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Date: | Sun, 2 Feb 2014 07:45:44 -0600 |
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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
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