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Stick figures?
"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 6/14/2014 11:06 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> I had a cousin killed by his own car. He was working on it in the
>> driveway and didn't have it jacked up properly. It fell on him.
>> Perhaps if someone else had been home at the time, he could have been
>> saved. But this was in Southern CA in the roasting sun. By the time he
>> was found, he was sort of cooked to death. He hadn't had his license
>> for long either. So still young. 
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> Sorry to hear of this. That's pretty horrible.
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> I almost got kilt while working under a car when I disconnected a fuel
> line and spilled a bunch of gas on the floor. I watched with dismay as the
> gas made it's way towards the exposed bulb of the shop light on the
> ground. Moving the light and turning it off would be difficult because I
> was holding the two ends of the fuel line together to stop the leaking. In
> the end, I had to let go of the lines and grab the light and shut it off.
> That was pretty scary - I just hoped that the switch on the light didn't
> generate a spark, cause that would mean it that my funeral would have to
> be closed casket.
>
> Letting the lines go did drop a lot of fuel but sometimes you just got to
> let the lines go. What I learned about gasoline is that if the back of
> your shirt is saturated with gas, it could cause some nasty chemical
> burns. My back looked like alligator skin for a while. What they say is
> true - the experience didn't kill me and it did make me stronger. Well,
> smarter, at least.
How awful!
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