Hamster HooverOK ... I think I have a winner here ... ;)
We used to have a russian dwarf hamster ... In a rotastak system ... With load of external tubing ... Which the hamster used to store food in ...
So the food never went bad... My wife used to hoover out the tubing every so often ...
One day ... Whilst hoovering out the tubing, the hamster decides to poke its head out of it's bedding home ...
Imagine it's surprise when it was sucked down the tubing into the hoover ...
I received a distrught phone call at work, from my wife, to let me know what had happened ...
She had open the hoover to find the hamster still alive & had phoned the vets ... They had told her to bring it down instantly ...
When she arrived the person on the desk, trying to stop laffing, just pointed, for the vets benefit, to the hamster trying explain what had happened ...
The hamster survived the hoover tube journey ... But died at an early age ... :(
BSK :D
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:39,
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We used to have a russian dwarf hamster ... In a rotastak system ... With load of external tubing ... Which the hamster used to store food in ...
So the food never went bad... My wife used to hoover out the tubing every so often ...
One day ... Whilst hoovering out the tubing, the hamster decides to poke its head out of it's bedding home ...
Imagine it's surprise when it was sucked down the tubing into the hoover ...
I received a distrught phone call at work, from my wife, to let me know what had happened ...
She had open the hoover to find the hamster still alive & had phoned the vets ... They had told her to bring it down instantly ...
When she arrived the person on the desk, trying to stop laffing, just pointed, for the vets benefit, to the hamster trying explain what had happened ...
The hamster survived the hoover tube journey ... But died at an early age ... :(
BSK :D
boil in the tank fishi was recently looking after my sisters goldfish and broke the tank filter. trying to fix it i messed around with what i thought must be some thing to do with the filter mecanism but was actually the temperature regulator. anyway, i thought i'd sorted the tank out till three days later i found the fish floating upside down in a tank of hot water. i can only assume the cold water fish were slowly cooked alive. ooops.
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:43,
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Re: hoover hamsterThis reminds me of a true story that I was told many years ago.
I had a pal work for the gas board. He got a call out to a suspected gas explosion at a residential house. When he got there the only damage he could see was a smashed front door and a burnt out vacuum cleaner in the middle of the garden. Transpired that the lady of the house was vacuuming the hallway and a mouse ran across the floor and was sucked up into the cleaner. She was freaked somewhat and worried that the mouse was dying an awful death inside the machine. So she thought she'd better put it out of its misery and make sure it was dead. She took a cannister of camping gas, broke the nozzle and pumped the contents into the dustbag.
Then deciding the mouse must be dead by now she decided to carry on vacuuming the floor and switched on the machine....erm hang on the machine is full of gas.
Boom, the vacuum cleaner shot thru the hall, smashing thru the front door to land in a smoking heap in the garden.
My pal nearly wet himself laughing when he found out what happened.
He also has an interesting story about an explosion at a chicken shed, but maybe another time for that one *g*
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Thu 16 Oct 2003, 1:46,
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I had a pal work for the gas board. He got a call out to a suspected gas explosion at a residential house. When he got there the only damage he could see was a smashed front door and a burnt out vacuum cleaner in the middle of the garden. Transpired that the lady of the house was vacuuming the hallway and a mouse ran across the floor and was sucked up into the cleaner. She was freaked somewhat and worried that the mouse was dying an awful death inside the machine. So she thought she'd better put it out of its misery and make sure it was dead. She took a cannister of camping gas, broke the nozzle and pumped the contents into the dustbag.
Then deciding the mouse must be dead by now she decided to carry on vacuuming the floor and switched on the machine....erm hang on the machine is full of gas.
Boom, the vacuum cleaner shot thru the hall, smashing thru the front door to land in a smoking heap in the garden.
My pal nearly wet himself laughing when he found out what happened.
He also has an interesting story about an explosion at a chicken shed, but maybe another time for that one *g*