BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)

Subject: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Bert
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:40 PM

Man trapped waist-deep in chocolate


The Associated Press

KENOSHA, Wis. - It might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning.

The man, an employee of a Kenosha company that supplies chocolate ingredients, told police he got into the tank at Debelis Corp. to unplug it and became trapped waist-deep in the chocolate.

"It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand," said Police Capt. Randy Berner.

Co-workers, police and firefighters tried to free the man but couldn't get him loose until the chocolate was thinned out. Berner said the worker was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor


injuries.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:48 PM

I understand that it took so long to rescue him because every time they tried he dove under the chocolate and eluded them. When he was rescued, he weighed 78 pounds more than when he when in, too.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:50 PM

Just let it set and I'll come and eat him out!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:53 PM

He'd have been out sooner if he had yelled "help" instead of "Chocolate"

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:54 PM

Did you ever hear about the guy at the Campbell's Soup Company who drowned in a vat of chicken noodle soup? 'Strue. His last words, before he went down for the third time, were "Mm, mm, GOOD!"

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Helen
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 07:02 PM

Chocolate body-paint gone wild?

I wonder if he is so traumatised by the event that he'll never eat chocolate again. Nah, impossible!

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 07:07 PM

The article doesn't say what KIND of chocolate -- milk, dark, bittersweet.... This is a very important question!

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 08:04 PM

If only this could happen to me in a keg of beer....with my luck though it would be coors.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 08:22 PM

The Irishman who fell into the vat of Guinness took a week to drown - wouldn't have taken so long if hadn't kept getting out to pee...

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: JennyO
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 11:41 PM

Ha! Beat me to it, Robin. First thing I thought of.

There's another version of the same sort of thing in the letter from an Irish mother:

Your Uncle Patrick drowned last week in a vat of whiskey in the Dublin Brewery. Some of his workmates tried to save him but he fought them off bravely. They cremated him and it took three days to put out the fire.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Haruo
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 07:00 AM

You know you have really accomplished something when you can get the cops to say the beer you were stuck in was "like quicksand".

Haruo

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 07:15 AM

He was covered in Cocoa Channel.
G

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 08:04 AM

Number 5 ?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 11:35 AM

I can't past the possibility that human beings wade into the chocolate. ?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 11:40 AM

All these posts and no one has mentioned the Smothers Brothers?

"I yelled FIRE when I fell into the vat of chocolate"
("Cause no one would come if I yelled CHOCOLATE!!!")

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 11:44 AM

Tom (sings): I fell into a vat of chocolate.
I fell into a vat of chocolate.

Dick (sings): What'd you do when you fell into the chocolate?

Together: Lolly doo-dum, lolly doo-dum-day...

Tom (sings): I fell into a vat of chocolate.
I fell into a vat of chocolate...

Dick (interrupts): Tom, Tom! I just asked you, what did you do when you fell into the chocolate?

Tom: Well, you see, I fell into this vat of chocolate, and...um...

Dick: Wait a minute. How did you fall into a vat of chocolate, anyway? Where was this vat of chocolate?

Tom: It was on my way home from school. I would pass by this vat of chocolate.

Dick: But wasn't there some kind of railing or something, to keep people from falling in the chocolate?

Tom: Well, um, you see, I used to kind of walk on that railing...

Dick: And you fell in the chocolate.

Tom: Yeah.

Dick: Okay. So what did you do when you fell in the chocolate?

Tom (sings): I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate.
I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate.

Dick: (sings): Why'd you yell Fire when you fell into the chocolate?

Together: Lolly doo-dum, lolly doo-dum-day...

Tom (sings): I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate.
I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate...

Dick (interrupts): Tom! Tom! Why, if you fell in the chocolate, why did you yell Fire?

Tom : Well, it just kind of seemed like the thing to do...

Dick : Tom, listen to me. We're going to play the song one more time, and I want you to say why you yelled Fire when you fell into the chocolate! (plays guitar)

Tom (sings) : I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate...

Dick (sings) : Why'd you yell Fire when you fell into the chocolate!?

...

Tom : Because nobody would have saved me if I'd yelled "CHOCOLATE!"

Together: Lolly doo-dum, lolly doo-dum-day...

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 06:04 PM

I would have.... I'd've been there as fast as my fat arsed little legs could carry me!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 06:19 PM

I didn't know about a chocolate factory in Kenosha, which is maybe 35 miles south of Milwaukee and ten miles south of my home in Racine. I do remember a chocolate factory in downtown Milwaukee, though - it smelled awful for half a mile around, and friends who worked there told me they developed a dislike for chocolate soon after they started working at the plant.
-Joe-

Subject: BS: News from Kenosha, Wis.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 02:54 PM

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — It might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning.
Capt. Randy Berner said the worker said he got into the tank at the Debelis Corp. to unplug it and became trapped waist deep in the chocolate.

Subject: RE: BS: News from Kenosha, Wis.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 02:54 PM

sorry...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-08-18-chocolate-tank_x.htm

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 03:29 PM

thanks, clones!

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Cheers, bb. I also amended the thread title so others who aren't aware of Liz's proclivities might find it. - --JoeClone

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 03:43 PM

Liz is no amateurclivity that's for certain! Not when it comes to chocolate!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 04:10 PM

If it werennn... aHEM... if it weren't for the difficulty in coming up with rhymes, it would make a great parody: 'I fell into a bubbling vat of chocolate'. I can only get as far as:

I fell into a bubbling vat of chocolate
It went up my bum and it coated my [something] and it

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 04:11 PM

chocolate body casts?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: terrier
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 05:32 PM

I don't understand? Why would the plug be IN the vat of chocolate. It's not like I keep the PC plug in a tub of ice cream !!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Aug 06 - 07:43 PM

"I fell into a bubbling vat of chocolate. . . ."

To the tune of "Ring of Fire." I'm no songwriter, but I imagine someone here could do something with this.

Now, if something like that happened to me, I'd try to make the best of it until someone pulled me out. I'd just lick the hell out of my immediate environment.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: A thread for Squeaks (Vat of Chocolate)
From: Crane Driver
Date: 26 Aug 06 - 08:32 AM

I assume, terrier, that it's for the same reason that the plug is IN the bath of water. If the plug was on the outside, pressure would force it out. But I'd have thought that, for health, safety and hygiene reasons, there would be an easier way of draining the vat than sending a worker in to pull out the plug. Did he take his boots off first? Had he washed his feet? Did you chocaholics know that sweaty workmen had been wading through your chocolate before it was cast into bars and wrapped?

I see the man concerned was 21 years old. Was he a new apprentice, and was this some sort of ritual, like sending the new boy for a left-handed screwdriver or whatever? "Just wade into this vat of chocolate and pull the plug out, boy!" and the rest of the shift stand around laughing their socks off (or the rest of the sock laugh their shifts off, whichever you prefer)

Are workers in chocolate allowed to wear socks?

You're right, there has to be a song in this.

Andrew