Oh, God NO! NOT THIS! PLEASE KEEP THIS ON REC.SCUBA WHERE IT BELONGS-

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Sender: Jeff Hirschman  Date: 1/27/99 12:16 AM

>Thought you might enjoy this!
>
>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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