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Subject: [Leica] Ferraris and Fire Hydrants
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:24:40 -0600
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When I worked in TV news, I got to a fire in the French Quarter at the same
time as one of the Fire Engines.  A car blocking the fire hydrant was
bulldozed  clear with the truck.




On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk> wrote:

> Do you remember the film 'Backdraft'?  There's a scene where the fire
> crews turn up at a fire and can't get to a hydrant because a car is in the
> way.  So they smash the car's windows and thread the hoses through the car.
>  Seems to me the arrogant so and so's that park in front of fire hydrants
> could do with a lesson like that...:-)
>
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> On 28/01/2012 09:19, H&ECummer wrote:
>
>>
>> On my way back from the lion dance I passed this black ferrari in front
>> of a fire hydrant.
>> In Hong Kong there is some attraction between Ferrari drivers and fire
>> hydrants
>> I see them parked in front of them all the time.
>> And I think Ferraris should only be RED not black.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2012/**
>> FerrariFireW.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2012/FerrariFireW.jpg.html>
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>> Howard
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Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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