[BC] OOOOOOOps

[Larry Bloomfield]

Bob:

I posed the same questions and asked about a possible law suite. You 
really don't want to know the answers I got. I wasn't there. I've been 
on the Road Show for the past nearly three months. What I can say is 
that were I CE there, heads would roll on both sides of the fence. My 
buddy is just glad that as CE this isn't part of a Naval installation or 
he'd be court-martialled and his carrier would be terminated..

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Bob Boxer wrote:

>Some questions come to mind.  First, where was the driver/operator?  Why
>wasn't he supervising the filling operation, especially on a new vehicle?
>Seems like he's got some responsibility here.
>
>Also, I thought gas pumps require some back pressure to operate.  If you
>just squeeze the trigger, nothing happens.  It's unlikely that the typical
>mousehole on an ENG van would provide the needed back pressure.
>
>How much gas got pumped into the truck?  Unless the thing blew up,  I can't
>imagine that it couldn't be cleaned up.
>
>Not looking to doubt your story, but inquiring minds wanna know...
>
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>Hi all:
>
>There are only two states where motorists are not permitted to pump their
>own gas: Oregon and New Jersey. As you can no doubt imagine, this would come
>back to bite someone where it hurts - one day.
>
>The city of Portland, Oregon has more people in it than the rest of the
>entire state put together. It would, therefore, stand to reason that it
>would have its share of idiots as well.
>
>Picture this – a brand-new ENG truck just received from the factory with all
>the bells and whistles an ENG truck worthy of operating in the nation’s
>24^th largest television market would have in and on it. The first thing
>you’d probably do is to send it to the local gas station to ensure that it
>is filled and ready to go on it’s first assignment; right?. We all know that
>there are many kinds of portals around this vehicle for the feeding of
>cables of various types and purposes.
>
>Now the village idiot was hired by this particular gas station to pump gas.
>When the ENG truck pulled in, did he put the gas nozzle into the gas port?
>Now he picked on of the cable entryways. After an undetermined number of
>gallons had been pumped and the gas began running all over the ground,
>someone had an epiphany that something was awry.
>
>The bottom line is that this new ENG truck was written off by the insurance
>company as a total loss. When asked, the Chief Engineer said to me: “Why
>couldn’t it have been one of our oldest trucks.”
>
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