Scout Related Humor

I just got this one in from a friend at work. It _does_ sound
like an urban myth, but it's _still_ funny.

A Jacksonville, Florida woman recently had to summon emergency help
after dragging her husband down the street behind their pickup truck.
Chief Petty Officer Roman Styles, U.S. Coast Guard Station Jackson-
ville, was treated and released with a slight concussion and scrapes
and bruises.

It seems that Styles decided to repair damaged shingles on his house
himself, instead of paying a contractor to do it for him. Prior to
climbing up on his steep roof, Officer Styles tied a safety rope to
the trailer hitch of his truck. Once on the peak of his roof he
secured the other end of the line around his waist. He then slid
over the top of the roof to repair the shingles.

As luck would have it, right after he started to work, his teenage son
called for a ride home from a Boy Scout trip. Jane Styles yelled to
her husband she'd be right back and pulled away. "I didn't see the
rope," Mrs. Styles said, "until I saw it in the rear-view mirror. By
then I was half-way down the street."

Bill Schlimm, a next door neighbor, said, "I'll never forget the look
on Roman's face as he came sailing over the peak of that house. If it
hadn't been for that tall cedar tree he would have been really hurt."

YiS,

Chuck Bramlet, ASM Troop 323,
Firebird District, Grand Canyon Council, Phoenix, Az. Member DNRC
I "used to be" an Antelope! WEM-10-95 mailto:chuckb@aztec.asu.edu
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