So now you've sent it out to all the rest of the list. I understand that at
the stroke of midnight your computer bursts into flames.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bentley <jeffbentley@mi*.co*>
To: Bill Lais <billlais@mp*.ne*>
Cc: cavers@cavers.com <cavers@cavers.com>
Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 10:42 AM
Subject: Fire diving virus...Re: Can anyone verify this??


>I've heard that bill is responsible for this
>new selfpropagating fire diving virus...
>
>Jeff
>
>
>Bill Lais wrote:
>>
>> Subject: Tough luck stories
>>
>>  SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY
>>  (this was an article in the CALIFORNIA EXAMINER, March 20, 1998):
>>
>>  Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of
>>  fores while assessing the damage done by a forest fire.  The deceased
male
>> was
>>  dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers, and
>>  facemask.
>>
>>  A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns
>>  but from massive internal injuries.  Dental records provided a positive
>>  identification.  Investigators then set about determining how a fully
>>  clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.  It was revealed
that,
>> on
>>  the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the
coast--some
>>  20 miles away from the forest.  The firefighters, seeking to control the
>>  fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very
>> large
>>  buckets.  The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling,
then
>> flown
>>  to
>>  the forest fire and emptied.  You guessed it.  One minute our diver was
>>  making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next the was doing a
breaststroke
>> in a
>>  fire bucket 300 feet in the air.  Apparently, he extinguished exactly
5'10"
>>  of the fire.
>
>--
>Jeff Bentley
>jeffbentley@mi*.co*
>http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffbentley

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