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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

payday payday!

Man trapped waist-deep in chocolate

KENOSHA, Wis. - It might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of bubbling chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning.

Donovan Garcia, an employee of a company that supplies chocolate ingredients, said he was pushing the chocolate down into the vat at Debelis Corp. because it was stuck. But it became loose and he slid into the hopper.

"It was in my hair, in my ears, my mouth, everywhere," said Garcia, who has worked at the company for two years. "I felt like I weighed 900 pounds. I couldn't move."

The chocolate was 110 degrees, hotter than a hot tub, said Capt. Greg Sinnen of the Kenosha Fire Department.

Co-workers, police and firefighters tried to free the man but couldn't get him loose until the chocolate was thinned out with cocoa butter.

"It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand," said police Capt. Randy Berner.
Garcia was treated for minor injuries at a nearby medical center and released.

mmmmm, chocloate quicksand, arghghhhhh ...

On that non-panda-related note: in the pudgy spirit of George Constanza's "Candy Line Up" here's a brand new game!! Trust me, it's harder than you think.

Pandodyssey (tm) Caveat: there's no scorekeeping function to facilitate bragging rights for this game. (Apparently gloating was not a high priority for the Science Museum of Minnesota, who bring us this terrific game aptly named "Name that Candybar").

I scored embarassingly low ... :(

1 Comments:

At 10:38 PM, Hugh Bris said...

I know not where to start...

"It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand..."

OR

Science Museum of Minnesota

I will point out first that both occurred in neighbor states.

The only thing good that has ever come out of Wisconsin that is edible is Cheese and I think they may do an apple. I don't recall ever haveing had an apple from Wisconsin so I can not in good faith endorse apples from Wisconsin. Their cheese however is good, very good in fact.

You will note that at no time was chocolate OR quicksand mentioned in the above.

As for Minnesota... Science Museum? Come on now, who are you trying to fool. Maybe if Garrison Keilor was teaching a class... No, not even then.

So, From Wisconsin and Minnesota We have Cheese, perhaps Apples and Garrison Keilor.

Oh, and Fargo. The movie of course not the city as it wasn't shot there, in Fargo.

No Science, chocolate or quicksand. Stick with the Cheese...

 

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