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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Is that out of this world?
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 17:16:04 EST
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True story:

A couple who are friends of the family wanted to retire on a farm. When
the man reached retirement age, he bought a nice 50 acre farm in NY State.
They decided to put a swimming pool in. The people they hired to dig out
the pit that the pool was going in waited until late fall -- as a result the
swimming pool people told the couple that they would have to wait for the
spring to cement in the pool. They covered the pit with plastic.

The farm had a string wire fence around it. The fence had NO TRESSPASSING
signs posted every 10 feet or so.

Winter came. A fool on a snow mobile took *wire cutters* and cut the
fence and drove through. By Murphy's Law he drove right over the
pit and fell 10 feet. The couple hears a terrible noise, goes outside.
They see what has happened and call an ambulance and the police. The
doctors are able to save this fools life -- but his spine is broken and
he is a paraplegic. He sues. He wins his case. The couple have to
sell the farm to meet the costs. The policeman told them at the time
that they should have ignored teh whole thing and let the man die -- because 
then, a corpse would not have put them into this position.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura