One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the
local chemical plant and in a blink it exploded into massive flames.
The alarm went out to all fire departments from miles around. When the
volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company
president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret formulas
are
in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved and I will
give
$50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire
departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate.
As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now
$100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret
files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into
sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company
composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement,
the little run-down fire engine, operated by these Norwegians, passed all
the newer sleek engine parked outside the plant... and drove straight into
the middle of the inferno!!!!
Outside the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old-timers jumped off
and
began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Norsk old timers had extinguished the fire and
saved the formulas.
The grateful chemical company president joyfully announced that for such a
superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to
personally thank each of the brave, though elderly, Norsk fire fighters.
The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film
asking, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell, Said Ole Larson, the 70-year old fire chief, "Dafurst ting ve do is
fix da brakes on dat focking truck!"
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boersch Wolfsburg Wizard
407 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·
