How about this one? Car fails for lack of cat-alytic converter.
:-)
Bill Dalton wrote:
> Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com wrote:
> >
> > On 10/20/99 Greg Petrolati wrote:
> > >NO! NO!! don't do that!!!!
> > >You might leave a cat...
> > >God knows I got enough of them!
> >
> > Cats, where the hell did they ever come
> > from? That reminds me of something that
> > happened exactly 23 years ago...
> >
> > Back in the 70's my first wife had a cat.
> > What a black bitch (the cat). One autumn
> > day I decided I had about enough shit
> > from that piece of work. I put the sucker
> > in a cardboard box, punched air holes in
> > it, put the closed box in the back seat of
> > my '67 Firebird and headed for farm
> > country. I was going to be nice about
> > this and let the useless Bag of Hair live.
> >
> > Well, don't you know... that bastard threw
> > a fit and got out of the box while I'm driving
> > around looking for a spot to dump it. The
> > first thing it does is jump on my right shoulder
> > digging its claws 1/4" into my flesh, and starts
> > screaming like a banshee. That was the last
> > straw. I drew the line at physical pain. This cat
> > was going somewhere, anywhere, right now.
> >
> > I grabbed the feline by the neck and ripped
> > it off my shoulder with my left hand while
> > steering with my right. Yikes - did that hurt
> > (while doing 50mph). I yelled "tuck & roll!"
> > and threw that Cat from Hell right out the
> > driver's window - with only incidental contact
> > with the windshield pillar. But it was just
> > enough contact to lessen the flight time.
> >
> > I immediately looked in my rearview mirror
> > to gleefully see that black cat skidding
> > down the road just on the other side of the
> > double yellows. Wheeeeeeee! Oooooooh!
> > Damn! That oncoming car - which I never
> > even noticed in my time of pain - just missed it!
> >
> > By the time the cat slowed down to about a
> > 10-15 mph slide, it suddenly made a miraculous
> > correction. It took off in full stride across the road
> > onto a fairway of a county golf course.
> >
> > With 8 lives left.
> >
> > Never to be seen again.
> >
> > So - all you black cats out there - just go ahead
> > and try something. Make my day. Tuck & roll.
> >
> > Happy Halloween ;-)
> >
> > Side
> > (Happy owner of '92 and '96 Golden Retrievers)
> Sidewinder,
> Side,
> My 5 year old Bengal cat read your post and is not very happy. It does
> not pay to piss off a Bengal- especially one who is only 4 generations
> removed from her Southeast Asian Leopard Cat ancestors.
>
> She wants me to contact my daughter's 3 15 pound cats so they can all
> come to watch your car get teched for the first time next season.
>
> Leadbelly
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