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This is the bigest bumch of bull ive read in a month.

At 03:51 PM 6/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>    Today, after our dive, the Boston Bomb Squad was kind enough to
>lend us their bomb-disarming robot, "Leonard", to take the lids off of
>our MLS lights. We lined all of the MLS's up on the dock, and took
>cover behind the fire truck while "Leonard" went to work. 
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>    Since this is a routine thing at the dive boat dock after a wreck
>dive, the Bomb Squad has programmed "Leonard" to use the special tool
>provided by Dive Rite to remove the lid of the MLS. With the deluxe
>package, Dive Rite provides a welders mask and gloves, and a set of
>catcher's pads, usually suficient for a short dive.
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>    Well, Leonard was doing fine on the first two, successfully
>removing the lid without sparking it and was able to disarm them, but
>the third one was his last: as the lid turned ( we were watching from
>the monitor behind the fire truck), the light exploded "like a bomb"
>and blew the head clean off of the hapless robot.
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>    We ran around from behind the truck, and there was "Leonard", his 
>left "arm" holding the bottom of the canister, like a partial egg
>shell, and his right arm holding the stubb of the tool. His head was
>nowhere to be found, and all that was there was a smoking mess of
>wires.
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>    We spend several houirs combing Boston harbor for the head, but to
>no avail. The Bomb Squad said they were "very upset" about the loss of
>the head , and were considering taking action against the maker of the
>MLS, for whom they named the robot.
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