If you think you're having a bad day...
     
"Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of 
forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased 
male was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank, flippers 
and face mask.  A post- mortem examination revealed that the person died 
not from burns but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided 
a positive identification.
     
Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver ended 
up in the middle of a forest fire.
     
It was revealed that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving 
trip off the coast--some 20 kilometers away from the forest.  The 
firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible,
called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets.  The buckets were 
dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and 
emptied.
     
You guessed it!!!  One minute our diver was making like Flipper in 
the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 
300m in the air.  Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") 
of the fire.
     
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!!!!!"




J