1812 Overture - please don't try this at home

Uraguay Times | 08/1998 | unknown

[RedBloodedAmerican]

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[Lurker]

Man oh man, I hope there is video of this somewhere.

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

I wish! I looked and can't find anything on it. Sounds like a stretch but came from a reliable source (email!!)

[evolved_rage]

Let's hope this guy doesn't breed, since Darwin missed him this time!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A Jacksonville, Florida woman recently had to summon emergency help after
dragging her husband down the street behind their pickup truck. Chief
Petty Officer Roman Styles, U.S. Coast Guard Station Jacksonville, was
treated and released with a slight concussion and scrapes and bruises.

It seems that Styles decided to repair damaged shingles on his house
himself, instead of paying a contractor to do it for him. Prior to
climbing up on his steep roof, Officer Styles tied a safety rope to the
trailer hitch of his truck. Once on the peak of his roof he secured the
other end of the line around his waist. He then slid over the top of the
roof to repair the shingles. As luck would have it, right after he
started to work, his teenage son called for a ride home from a Boy Scout
trip. Jane Styles yelled to her husband she'd be right back and pulled
away. "I didn't see the rope," Mrs. Styles said, "until I saw it in the
rear-view mirror. By then I was half-way down the street."

Bill Schlimm, a next door neighbor, said, "I'll never forget the look on
Roman's face as he came sailing over the peak of that house. If it hadn't
been for that tall cedar tree he would have been really hurt."

[TroutStalker]

Kudos to the author for writing a beautiful description of the event.

[pocat]

BUMP - BANG!

[dighton]

Pyrotechnic ping.

[dighton]

BØØM!

[Notforprophet]

Bump for humor

[Dacus943]

Even if this story is C*R*A*P - you gotta admit its beautifully written C*R*A*P!!!

[Squantos]

ROTFLMBO !! Hey Watch This !!............ I will be counting fingers after the 4th so .............

Stay Safe Ya'll !

[LibWhacker]

Urban legend, though I'd never heard it before. The bit about the explosion knocking everyone over in the audience was the tip-off for me. :-)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

How do they disprove it?

[fnord]

Great story. Couldn't find it on snopes, so maybe it's true.

No clear status on the roofer one, probably just a legend:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/mi shaps/roofman.htm

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I recall seeing a website a few years back where you could look up thename of every enlisted personnel in any branch, including the USCG. I wonder if Styles is listed in there.

[LibWhacker]

Not sure . . . Maybe by trying to contact someone at "The Uraguay Times." I was suspicious from the very start; the writing style tends to give 'em away. It's like one guy is out there writing all these urban-legend stories. :-)

[Catspaw]

Who'd he think he was? Keith Moon?

[Hessian]

Johnny Carson told this story one night on THE TONIGHT SHOW years ago.

In Carson's version, the mishaps for the poor husband were just beginning.

The fellow spent several days in the hospital. His wife planned a big party for him when he came home. In her preparation, she decided to re-fill all the cigarette lighters in the house. She did this by holding the lighters over the toilet, so that any spilled fluid would be contained.

The husband, upon coming home, went to the restroom and had himself a smoke. When he tossed the cigarette butt into the toilet, the bathroom exploded.

At least that's the way Johnny told it!