These are urban legends.
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:44:43 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>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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