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Topic: Practical Jokes on "newbies"
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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 08-19-1999 03:02 PM
This is not quite on topic, but, I was working on an antique radio a few years ago in my shop. The owner of the next-door shop would come in and pickup, and look at stuff, and go Hmmmm. Irritated me to death.Oh yes, he owned the building. I left a charged capacitor sitting out with the wires bent so you would have to make contact if you picked it up without knowing how. I went into the back warehouse. About 15 seconds later, I heard a yelp. I rushed back and found him standing there holding his fingers. He had thrown the cap straight up, and it was sticking out of the ceiling tile. He threatened to sue me, but I pointed out that I had a sign telling unauthorized people to keep out, and he dropped the subject. The cap was still there when I moved to another location without nosy neighbors. He never bothered me anymore, and everybody lived happily ever after. Bruce Grimm
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Rick Long
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 759
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-19-1999 04:43 PM
Strange things do happen in projection booths. Back in the carbon-arc days, my Dad got a call from the local B.A. to "get down to the Paramount right away, the man's sick". Dad hadn't had supper yet so he stopped off at a variety store, next to the theatre, to grab something to eat. He selected a can of pork & beans. He got to the theatre and put the beans in the lamphouse to warm up. Unfortunately he neglected to vent the can. Middle of the reel, there was a loud bang, the side doors of the Peerless Magnarc arc-lamp flew open and close again, and there were beans all over the booth. The manager came running up, looked in the booth and slowly walked away, shaking his head. Eleven years later, we overhauled the E-7 projectors and found traces of beans in the shutter housing.
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