Posted on 03/22/2005 7:42:49 PM PST by WKB
Think they call that "instant justice"
Hehe, old time TV tech stories are the best. When I was in tech school one of my doofus classmates decided he wanted in install headphones on an old tv. He found the audio line easily enough. Unfortunately he forgot or did not comprehend the concept of isolate chassis. He compounded his mistake by putting the headphones on and then powering up the tv. Imagine a short rotund redheaded fellow named Tater howling and jumping around with smoke boiling out of his headphones!
Darwin's theory manifests itself in strange ways.
When I was six, my neighbor used me as his spark testing assistant on a lawn mower he was working on. I have respected plug wires ever since. My first car was a 72 Cutlass and I discovered the joys of adjusting points. The screw driver flew across the yard accompanied by unrepeatable oaths. Went to the junkyard the next day and got an electronic setup to replace it.
I just did some re-wiring on a building w/ 200 amp service. As a `weekend warrior', I prefer plumbing: if you make a boo-boo, you just get wet.
Stupid is as Stupid does...
That's smart for more than one reason. :^)
One time I was working on an electric clothes dryer... Stupidly I plugged it in and everything seemed to be working. Then I went to put the cover on the back and noticed that one of the 220 blocks was loose. I started to go to tighten it up and it fell of and shorted against my hand.
POOOWWWW
Sat me down on my butt... I sat there and my teeth were buzzing and my right arm was numb. "It was WOW Lets do that again :-)"
Yeah I stick to plumbing now...
What in heck is the value of stolen copper wire and what is it used for? And I am going to predict that this mans family will sue because there was no warning sign about climbing pole and touching wires. Just wait and see. I bet John Edwards is speed dialing his home right now.
At the Darwin Awards Ceremony - the envelop please. And the winner is.........
Shocking
How?
Yep
Rofl
ROTFLOL!
YES! "mortification"
LOL-LOL-LOL
You mean this copper clapper:
Webb: "This is the City. Los Angeles, California. Some people rob for pleasure. Some rob because it's there. You never know. My name's Friday, I'm a cop. I was working the day watch out of Robbery when I got a call from the Acme School Bell Company. There'd been a robbery."
Carson: "There's been a robbery."
Webb: "Yes sir, what was it?"
Carson: "My clappers!"
Webb: "Your clappers?"
Carson: "Yeah, you know, those things inside a bell that makes them clang?"
Webb: "The clangers?"
Carson: "That's right, we call them clappers in the business."
Webb: "A clapper caper."
Carson: "What's that?"
Webb: "Nothing sir. Now, can I have the facts? What kind of clappers were stolen on this caper?"
Carson: "They were copper clappers."
Webb: "And where were they kept?"
Carson: "In the closet."
Webb: "Uh huh. You have any ideas who might have taken the copper clappers from the closet?"
Carson: "Well, just one. I fired a man. He swore he'd get even."
Webb: "What was his name?"
Carson: "Claude Cooper"
Webb: "You think he'd..."
Carson: "That's right. I think Claude Cooper copped my copper clappers. Kept in the closet."
Webb: "You know where this Claude Cooper is from?"
Carson: "Yuh. Cleveland"
Webb: "That figures. That figures."
Carson: "What makes it worse, they were clean."
Webb: "Clean copper clappers."
Carson: "That's right."
Webb: "Why do you think Cleveland's Claude Cooper would cop your clean copper clappers kept in your closet?"
Carson: "Only one reason."
Webb: "What's that?"
Carson: "He's a kleptomaniac."
Webb: "Who first discovered the copper clappers were copped?"
Carson: "My cleaning woman, Clara Clifford."
Webb: "That figures. Now let me see if I got the facts straight here. Cleaning woman Clara Clifford discovered your clean copper clappers kept in a closet were copped by Claude Cooper the kleptomaniac from Cleveland. Now, is that about it?"
Carson: "One other thing."
Webb: "What's that?"
Carson: "If I ever catch kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from Cleveland who copped my clean copper clappers kept in the closet..."
Webb: "Yes?"
Carson: "I'll clobber him!"
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