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Fire
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:31:26 +0100 uk.people.silversurfers
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One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside a
local chemical plant and in the blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around. When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the centre of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact." But the roaring flames held the fire-fighters off. Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files. From the distance, a lone Jackie...
siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Ashby, Minnesota township volunteer fire company, composed mainly of Norwegian bachelor farmers. To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by these Norwegians passed all the sleek new engines parked outside the plant and drove straight into the middle of the inferno! Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before. Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president joyfully announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave, elderly Norskes. The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money?" "Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "da furst thing ve do is fix da brakes on dat fooooing truck!" |