[2991] in Humor
TRUE?!: Wrong place, wrong time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ariel E Segall)
Sat Nov 6 00:51:33 1999
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 00:50:58 EST
From: Ariel E Segall <ariels@MIT.EDU>
SCUBA DIVING **CAN** BE DANGEROUS
Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out
section of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest
fire.
The deceased male was dressed in a full wetsuit, 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 40 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 300m in the air.
Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") of the fire.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!!
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