[BITList] Norwegian Fire Department

[franka]

One dark night outside a small town in Michigan , a fire started inside 
the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into 
massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles 
around.


When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical 
company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret 
formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be 
saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out 
intact."


But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.


Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became 
desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the 
offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the 
company's secret files.


 From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came 
into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire 
department composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To 
everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past 
all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.


Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno.
Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped 
off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was 
a performance and effort never seen before.


Within a short time, the Norwegian old timers had extinguished the fire 
and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company 
president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the 
reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the 
brave fire fighters.


The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, 
asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"


"Vell," said Eino Karpinen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing 
ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!"


	

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