Bad Day
And you thought you were having a bad day
Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned 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 scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and facemask. A post-mortem revealed that the person died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries.
Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about to determine 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 from the forest. The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and 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 the breaststroke in a fire dip 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.
posted by John Good @ 8:05 PM
3 Comments:
These can always be checked out at Snopes.
Yep, this is one of those urban myths that have been around for years. They recently tested the myth on "Mythbusters and discovered that the hose the choppers use in firefighting aren't big enough to contain a man and that if they made the pick up hose larger there wouldn't be enough vacuum power to pick up the water or the man.
Thanks guys,
I obviously didn't check this one out. =)
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