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- On the morning of December 30, 2007 in Bordeaux France, Dr. Canon Wilcox’s wife Lenore, was electrocuted in her new Jacuzzi, in her (still being remodeled) bathroom.
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- Lenore placed that morning’s half-empty, third glass of wine on the edge of the tub and got in. She was ready for jets of water, and bubbles, she flipped on the switch to start the pump. Nothing happened.
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- Her electrician Paul Toussaint, should have been at her house, and on the job, he wasn’t. He had, had a flat tire. While changing it he discovered the spare was flat too.
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- Lenore got out of the tub, she was wet and angry. She opened a small access door near the base of the tub and looked in. She hoped to find a RESET button, to push. There was a button, she pushed it. She got in the tub and flipped on the switch to start the pump. Nothing happened.
- She got out of the tub and pulled up on the handle to drain the water. Nothing happened.
- She walked across the bathroom, opened the door to the shower, reached in and turned the handle. The water flowed, she looked at the drain, it wasn’t blocked, she didn’t understand why it drained but not the tub. She stepped into the glass enclosed shower.
- Eleven minutes later she got out of the shower, toweled off, applied a body moisturizer, picked up her hair dryer and sat on the edge of the tub.
- She took another sip of wine and looked at the shower drain then at the tub’s drain handle. She yanked up and down on the handle a few times. Nothing happened.
- She began drying her hair. She bumped her half-empty glass of wine into the tub’s undrained water. She reached in to retrieve it. She stuck her leg out, to maintain her balance on the tub’s wet edge. Something happened.
- Drunk and off balance, she slipped and fell into the tub, while holding her hair dryer.
- It was 8:02 AM in Bordeaux. Eight time zones to the west it was 12:02 AM in Sanonte.
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- As Lenore was being electrocuted in her Jacuzzi, in Bordeaux, Pete was involved in his own electrical happening, but it involved much less amperage. He stood behind the bar of Cuck’s Bar and Grill, and picked at a piece of Jalapeno pepper inside the bar’s TV remote control.
- He hooked it then slowly pulled it out. He snapped the case back together and pressed the channel-select button, it worked. He was positively euphoric! Man vs. machine, and man had won! He reached for the phone to call the bar’s owner, but then looked at the clock. In was two minutes past midnight in Sanonte,
- Pete thought the bar’s owner would be asleep, he hung up the phone.
- The bar’s owner wasn’t asleep but fully awake.
- Dr. Rasher, was in his Jacuzzi, drinking a glass of wine, and mulling over his dilemma. He sat his half-empty glass of wine on the edge of the tub and reached up to adjusted the mixture of air bubbles and water flow. When he thought they were about perfect, he reached for his glass of wine. He didn’t have his glasses on, he misjudged the glass’s position and bumped it with his thumb, it fell into the water, and hit him on the knee. Other than that, nothing happened. He continued to ponder his dilemma.
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- That's the latest from Sanonte, or Sanity
- G, December 31, 2007