He're a good one

http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Klun" <jklun@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Things not to wear when welding

> Weelllll!
>
> The Navy Safety Bulletins were put out on the East Coast by the Norfolk
> Naval Safety Center. In fact, our ship was mentioned twice in separate
> safety violations in 1968 and 1969. Our Commanding Officer, when he was
> relieved in April 1969, was assigned to that very same location as
> 'punishment' for one of the safety infractions he committed in January
> 1968. I personally read the Safety Bulletin that 'banned' BIC lighters
> from breast pockets of welders. I didn't believe this either when I was
> first told of this when I reported on board my ship so I asked to see
> the 'paper'. It was there- kept in the Engineering Department Office
> along with the NAVSHIPS TECHNICAL BULLETINS. This didn't apply to me as
> I used a Zippo.
>
>
> Spewey wrote:
>
> > Gawd dang newsgroups.
> >
> > The exploding lighter legend emerged in the late 1970s. According to
> > Morgan and Tucker, it probably began as a word-of-mouth rumor which �
> > whatever its origins � was "soon picked up by worried officials and
> > spread further with the help of copy machines."
> >
> > http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/lighters.htm
> >
> > chris gonzalez wrote:
> >
> >> I call BS on that myth....
> >>
> >>> John Klun wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The story below is quite true....
> >>
> >
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