Hopefully he'll forgive me for sharing this, but it's just too funny...
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Let's frame the story correctly... This is a Zamboni, the machine used to clear the ice at ice arenas...
The scraped ice collects in the Zamboni, and then is deposited into the ice pit...
Hard to see, but that pit can be around 4 to 8 feet deep...
The stage is now set...
I get a call from Ian on Sunday. He's on the job at Mt. View ice arena. I hear "Hey Dad, guess what I did?" Being the typical father, I start thinking about the car being wrecked. Not quite that bad. He had just done an ice cut and the load was full. To get the tip, he was supposed to rev the engine, but the Zam wasn't in neutral. Oops!
I wish I could show you a picture of a Zam nose first into the ice pit, but I wasn't there. Fortunately, Ian's fine, he's still employed, the Zam is OK, and it only cost $80 to get a tow truck to remove it from the pit. He's not the first to do it, and he won't be the last, but he's going to be the butt of quite a few jokes around the arena for the next month or so.
This is the same Ian that shattered a pane of plexiglass with a slapshot some time back (same arena before he was employed there). As his friend said... "These things happen... but not usually all to the same person!"
Let's frame the story correctly... This is a Zamboni, the machine used to clear the ice at ice arenas...
The scraped ice collects in the Zamboni, and then is deposited into the ice pit...
Hard to see, but that pit can be around 4 to 8 feet deep...
The stage is now set...
I get a call from Ian on Sunday. He's on the job at Mt. View ice arena. I hear "Hey Dad, guess what I did?" Being the typical father, I start thinking about the car being wrecked. Not quite that bad. He had just done an ice cut and the load was full. To get the tip, he was supposed to rev the engine, but the Zam wasn't in neutral. Oops!
I wish I could show you a picture of a Zam nose first into the ice pit, but I wasn't there. Fortunately, Ian's fine, he's still employed, the Zam is OK, and it only cost $80 to get a tow truck to remove it from the pit. He's not the first to do it, and he won't be the last, but he's going to be the butt of quite a few jokes around the arena for the next month or so.
This is the same Ian that shattered a pane of plexiglass with a slapshot some time back (same arena before he was employed there). As his friend said... "These things happen... but not usually all to the same person!"
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