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Re: [OM] HOW DO THEY DIE?

Subject: Re: [OM] HOW DO THEY DIE?
From: gma <gma@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:28:14 -0800
WD NAGEL wrote:
> 
> I have a story about my OM4T.  I was walking in the subway in NYC last
> year, when I was approached by a mugger.  He demanded that I handed my
> much loved OM4T over to him!  I replied, "NOT ON YOUR LIFE.  I WOULD
> RATHER DIE THEN GIVE YOU MY #@!%*&$ OM4T!"  He replied, "OK."  Pulled
> out a gun and fired a round at me.  The bullet ricocheted off the
> titanium pentaprism on my OM4T, off a steel beam for the ceiling of the
> subway platform, then hit the mugger.  The bullet went clear through his
> heart. As he laid on the ground dying, I looked over my camera and saw
> it was OK, so I told him to say "cheeeesssse" and took his picture.  The
> camera still works to this day!  I guess no one should %@&! with an
> OM4T!
> 

-- 
WOW!  That's even more impressive than the story of the OM-1 and 2 that
fought the Marcos regime!

Love it.

My story is not as exciting.  My OM-4T has fought valiant, though
brief,  battles with that inexorable enemy, gravity, on 2 occasions.
Final score: Gravity 1; Olympus 1, as only the second battle required a
trip to the hospital ship.

george  :>)

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