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Winch, yes! Drill, no!

2006 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

A recent incident I had with one of my late friends was just after christmas. he was 34 and quite a footballaholic, he had got what he wanted for christmas, a FIFA style football and began to play with it everywhere, including at home. He accidentally kicked it out of his window and it fell 4 stories into a nearly inaccesible alleyway. He lived in a large appartment that over looked that alleyway and so set about getting a plan to retrive his expensive possesion back. he came up with the plan of going out the window on a length of rope to get to the ground floor, simple. The mistake was that he planned to get up again by winding in the rope on a drilling machine, another one of his hobbies. The falling machineary took out three windows and a section of wall before crushing my friend and his hopes of retriving his ball safely.

Submitted on 02/18/2006

Submitted by: David main
Reference: personal account 29/12/2001

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
I must say your late friend was rather creative in his plans to retrieve the ball! Wile E. Coyote would be proud of him. I liked this story and will vote to keep it as a PA! Thanks, David!


Jack said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Good story, David! This is another one that calls for a cartoon to illustrate it...


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