From hungary-online-owner Fri Mar 10 10:03:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-Hungary-Online Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA02820 for hungary-online-out31415; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:03:29 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA02814 for hungary-online; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:03:14 -0800 Received: via =-=-=-=-= from ddt@lsd.com for hungary-online@hungary.yak.net (hungary-online) Received: from netcom20.netcom.com (root@netcom20.netcom.com [192.100.81.133]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id KAA02739 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:02:09 -0800 Received: from [192.187.167.52] by netcom20.netcom.com (8.6.10/Netcom) id KAA14641; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:01:11 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: Level Seven Design X-PGP-KeyID-Fprnt: 4AAF00E5 - 30D81F3484E6A83F 6EC8D7F0CAB3D265 X-PGP-KeyLocation: ftp.netcom.com:/pub/dd/ddt/crypto/ddtPGPkey.txt Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:04:31 -0800 To: hungary-online@hungary.yak.net From: Dave Del Torto Subject: (HOL) ballistic rat Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Couldn't resist send you guys this horribly off-topic item... dave ______________________________________________________________________________ Safety Tip: Avoid ballistic rats (Don't try this at home, kids.) "In retrospect, lighting the match was my mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve my son's rat." Dick Stone told doctors in the severe burns unit of San Francisco City Hospital. Admitted for emergency treatment after an attempt to retrieve the rat had gone seriously wrong, he explained, "My son left the cage door open, so his rat, Vermin, escaped into the garage. As usual, it looked for a good place to hide, and ran up the exhaust pipe of my motorcycle. I tried to retrieve Vermin by offering him food attached to a string, but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the pipe and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him." At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what had happened next. "The flame ignited a pocket of residual gas and a flame shot out the pipe igniting Mr. Stone's mustache and severely burned his face. It also set fire to the pet rat's fur and whiskers which, in turn, ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the exhaust pipe which propelled the rodent out like a cannonball." Stone suffered second- degree burns, and a broken nose from the impact of the pet rat. His son was grounded for 6 weeks. ############# # This message to Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net # was from Dave Del Torto # # To unsubscribe, # send "unsubscribe" to # An announcement-only subscription (less volume) is available # at # Send mail to for more information, # or to if you need human assistance. #############