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Friday, August 18, 2006

Choco Bath



From Yahoo News comes this story about a 21-year-old man who was trapped in a tank of chocolate for about two hours.

Apparently the man got into the tank at the Debelis Corp. to unplug it and became trapped waist-deep in the chocolate.

Huh?

I've got some problems with this story. First, why would he need to step into a tank of anything to unplug it. Wouldn't the plug be on the outside?

Second, is the Ewwww factor. I hope I don't get any chocolate from this vat!

And thirdly, this guy sounds like a real lightweight. I could eat my way out of that vat in less than 2 hours without any help ;-)

14 comments:

  1. ewwwwwwwwwww is right. I hope I don't get any of that chocolate!

    I loved the coffee cat...

    Have a wonderful day!
    *^_^
    (=':'=) hugs
    (")_ (")Š from da Raggedy one

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  2. What a moron.

    Heh. Remember how badly the REAL Wonka freaked out when that kid got in the chocolate?

    This sounds like a fantasy vacation: Swimming in chocolate!

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  3. I know. They make it sound like a bad thing.

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  4. Did someone say chocolate???...yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

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  5. Augustus Gloop, Augustus Gloop. That great big greedy, nincompoop...

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  6. I saw that story and posted about it, too... and it also made me think Wonka... but you found a much better graphic than I did. I'm sure that the entire vat had to go in the sewer because of contamination, so I don't think you need to worry about shreds of denim or bits of hair in your chocolate bar. I work in an industrial environment and we don't have one single vat, hopper or tank that has to be plugged from inside. It would be idiotic to build a vat that way. Something tells me that there's more to the story than we're hearing.

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  7. Yeah, right - the plug is always inside the vat.

    Yeah, right - you always unplug the vat in order to turn it off, because there's no on/off switch.

    Yeah, right - you turn off the vat when it's full of liquid chocolate.

    Something very sticky about this version of events.

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  8. I wouldn't want to drown in chocolate, but I could handle it at waist high. Ummm-Ummmm goooood!!

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  9. And fourth, how much does a large-than-person-sized vat of chocolate cost?

    -- david

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  10. I think there's more to this story too. It's just too weird.

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