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Old 07-28-2008, 11:51 AM
keeplokd keeplokd is offline
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Lightbulb A lesson learned...

Hey gang! Great site. It took me several days of reading to catch up with all 107 pages of this thread alone.

The other day I spotted an aging section of railroad rail nearly 3-feet long sitting neglected among the weeds near a local line. I stopped, threw on my work gloves, picked it up and carried it back to the truck. On the way back I thought I might have gotten sliced with a sharp blade of grass or something in the calf. Driving my prize home, I noticed a sharp pain that was quickly building into nearly electric shock proportions on my calf. I stopped, looked, rubbed, scratched. Couldn't find anything, but started suspecting maybe something "zapped me" - ground bee or something.

To make a long story short, when I got home and went to unload my prize, it had rolled a little in the truck so I could see the golfball sized wasp nest attached to what was the underside of the rail.

I guess there was a price to be paid for my free ASO, eh?

Bill
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