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- From: TUK067@maccvm.corp.mot.com (David Wheeler)
- Subject: Down by the canal (Joke)
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:25:52 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.105704.18946@schbbs.mot.com>
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- One day, two off-duty paramedics are out walking by their local canal when, a
- few hundred yards along the bank, they see a guy push another into the water
- and run off. They race up, but the assailant has long since disappeared and
- the unfortunate victim is now floating face-down.
-
- One of them dives in and drags him to the bank; they heave his torso out of the
- water and begin to apply artificial resuscitation by pumping on his rib-cage.
- Pump, pump... lots of green water comes up... pump, pump... green water, fish,
- Coke can... pump, pump... green water, old saucepan, frog...
-
- "Boy," says one rescuer to the other, "has he swallowed plenty! Looks like
- this could take a while." Pump, pump... green water, bike frame, green golf
- ball :-), bedstead...
-
- While all this is going on, another guy arrives on the scene. Taking in the
- whole situation at a glance, he hurries over and asks, "What's going on here?
- What are you doing to that poor guy?"
-
- "Don't worry," says one of the rescuers. "We're qualified paramedics; we know
- what we're doing".
-
- "That's as may be," says the new guy, "but I'm a qualified engineer and I'm
- telling you, if you don't get his backside out of the water, you're going to
- pump the canal dry!"
-
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