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Anyhow, I just got done swapping out all the fluids in my bike, I was going to start it and let it warm so I could double check all the levels afterward. Anyway, the first dumb move was I was wearing tennis shoes that are old and like racing slicks on the bottom. Mistake #2, not cleaning up the oil/antifreeze I spilled on the floor. Mistake #3 I stepped in the spill before kicking my bike over. Anyhow, I gave the kick lever a swift kick from TDC, my oiled up tennis shoe slipped off the lever, and now I have a 8"gash on the front of my shin from the footpeg. OUCH!!! I though....why did I do that??  

Shoot is that all? I was in the James river in VA, doing a security patrol in a 27 foot boat when I seen a white ball floating down stream towards the ocean. I picked it out of the water and me and the Coxswain spent an hour kicking the so called ball around before I got bored and pulled out my Gerber multi tool and started cutting it open, after getting thru the plastic layer I hit a layer of black oderous packing, I then chiped thru it and hit a layer of clay that smelled like ameritto. Well long story short it turned out to be a bomb floating down stream that I disassembled. It nearly got me in trouble but I got to walk away and saying... Why did I do that?

   

 

yeah that sounds pretty freaky alright!! Good thing you didn't blow your arms off!

I thank the lord every time I think of that day!

   

 

geesh en2, why didn't it explode?  

It didnt explode becouse the lord loves me AND; I didnt create pressure, heat, open flame and or a small explosion to start the chemical-pressure chain reaction that wouldve blown my friend the patrol  boat and me clear of the water or into so many peaces it wouldve been a waste of time to retreive us.