From : Master Jay                                          5 Jul 96
 Subj : YOU'RE having a bad day?                                                
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Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest
while assessing a damage by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a
full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank 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 miles away from the
forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible,
called in a fleet of helicopers 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,
and next he was doing a breast-stroke in a fire bucket 100 ft. in the air.
Apparently, he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire.

And YOU thought you were having some bad days ;-)