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> 
> >>AND YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE HAVING A BAD DAY!!
> >
> >>Response to a wildfire on the south of France's Cote d'Azur was billed as a
> 
> >>marvel of modern fire-fighting technology. Two specially-built flying boats
> 
> >>zoomed in, skimmed the waters of the Mediterranean, scooping vast amounts
> of
> >
> >>water into their belly tanks, and then dropped the water on the hillside
> >>fire.
> >>All was jolly and the wine flowed freely until a body was found in the
> >ashes.
> >>The coroner found that the gentleman had apparently fallen from a great 
> >>height, suffering serious injuries before being burned to death. The report
> 
> >>further noted that the victim was wearing a bathing suit, snorkel, and swim
> 
> >>fins."

Three things wrong with this message:

1) It is a proven urban legend.

2) The scoops of the Canadair water bomber are about 15cm by 20cm
large, so no diver much bigger than G.I. Joe or Troy Tempest could
conceivably enter there.

3) There are no coroners in France.

---------------- Pour la Republique Francaise du Quebec -----------------
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 Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC6 31874 - TDI CD-0197 - http://www.accent.net/emdx 

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