The following is taken from a Florida newspaper:


A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the house in the

kitchen.  The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle

slipped into gear.  The man, still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio

door and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.  The wife,

hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her husband laying on the floor, cut

and bleeding, the motorcycle laying next to him and the patio door shattered.  The wife ran

to the phone and summoned an ambulance.


Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of long steps

to the street to direct the paramedics to her husband.


After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital, the wife up-righted

the motorcycle and pushed it outside.  Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife

obtained some papers towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet.


The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home.  After arriving

home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle.  He

became despondent, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette.  After

finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated. 

The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming.  She

ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor.  His trousers had been

blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin.


The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance.  The same ambulance crew

was dispatched and the wife met them at the street.  The paramedics loaded the husband

on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street.  While they were going down the

stairs to the street, accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the

husband had burned himself.  She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard,

one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband out.  He fell down the remaining

steps and broke his arm.