Deep fried Casio 
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A few years ago I worked at an Italian restaurant in Legoland, Windsor. On the side of the restaurant was a Burger Window. A co-worker who I shall call James to protect his privacy (just a co-incidence that the name I chose was his real name as well.) was well known for a being a bit of a klutz - cutting himself with knives, squashing his hand in the pizza press machine etc.
One day he was working in the Burger window, cooking the fries. As he shook the basket with the chips in, his watch fell off into the 400 degree fat. Instinctively he plunged his hand in, and rescued the watch, which was by now molten and useless. It was then that he realised he was burnt up to his elbow, and ran out of the window area into the main restaurant, out the back and down the service road all the way to the nurse's office.
Nobody got any fries for a couple of hours, as we had to wait until the fat had cooled before we could change it.
"James" was off work for a week or so, then on his first day back he slipped on some stray oil on the floor and burnt his other hand steadying himself on the burger cooker.
He was then given the less dangerous job of welcoming people to the restaurant.
BENJi Robertson Submitted on 04/02/2002
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