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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 forest 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 he was doing a
breaststroke in a fire bucket 300 feet in the air. Apparently, he
extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. Some days it just doesn't pay
to get out of bed.
STILL THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY? THINK AGAIN.
(The following is taken from a Florida newspaper:)
A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in
the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the
motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man,
still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door
and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.
The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her
husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying
next to him and the patio door shattered. The wife ran to the phone
and summoned an ambulance.
Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the
several flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics
to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and transported the
husband to the hospital, the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed
it outside. Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife
obtained some paper towels, blotted the gasoline, and threw the towels
in the toilet. The husband was treated at the hospital and was
released to come home. After arriving home, he looked at the shattered
patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle.
He became despondent, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and
smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it
between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her
husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband
lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was
suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin.
The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance. The same
ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street.
The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying
him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street
accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the
husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started
laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped the
husband out. He fell down the remaining steps and broke his arm.
Now THAT is a bad day...
--
Jeff
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