Flipper in the Forest 
 
 If you think you're having a bad day... 
 
 Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of
 forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased 
 male was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank, flippers
 and face mask. 
 
 A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from burns,
 but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
 identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad
 diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that, on
 the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast --
 some 20 MILES away from the forest. 
 
 The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible,
 called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets were
 dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire
 and emptied. You guessed it! One minute our diver was making like Flipper
 in the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket
 300m in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") of the
 fire. 
 
 Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed!!