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From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion of people!
Message-ID: <1159@utai.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 10:48:14 EST
Article-I.D.: utai.1159
Posted: Mon Jan 13 10:48:14 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jan-86 11:49:45 EST
References: <34@druky.UUCP>
Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Lines: 27
Keywords: get serious
Summary: 

In article <34@druky.UUCP> krahl@druky.UUCP (R.H. Krahl) writes:
>>certain people have suppossedly spontaneously combusted. Usually their
>>charred remains are found. I would appreciate any information that people
>>might have regarding this suppossed phenomenom. I would especially like to
>>learn about any possible written material regarding this rather amazing claim.
>>        Thanks. I'll post any information I get if anyone is interested
>>.        Peter Espen
>
>Get Serious!  Either you've been watching too much of The Twilight Zone or
>hitting the wackie tobaccie a little too heavily in my opinion.  :-)

It's not so silly, after all.  Tomorrow evening (Jan. 14, 1986),
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is airing a show examining
the topic.  "20/20" (similar to "60 Minutes" in the States), as an
in-depth news programme, would not spend an hour seriously looking
at this if it were totally ridiculous.

-- 
Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 1A4

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