At 10:03 PM 5/18/96 -0400, you wrote:

This is something a friend sent on to me a while back.
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>From the Internet...


     The senior member of the team discovered that the device was attached
with bolts to the cement wall that could only be reached once the device was
unlocked.  (His discovery was by means of tearing apart the device located
in the stall next to the one that I was in.  (Since the value of the
property destroyed in his examination was less than $50 (my deductible) I
did not include it in my claim.)  His partner, who seemed like an
intelligent fellow at the time, came up with the idea of cutting the device

>from the wall with the propane torch that was in the rescue truck.

    The fireman went to his truck, retrieved the torch, and commenced to
attempt to cut the device from the wall.  Had I been in a state to think of
such things, I might have realized that in cutting the device from the wall
several things would also inevitably happen.  First, the air inside of the
device would quickly heat up, causing items inside the device to suffer the 
same effects that are normally achieved by placing things in an oven.  Second, 
the metal in the device is a good conductor of heat causing items that are in 
contact with the device to react as if thrown into a hot skillet.  And, third,
molten metal would shower the inside of the device as the torch cut through.

    The one bright note of the propane torch was that it did manage to cut,
in the brief time that I allowed them to use it, a hole big enough for a
small pry bar to be placed inside of the device.  The EMS team then loaded
me, along with the device, into the waiting ambulance as stated on your form.

    Due the small area of your block 21(a)(3), I was unable to give a full
explanation of these events, and thus used the word which I thought best
described my actions that led to my hospitalization.

Sincerely,
S. Anderson



Jeanne Hedge

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Jeanne,

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

That felt good..... It was great!  I hope you post more of these little
stories.....

Ken DeSoto
Bay Area Animation Society
Executive Staff #5009
Historian/Archivist

"Anime is a state of mind....."