Dan wrote:
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From: "Charley"
Newsgroups:
rec.woodworking,alt.home.repair,misc.consumers,rec .crafts.metalworking,uk.d-i-y
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've
had,or seen so far ?


investigation of his home and property.

He had been working on the roof of his house (almost 2 blocks away
from where I found him) and he had tied the rope from his car up
over the front of the roof of his house to his waist to keep from
falling off his back roof
, but he hadn't bothered to take his wife's car keys away from
her...


Uh-huh

http://www.snopes.com/autos/mishaps/roofman.asp

Note that Snopes doesn't say it never happened. Fact is a car is a
very convenient portable anchor and force applicator, with the
disadvantage being that someone can at an inopportune moment de-anchor
it and drive off with whatever it was supporting still attached. I
don't see such an incident as being at all improbable and it's
probably occurred more than once.

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