20 20, I received your e mail at the office today when I got back from the field, we all had a good laugh. I was referring to the chicken bone post, but if the shoe fits?. In your email you say that you were young at the time 10-17 maybe? I'm sure that somewhere in the owner's manual there is a section on Safety and words to the effect, Stop engine before clearing objects. Lucky that you had heavy gloves? Well maybe. Those gloves could have easily been snagged on the impellor and we'd be calling you Stumpy.
Here are some new members of the Brain Surgeon club;
Just this week on the AM news, some guy in Queens NY was venting a Propane cylinder IN his house. BOOM!!!! Up go the house and the houses next door. The city building inspector declared his house un-repairable, walls bowed out 4 ft and condemned it and the buildings next door were also condemned. The surgeon's wife is in the hospital with broken bones and he has burns and broken bones, not sure how others made out. Now why would anyone empty a 20 lb. Propane cylinder indoors?
Then came all the stories about the dumb a a's, some guy is repairing a gas tank in his kitchen. Don't get ahead of yourself now, wait for the punch line.
He carefully emptied the gas tank and stored the fuel in pots and pans in the kitchen. Ok, now use your imagination.
Here's another good one, a few years ago on my way to work, walking to the Bus Stop a guy is cutting his lawn. Now the ground is not level and he is standing on the top of a steep embankment pulling the mower up toward him. There is morning dew on the grass and he's wearing flip-flops. I had to stop; this was an accident with his name on it, one slip and his feet go under the deck. He didn't think much of my interfering, that was in the early spring. Later that fall I walked to the Auto supply across from the Bus stop, on my way back home, here is this guy sitting on the side porch with both feet bandaged. I stopped and asked if, the mower bit him?
