Very funny, BB.
For some reason, this compels me to relate a brief line uttered by a local
newsman a month or 2 ago, no second-hand, heard it myself:
"The brother of the suspect, Cary Staynor, tragically died in 1988 after he
was killed in a motorcycle accident."
What are the odds of that, I thought? :>)
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry B. Bean <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Legends and Myths
>I'll never forget the time I was summiting Everest in the first no
>oxygen solo nude boxing gloves and roller skates ascent. I reached
>around for trusty OM1 when...Damn! the strap broke. As I saw the
>camera skittling over the ice towards an enormous cornice I knew I
>had to make a choice: Play it safe ane let the camera go, or SAVE MY
>OLY!
>
>Naturally, I opted to save my Om-1, and dove after it, unfortunately
>breaking the cornice and sending the camera and I both hurtling
>towards the large shelf 1500 feet below. As luck would have it, the
>strap slowed the camera down and I was able to grab it just in time
>to snap a few action shots of snow falling off the cornice above
>before the camera and I hit the ledge.
>
>Naturally, I was killed on impact. Dead as a doornail. But the same
>OM-1continues to take pictures to this day.
>
>BBB
>
>Wanna hear the one about the time it took a bullet while covering the
>South Central LA riots?
>
>On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:18:16 +0000, Giles wrote:
>
>>
>>Someone on the list once recounted how their OM-4Ti had fallen from a
moving truck,
>> had been picked up, then proceeded to work perfectly for the
>>following 10 years or so.
>>
>>I think that qualifies.
>>
>>Perhaps we could embellish the tale slightly before release with some
bouncing into
>>the path of an oncoming 18 wheeler, or two trailer road train on the
Nullabor, being
>>run over by said vehicle and then having to be prised out of the asphalt
(Macadam)
>>with a crow bar;-)
>-
>B.B. Bean - Have horn, will travel bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Peach Orchard, MO http://www.beancotton.com/bbbean.shtml
>
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