Cigarette break saves US woman's life
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The pro-smoking lobby got a small boost on Monday after a South Carolina woman cheated death by nipping outside the house for a cigarette.
Brenda Comer, of Rock Hill, had just finished washing the dishes at around 11am when she popped out for a gasper. At that moment, The Seattle Times dramatically recalls, "an 80-foot-tall oak tree, felled by winds gusting up to 40mph, crashed through the roof".
The tree fell directly onto the sink where Comer had been washing up. Her daughter Amy, still inside the wrecked house, escaped unscathed. She recalled: "It sounded like the worst cracking sound you could imagine."
Brenda later told hubby Franky: "Honey, I know you fuss at me for smoking, but today it saved my life." ®
Bootnote
Years ago, I met an old timer who'd been an air warden in London during the Blitz. One night in 1940, he tried to get into a shelter* during a raid but was turned away because he was smoking. As he crossed the road, a bomb hit the building above, which collapsed. More than 170 people in the shelter were killed. Accordingly, whenever his doc suggested he really ought to cut out the cigs, he politely declined.
*Coronation Avenue, Stoke Newington. There's a eyewitness account of the tragedy here.
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COMMENTS
Revenge attack?
Is this a case of the foliage fighting back? "Leaf murderer!" the tree cried, as it carried out it's failed suicide-bludgeoning. Of course, this is America, and we will never compromise our way of life. In the light of this outrage, it's the patriotic duty of every American to begin smoking immediately.
Smoke + Winds
Everyone is missing the point that she was so nicotine addicted that she went out for a fag in 40Mph winds! thats dedication to the cause.
Would she have been there if she was a non-smoker...
If she had not been smoking previously that day she might have finished the washing a few minutes earlier, thus not being there when the tree fell.
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