One Sunday afternoon in the mid 1980’s, a local ham, whose 
name shall remain anonymous, decided to do some much needed 
yard work.



Everybody else on his street was apparently occupied 
elsewhere, so he would not have the ongoing distraction of 
stopping his work to explain to curious passersby what he 
was doing.



Everything was going well until he whipped out his trusty 
chainsaw to trim some branches that were hanging over his 
house.



In one of those “Yes, Virginia, gravity really does work,” 
moments, the largest branch got away from him.



It missed his house, but took down the power line and the 
cable TV coax.



Only after he ran inside to call the appropriate service 
people did he suddenly realized that the lines that had 
fallen were the main trunk lines which supplied service to 
much of his neighborhood.



This would-be Paul Bunyan kept a very low profile for months 
afterward.



Why?



Because his little misadventure happened on Super Bowl 
Sunday!





Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs