[TowerTalk] Tower Incident Joke

[Larry stowell]

I heard the story back in the 70's at the Rochester, NY Hamfest. Old man Mosley was giving an
antenna talk and told it with a wooden barrel being pulled up a tower to put all the pieces of
antenna in for refurbishing the climber came down and let the rope loose and the barrel was heavier
then him, he became tangled in the rope and up the tower he went , the barrel hitting the ground and
the bottom came out with the antenna parts and down he came hitting the barrel on the way down.

73 Larry K1ZW

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alan
NV8A
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:40 PM
To: TowerTalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Incident Joke

On 12/03/10 12:18 pm, jimlux wrote:

>> A few years ago, someone (a ham) sent a story around, actually a joke
>> someone put together having to do with a ham climbing a tower, the climber
>> falling..only to meet the toolbag halfway down, etc.
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>> I recall reading it and laughing aloud.
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>> Not that falling from a tower is funny, mind you.
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>> Does anyone recall what I'm talking about and perhaps have a copy of that
>> story/joke?
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>
> a variant on the old "barrel of bricks" story, no doubt?

Gerard Hoffnung's version of it was played from time to time on BBC 
Radio WIWAL:

http://www.bluegum.com/Humour/Assorted/bricks.html

73

Alan NV8A
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