[PPRAANet] Excerpt from THIS is TRUE #712: 3 February

[Dennis Major - NØABC]

The author of the "This is True" e-newsletter, Randy Cassingham, KØRCC, has 
given me permission to forward this excerpt from the current edition to the 
reflector. Thanks, Randy!

I thought you might get a charge out of it.

73

Dennis
NØABC


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ALL ABOARD: A conductor on a commuter train from Grand Central in New
   York, N.Y., and Stamford, Conn., stopped the train and went up top with
   a fire extinguisher after he noticed a power glitch when the train
   switched from track power to overhead power lines. It was handy that he
   took the extinguisher: a man riding on top of the car had burst into
   flames from the 11,000-14,000 volts that surged through his body after
   the switch-over. It was unclear why he was on top of the train. Thanks
   to the conductor's quick reaction, Ricardo Chavez, 36, was hospitalized
   in fair condition. (White Plains Journal News) ...Clearly, Chavez was
   an excellent conductor too.


Randy's comments on the story:


THERE WAS A DUAL REACTION this week from Premium subscribers on the lead
   story (man on top of train). About half were along the line of
   "funniest tagline EVER!", and the other half was "if he had been a good
   electrical conductor, he wouldn't have burst into flames" -- sometimes
   accompanied by mini treatises on electrical resistance. Sorry, but the
   first group gets it: it was a joke! Talk about letting practicalities
   get in the way of enjoying a fun twist of words....



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