A Bad Day

Something to think about the next time you're having a bad day:

Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out 
section of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest 
fire.  The deceased male was dressed in a full wetsuit, 
complete with a dive tank, flippers and face mask. A post 
mortem examination revealed that the person died not from 
burns but from massive internal injuries.

Dental records provided a positive identification. 
Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver 
ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that, 
on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the 
coast - some 20 kilometers away from the forest.

The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as 
possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large 
buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid 
filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed 
it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, 
the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300m in 
the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") 
of the fire.

Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.