Different Maintenace Methods (WOB)

[Jim Cash <j.cash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of "reported" examples of how NOT to fix your vehicle
  - you say you have a noise somewhere underneath your bimmer?


Cheers

Jim Cash
London, Ontario, Canada


     
[Kalamazoo Gazette] James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of 
Alamo, Mich., was killed in March as he was trying to repair what 
police described as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive 
the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could 
ascertain the source of a troubling noise.  Burns' clothes caught on 
something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the 
drive shaft."
     
     
[Arkansas Democrat Gazette] Two local 
men were seriously injured when their pick-up truck left the road and 
struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday 
morning. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident 
shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and 
Billy Ray Wallis,38, of Little Rock are listed in serious condition at 
Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred as the two men were 
returning to Des Arc after a frog gigging trip. On an overcast Sunday 
night, Poole's pick-up truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men 
concluded that the headlight fuse on the older model truck had burned 
out. As replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the 
.22 caliber bullet from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box 
next to the steering wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet, the 
headlights again began to operate properly and the two men proceeded 
on east-bound toward the White River bridge. After traveling 
approximately twenty miles and just before crossing the river, the 
bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right 
testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply to the right exiting the 
pavement and striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and 
abrasions from the accident, but will require surgery to repair the 
other wound. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and 
released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his 
_____ off or we might both be dead" stated Wallis. "I've been a 
trooper for ten years in this part of the world, but this is a first 
for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident 
happened," said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia, 
Poole's wife asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone 
get them from the truck.

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