Fw: Re: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Temperatures acceptable for equipment while flying.....?

[Richard Strickland]

Sent the little story out to my car guy group and this came back.....

RS
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From: "Pam&Richard Strickland" <pamrich47 at hotmail.com>
To: <richard.s at allied-callaway.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: FW: Re: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Temperatures acceptable for equipment while
flying.....?


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>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Thomas F. White &lt;t.f.white at att.net&gt;
> Reply-To: treacherous at yahoogroups.com
> To: treacherous at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Temperatures acceptable for equipment while
> flying.....?
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:24:41 -0600
>
> Now when I lived in Saudi Arabia a friend in Loss Prevention said he
> got a loss report that described a very similar situation...
>
> There is a large lizard called a Dhub (the dh is a hard th sound as in
> then) that lives in the desert and is a favorite of the Arabs as either
> a pet or as a food delicacy.  The story goes that a company employee
> was driving his company pickup through the desert when a thub ran
> across the track in front of him.  The employee jumped out and chased
> it -whether he wanted it as food or for a pet is not known.  It ran
> into a hole and as the burrows usually have two entrances, he went back
> to the truck for a can of gasoline.  He poured some in the hole and
> carefully placing the can away from the hole and near the truck, he lit
> the gasoline and watched for the thub to emerge from another hole.
> Apparently there was no rear entrance as a flaming thub ran out of the
> hole, - you guessed it - knocked over the open gas can on his way to
> hide under the truck.  The truck, and presumably the thub burned to the
> ground stranding the man in the desert.  When he filled out the loss
> report in answer to &quot;How did this loss occur?&quot; he wrote &quot;A
> thub set my
> truck on fire.&quot;
>
> Supposedly a true story but perhaps someone there had read Jack
> London....
>
>

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