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Subject:RE: Embarassing moment: '79 westy on fire
Date:Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:14:06 -0700

>>
>>you guys ever seen an 8-gauge wire evaporate in front of your eyes?? that
>>big red/white wire that goes into the generator?? POOF!!!
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>>
>>joel
>>(alias Lucky Pierre)
>>

Once I saw a worker in his auto battery shop testing a fully charged brand
new car battery. I did not see him pulling a meter or tester anything like
that. Instead he hooked up one end of a jumper to one end of the battery.
The jumper is the kind we use when our cars do not go and had to beg others
to give us a jump start, you know what I am talking about.

The guy grabed the other end and hit the other end of the battery. It's like
a thunder in front of you, a momentary white out. Before I realized what
happened he disconnected the jumper and picked that battery for a sale to
a customer.