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Re: Had to share...



Paul Gale wrote:

> A delivery driver just dropped something off and while he was here
asked if I knew why his phone wasn’t charging (as if I don’t have better
things to do!). Anyway, it was a standard cigarette lighter charging lead.
I suggested the lighter may not be working or the fuse may have blown and
recommended trying the lighter in the socket to see if it got warm.
Unfortunately, before I could stop him, he pulled out the lighter and
pressed his finger hard onto the lighter element!
>
> A large amount of smoke and the stench of burning flesh later, he
admitted to not being a smoker!
>
> … It was the sizzling sound it made that really made me cringe :-(

It's people like him that the Darwin awards were invented for ;->


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