POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Swell. : Re: Swell. Server Time
5 Sep 2024 15:25:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Swell.  
From: Stefan Viljoen
Date: 10 Nov 2009 01:40:54
Message: <4af90af5@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen schrieb:
> 
>> Read a while ago that the RAF had to pay compensation to almost a hundred
>> car owners - one of their air-defense "steerable-array" radars went
>> haywire and scanned over a road - they burned out almost every vehicle's
>> ignition and fuel injection microprocessors with the radar beam!
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> That reminds me of the tale told by an old acquaintance of mine, who had
> served on some air-defense radar installation, of how they'd keep an
> older fellow soldier at bay when he got all enraged and charging for the
> hilltop bunker they were sitting in.
> 
> You know, the old guy had a pacemaker... so pace he did make when he saw
> those radar antennae slowly closing in on his direction...

Hahahaha! This is the best one I've heard in a long time. :)

Don't come near us, or we'll zap you! :0
-- 
Stefan Viljoen


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