[MLB-WIRELESS] What's Cooking?

[Robert Tchia]

Turkey, anyone?? :)

Hey that happened to one of Telstra employee. Luckily he didn't die from
it. It was on the news a while ago

Cheers
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au [mailto:owner-
> melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Will Lanigan
> Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 12:02 AM
> To: melb wireless
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] What's Cooking?
> 
> WHAT'S COOKING?
> Edward Baker, 31, a night watchman at a telephone company's microwave
> relay
> station in Manitoba, Canada.
> Baker was found dead on Christmas morning of excessive microwave
exposure
> in
> the path of microwave beam emanating from the feed horn at the centre
of
> the
> relay station's telecommunications dish. Baker had been suspended for
an
> earlier safety violation, when he shut off a safety switch and entered
a
> restricted-access maintenance catwalk to stand in front of the
microwave
> dish. He told colleagues it was the only way he could keep warm
through
> Manitoba's freezing winter nights. For his Christmas shift, Baker
brought
> a
> 12-pack of beer and a plastic chair to work, and sat down directly in
> front
> of the strongest microwave beam. He had not been told about a planned
> tenfold boost in the beam's power to accommodate the anticipated
Christmas
> tele-communications rush. Day watchman, John Burns discovered Baker's
body
> after being greeted by the odor he mistook for Baker's Christmas
roast.
> The
> unfinished beers had exploded.
> 
> 
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