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</lurk> Christopher X. Candreva <[email protected]>, tearfully said: > >On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jeff Weisberg wrote: > >> [Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck >> havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, >> a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. >> The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting >> fireball. > >While this is funny, I really hope the backhoe driver was OK. If you're concerned about the injuries, this is a link to the closest AP story I found. http://www.bergen.com/region/gas0919981009.htm "One worker, whose name was not released, was burned on his right arm, said Patrolman Troy Midgette. Ruggiero said it was a minor burn. ... A backhoe was engulfed in flames at the excavation site ... " <lurk> :) -- Erik Neuenschwander Research Associate, Stanford PTL at CSLI [email protected] http://pcd.stanford.edu/captology/ [email protected] http://www.stanford.edu/~erikn/ "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire
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