Dan Michaels wrote:
> Did anyone happen to watch the torch lighting ceremony during
> the olympics, and notice the incredible design of the torch
> carrier? What a bleedin' heart attack.
>
> First, they get a young lady to stand **inside** the "ring of
> fire", and light it. A little more gas, and poof - roasted lady.
> Oh my.
>
> Then, this contraption gets stuck moving the torch up a rickety
> track, blasting fully lit by then, and only a few feet from 100s
> of spectators in the gallery. Flame and smoke blowing wildly.
>
> What a design!! Anyone else get the willies watching it?
>
> - danM

Yep, did you also notice that it stuffed up at the top of the
ramp too, when the big spike was supposed to lift it?

Do you wonder somewhere if the engineers didn't quite account
for the weight of the water or clearance time of the water
draining out, and it blew a current limit? Seemed just about
the right amount of time for the maintenance electrician to
run down the switchroom looking for the right circuit breaker
yelling "I'm gonna kill that engineer!!" Hee hee!

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