on - that's hasn't been funny since 1979.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 12:07, closed)

Meow.
Meow Meow ow.
(speedevil, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 16:06, closed)

Having smooshed my missus pussy.
I can giggle a little as I feel sad.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:54, closed)

Haven't we all smoo...
oh, never mind.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 13:29, closed)

"The family kept in contact with the police officer"
Bullshit.
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 14:59, closed)

I can give you a name and confirm that his sister died in Africa
If my friend chose to make up a story about the tragic death of his sister then yes I have been duped. I can't see why he would. It's not just something I heard down the pub. I know him, his deceased sister and his cat - it was admittedly some time after his sister was killed that I bumped into him again. There you go. (And the family did keep in contact - I think the police lady came back personally because she thought she'd made a balls up of it and, understandably, felt bad).
(Gusofnavarone always makes a map of france from sarnies, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 15:07, closed)