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Here's something to think about the next time you're sure the world is conspiring against you, or you're just having a bad day:
Fire authorities in California found a human corpse in a burned out section of forest while assesing fire damage after a recent forest fire. The deceased male was outfitted in a full wetsuit, complete with dive tank, flippers and a mask. Confused, they conducted an autopsy, which revealed the man had died not from burning or smoke inhalation, but rather from massive internal injuries. Still puzzled, investigators set out to figure out how a fully equipped diver ended up dead in the middle of a forest fire. Dental records provided a positive identification of the man, which led to the discovery that he had been on a diving trip off the coast, several miles away from the fire.
It was later revealed that firefighters, hoping to control the blaze as quickly as possible, had called in a small fleet of helicoptors with large drop buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown over the forest fire and emptied.
This guy never had a chance. One minute he was making like flipper in the Pacific, and the next he was treading water 1000 feet in the air.
He was responsible for extinguishing roughly five feet, ten inches of the fire.
Some days you should just stay in bed.