Posted on 12/20/2004 8:26:41 AM PST by Rakkasan1
DULUTH -- A Duluth hockey arena was destroyed and at least two people suffered minor injuries Sunday night after a Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine exploded during a broomball game, starting a major fire and sending players and spectators fleeing.
"It looked like the Zamboni doors flew off onto the ice," a player told KDLH-TV in Duluth, referring to the doors of the enclosure in which the Zamboni sat while waiting to go on to the ice. The explosion happened about 9:40 p.m. at Peterson Arena, 3501 Grand Av. in west Duluth.
The witness said the explosion started ceiling insulation on fire, and the building was quickly engulfed.
"There were people on the ice that got hit by the doors," the player told the television station. "We all just ran out of there. I think everybody got out."
Battling the fireAssociated PressA nursing supervisor at St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth said this morning that one person was treated at the hospital and released.
Player Ryan Ringsred, who was bandaged, picked small pieces
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I first thought this came from The Onion!
A "that's gonna hurt" ping.
Zambonis are related to SUVs and can blow up when they feel like it.
What a bizzare story. I can't imagine that those things are a great risk for exploding.
That would be bad.
Do they run on gasoline?
Song lyrics -"I wanna drive a Zamboni"...
Well I went down to the local arena
Asked to see the manager man
He came from his office, said, "Son can I help you?"
I looked at him and said, "Yes you can..."
I want to Drive the Zamboni...hey
I want to Drive the Zamboni...Yes I do!
Now ever since I was young it's been my dream
That I might drive a Zamboni machine
I'd get the ice just as slick as could be
And all the kids would look up to me
I want to drive the Zamboni...hey
I want to drive the Zamboni...Yes I do!
Now the manager said, "Son, I know it looks keen
But that right there is one expensive machine
And I've got Smokey who's been driving for years."
About that time I broke down in tears.
Cause I want to drive the Zamboni...hey
I want to drive the Zamboni...Yes I do!----The Gear Daddies
you have to listen to this as you read the story..
http://hockey.dune.net/zamboni.htm
Maybe they should change the name now to ZamBOOMi.
That happened once in my basement.
Crap. Puckistan sleeper cells have awakened.
I went to a Fight and a hockey game broke out.......
I went to a broom-ball game and a fire broke out.......
What year was this song recorded, do you recall?
CA....
Nope, they are now electric or the olderones are propane/ natural gas.
***Zambonis are related to SUVs and can blow up when they feel like it.***
But...but....Soccer Moms LOVE them.
Cool!
Huh. I've never heard of this happening before.
Frank J. Zamboni 1901-1988
If necessity is the mother of invention, Frank J. Zamboni might be considered its father. This tireless inventor/entrepreneur never came across an obstacle he couldn't tinker his way around.
Frank moved to Southern California in 1922 with his brother Lawrence to join their older brother George in his auto repair business. After a short time tinkering on cars, the two younger Zambonis decided to open an electrical service business catering to the local dairy industry. The brothers built and installed the large refrigerator units dairies used to keep their milk cool.
When the demand for cooling expanded into the produce industry, the brothers expanded their business vision, as well: they built a plant that made the block ice that wholesalers used to pack their product for transport by rail across the country. But as refrigeration technology improved, demand for block ice began to shrink, and Frank and Lawrence started looking for other ways to capitalize on their expertise with ice.
That opportunity came in the sport of ice skating. Popularity of the sport was growing, but there were few rinks in Southern California, so in 1939 Frank, Lawrence, and a cousin built Iceland Skating Rink in Paramount. (The rink still operates today just blocks from the Zamboni® factory. In fact, it's not unusual to see Zamboni ice resurfacers driving down the neighborhood streets on their way to be tested at Iceland.)
Iceland opened in 1940 as one of the largest rinks in the country, with 20,000 sq. ft. of iced surface -- that's enough room for 800 skaters. The original rink was an open-air facility. But the brothers soon learned that, with the intense Southern California sun and dry desert winds, the quality of their ice sheet was less than adequate, so they covered it with a domed roof. The challenge now was to maintain this much-improved indoor surface.
At the time, resurfacing the ice meant pulling a scraper behind a tractor, shaving the surface. Three or four workers would scoop away the shavings, spray water over the surface, squeegee it clean and allow the water to freeze -- a process that took more than an hour. For Frank, it was a puzzle to be solved: how could he make a good sheet of ice in a short period of time? It wasn't long before he began engineering a machine that would make the task of ice-resurfacing fast and efficient. And the concept of the Zamboni ice resurfacer was born...
I know I've heard it at games for around 10 years now.
Thanks to FR, I now know what a Zamboni is.
A small vw gasoline engine is one type of power plant often found in Zambonis. Also found are propane and electric power plants.
I used to work for a firm that dealt with the Zamboni family. They were very nice people.
The Canadian Redneck Zamboni is powered by a squad of Yankee refugee lefties on a skookum hamster wheel.
WHAT HAPPEN?
Now there's a headline you don't see every day...
Me too, but I must have missed any report of what happened to the driver on the back of that Zamboni.
I went to a broom-ball game and a fire broke out.......
"Go get elimated!"
I think the driver is now orbiting Mars.
Well, Republicans are in power....
(I mean you never hear of this sort of thing happening under a Democratic administration.)
Hey, watch it, I resemble that remark.
Hockey Ping!
Zam boni set up us the bomb!
I guess I'm not the only one that is really pi$$ed about the NHL lockout.
Propane!
Freep mail or ping me if you want on or off the Hockey Ping List.
The Zamboni family, who have long been the targets of RICO-related investigations, denied any involvement in this bombing, and deplore the actions of both the perpetrators and the media, which seeks to inflame anti-Italian sentiments.
Another member of the dreaded Zam family. Zam phir was the worst, though.
Holy #$^t? Is that for real?
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S5048.html?cat=64
Joe Buckley, the driver of the Zamboni, which resurfaces the ice, said he was sweeping up when the blast occurred.
who won the game?
Sleeper cell alert in Duluth. CODE RED. Zamboni dispatched. I knew this would happen, no doubt a reaction to Saddam's recent plea for all jihadists to unite and destroy America.
Thank you, and ol' Joe Buckley got some more 'splaining to do.:)
Who won?
My guess ... "Rapid Fire." ; )
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/10458401.htm
...There were about seven minutes left in the broomball game between the Rapid Fire and Budweiser teams when the blast occurred.
(snip)
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