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Old 03-05-2005, 09:16 PM   #1
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(27 March 27 1981) Late one March evening, Bruce Thompson woke up at the foot of a utility pole in the woods, his dog asleep by his side, and a crispy, dead raccoon nearby. Thompson realized he had suffered severe burns on his forearms, hands and genitals, which were eventually amputated.
The details came out in court, when Bruce sued the utility company for removing him from the gene pool.

He had been out ’coon hunting when his dog “caught the scent” and eagerly chased a raccoon up a power pole. The raccoon perched on a glass insulator. Bruce was prepared for just such an event, and brought out his trusty steel pole climbers. He strapped them to his boots, and made his way a dozen feet up the pole.

He began “squalling at the raccoon and slapping the pole,” causing the startled raccoon to run back and forth on the cross arm, and hit an un-insulated copper wire. That was the last thing Bruce remembered before he woke up at the bottom of the pole.

The court found Bruce contributory negligent, stating succinctly, “It [is] clear that, in climbing the utility pole, slapping and squalling at the raccoon, thereby agitating it when it was perilously close to charged wires, Thompson should have appreciated the hazard that ultimately befell him.”

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Old 03-05-2005, 10:39 PM   #2
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hehe, looks like he has no more legacy to pass on. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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Old 03-06-2005, 03:58 PM   #3
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owwwwwwwwwwww.....that painful...even though he was pretty stupid to climb the pole......and to agitate the racoon... and to hit the pole.....actually..he sorta did deserve it... Remeber kids "stupidity doesn't pay"
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Old 03-06-2005, 09:20 PM   #4
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All that effort just for a little racoon? He did deserve it, though. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 03-08-2005, 09:54 AM   #5
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thank you brucey-boy for so kindly removing yourself from the gene pool, there is more hope now for the rest of us. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 03-08-2005, 12:09 PM   #6
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Old 03-08-2005, 12:36 PM   #7
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It's people like these that make me think mankind is doomed [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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