I got this from someone at work. It's supposed to be true!
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 face mask.
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 fire fighters,
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 up righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing
that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers 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!
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