The Loony Bin
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Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:44:08 +0100
Hiya People...
This was posted to the Mensa mailing list recently...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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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 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
300m in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10")
of the fire.