[RFI] Zapped

CR ka5s at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 26 01:59:13 EST 2015


On 2/25/2015 9:37 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> Many years ago when I worked for Mobilecom we had an instance of a homeless
> person getting killed because he noticed how warm it was in the path of one
> of the horns one winter evening.  He smelled like roast turkey.
>
> Kurt


*Origins:*   Those in the telecommunications industry have known the 
"cooked telephone man" legend for many a year now — it's a perennial 
tale among them. One of our correspondents recalls hearing it in 1985, 
soon after he joined British Columbia Telephone Co. Another was regaled 
with it in 1962 by his family, who claimed the accident had happened 
around 1950 in Montana when the DEW line was being installed. As he 
heard ...
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwave.asp


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