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>[AP, Cairo, Egypt, 31 Aug 1995]
> CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Six people drowned Monday while trying to
> rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt.
> An 18-year-old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot
> well. He drowned, apparently
> after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police said.
> His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went
> in one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers
> then came to help, but they apparently were pulled down by the
> same undercurrent. The bodies of the six were later pulled out of
> the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of
> Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It survived.
Now THAT (the chicken, goddamnit) is air consumption. Eat your heart out,
George.
Who taught that fowl to do cave? I want the same in-cluck-tor....
I take it, his buddies didn't leave with his thirds? Or at all....?
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"huh?"
-Jammer, 1992
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