One dark night outside Rush City, Minnesota , a fire
started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye
it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the
fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the
chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said,
"All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the
plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire
department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation
became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted
out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who
could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck
came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township
volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the
age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire
engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were
parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of
the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian
old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it
back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen
before.
Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the
fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical
company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he
was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally
thank each of the brave fire fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on
film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all
that money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first
thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!"
I NEVER knew Spec was Norwegian!
