A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in
the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped
into gear. The man, still holding onto the handle bars, was dragged through the glass
patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.
The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room and found her
husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him, and the
shattered patio door. The wife ran to the phone and summoned the ambulance. Because they
lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of stairs to the
street to escort the paramedics to her husband.
After the ambulance arrived and transported the man to the hospital, the
wife up righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas was spilled on the
floor, the wife got some paper towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in
the toilet. The man was treated and released to come home.
Upon arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage
done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet
and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into
the toilet bowl while seated.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion and her
husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His
trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his
legs, and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone to call the ambulance.
The very same paramedic crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the
street. The paramedics loaded the husband on to the stretcher and began carrying him to
the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife,
one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself.
She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them
slipped and tipped the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining
stairs and broke his arm.
Taken from a Florida Newspaper.
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