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Bill,

I have reconsidered my offer to come and help you to move to your new house.
If you have so much time that you can waste it playing with people, you need no
help. :-)

All the best,

Hervé Deschamps
352-381-7371 - Gainesville FL. Cell# 305-613-7217
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/hdeschamps/


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.

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