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From: John Nunley <nunley@goodnet.com>
Subject: Dust Off Your Funny Bone
Date: 1997/07/16
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               General Stupidity                   `
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    Three janitors at an elementary school           .  ~= -o   | 
 in Ceres, California, tried to freeze a gopher          ~` |___|     
 to death by spraying it with a solvent that         .'  _____|_____
 freezes gum and wax so it can be peeled or             |           |
 chipped away. Jeff Davis, 35, said he and his          |~~~~~~~~~~~|
 colleagues had sprayed several cans of the gum         |           |
 remover on the gopher inside a small, poorly           |   c---c   |
 ventilated utility room with the doors closed          |   /o o\   |
 when one of them tried to light a cigarette.           |  (= T =)  |
 Sparks from the lighter ignited the solvent,           |   '-W-'   |
 causing an explosion that blew the janitors out        |           |
 of the utility room, sending them and 16 pupils        |           |
 to the hospital. The gopher survived and was           |           |
 later released in a field. Ceres Unified School        |           |
 District Superintendent Bruce Newlin commented         |~~~~~~~~~~~|
 that the men "used extraordinarily poor             jgs`-=========-`
 judgment."
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