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[Rusty]

The Italian Firefighters.....

One dark night in the small town of Totowa, New Jersey, a fire started
inside the local sausage factory. In a blink the building was engulfed in
flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.

When the first volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the sausage
company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret
sausage recipes are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be
saved. I will donate $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out and
delivers them to me."

But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire departments
had to be called in because the situation became desperate.....

As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer to rescue
the secret recipes was now $100,000 to the fire department that could save
them.

Suddenly from up the road, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came
into sight. It was the fire engine of the nearby Paterson, New Jersey
Volunteer Fire Department composed mainly of Italian firefighters over the
age of 65.

To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by these
Italian firefighters, passed fire engines parked outside the plant, and
drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen
watched in amazement as the Italian old timers jumped off and began to fight
the fire with a performance that was as if they were fighting to save their
own lives. Within a short time, the Paterson old timers had extinguished the
fire and saved the secret recipes.

The grateful sausage company president joyfully announced that for such a
superhuman accomplishment he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked
over to personally thank each of the brave elderly Italian firefighters. A
TV news crew rushed in after capturing the event on film. The TV reporter
asked the Italian fire chief, "What are you going to do with all that
money?"

"Wella." said Chief Pasquale De Luccinellavanti, the 70-year-old fire chief,
"De fursta tinga we gonnna do isza fixa uppa de brakes on dat
truck!!".

[gamekeeper]

[SmokeEater2]

Good one!

[JReed]

[oldgerboy]

This story is very similar to one from the comedian Jerry Clower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYUrdMzbtUg

He died about 1998. I have two of his tapes left but just found out Amazon has CD's of him. Wikipedia calls him "the original blue colar comedian".

[Borregos]

[Ysabel Kid]