>Date:    Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:34:12 -0500
>From:    Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
>Subject: VLC Fry-day: Putting out fires
>
>Yesterday I rolled up to the first spot in the right lane of a busy
>intersection near the interstate. I was in my westy. I saw a guy get out of
>a huge seventies sled that had died in traffic and stick a cell phone to his
>ear and walk through busy traffic to a gas station nearby. Unbeknownst to
>him, the car, which had been smoking lighly from under the hood, started
>smoking a lot and dropping what looked like burning chunks of plastic or
>rubber onto the road beneath the engine compartment. <snip>
>The moral of the story: one extinguisher won't do it, and nobody else has
>one, so carry two.
>
>Jim
>
>No, the moral of the story? Bring marshmallows. ;~)

And a LONG stick.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut