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Re: O/T Beaten with a chain
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Posted by Lloyd Llama on June 17, 2006 at 17:09:02 from (207.241.138.131):
In Reply to: Re: O/T Beaten with a chain posted by Ron,ar on June 17, 2006 at 10:07:55:
Years ago, a friend of mine - a Chevy dealer had a black walnut tree at the back of his lot. About the time the walnuts would start to fall each year he would go out, hook the chain from his wrecker to the tree, with plenty of slack, and then let the wrecker roll forward in neutral, until the chain would come tight, jerking the tree a good one, and bringing the walnuts thundering down. That saved a lot of dents and stains on the cars inadvertantly parked under the tree. One fall, he went out to do his annual chore - except the wrecker operator failed to inform him that he had really reefed on the cahin recovering a smashed car the nite before...... Chain snapped, whipped around, took the whole lightbar off the roof of the wrecker - demolished it.. Nuff said.
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