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Comments: 7 +- Idle: Firefighters Save Woman From Fire By Changing the Channel on Thursday July 02, @11:13AM
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on Thursday July 02, @11:13AM
from the idiot-box dept.
from the idiot-box dept.
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An elderly woman in Zurich mistook a fire on her television for the real thing and called the fire department to save her. The firemen found her TV tuned to a German station that airs the constant image of a fireplace in the early morning. "The fire was extinguished with the press of a button," police said in a statement. I wonder who she would have called if she had accidentally tuned into a Godzilla marathon.
Reporter: "How did you like school when you were growing up, Yogi?"
Yogi Berra: "Closed."
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I've been on a fire call where an old lady... (Score:1)
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Being Swiss it seems kind of funny that WE haven't heard anything about this supposed incident.