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To: AugustWest who wrote (21967)	8/2/2000 9:12:49 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49843

Not unless a certain canadian stock plays dead.

To: AugustWest who wrote (21967)	8/2/2000 11:23:42 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49843

Space ain't the Place Wednesday August 2 9:58 AM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - The popular Space Mountain roller coaster ride at Disneyland was closed after a malfunction caused minor injuries to nine people. The accident happened about 10:55 p.m. Monday when a wheel support arm came loose and brought a 12-person car to a sudden halt. Nine people were treated at hospitals for bruises, including a woman in the first seat of the car whose feet were bruised when the floor buckled underneath her, officials said. The safety system on the ride, which reaches a maximum speed of about 30 mph as it winds its way through a half-mile course, stopped other cars. The lights in darkened Space Mountain were turned on and everyone was evacuated. The accident on the ride, which was built in 1977, was the first involving a wheel support arm, park officials said. Three lawsuits have been filed alleging injuries suffered on the ride.

To: AugustWest who wrote (21967)	8/2/2000 11:47:16 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49843

Have you seen Jake? Do you think this is a coincidence? OSLO (Reuters) - An international team of monster hunters unveiled a giant trap Wednesday for catching a fabled serpent, reputed to be a cousin of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, in a lake in south Norway. "This is the first serpent trap of its kind in the world," Jan Sundberg, a Swede leading a team of 12 experts, told Reuters. The team comprises seven Swedes, three Norwegians, a Canadian and a Belgian. The 18-foot-long tube-shaped trap, comprising a metal frame with nylon netting, will be lowered into Seljord lake in south Norway. It will contain live whitefish for bait to catch an elusive beast known to locals as "Selma." "The trap is adapted from a fish trap for eels. If anything up to about six meters long swims in one end, the opening closes and it won't be able to get out," said Sundberg, a veteran of several inconclusive high-tech scans of the murky lake. Over the next two weeks, the team will dangle the cage in the lake, about 110 miles (170 km) southwest of Oslo, at depths of between 30 and 100 meters near where sightings of the monster have been reported. Two biologists at the University of Oslo were on standby to fly down by helicopter and take tests if the trap worked. "We'll take a DNA sample, document the serpent and then release it into the lake," he said. "We will be very careful not to hurt it." Experts on land would also try to track any unexplained movements underwater with hydraphones and sonars to help experts on a floating platform move the trap quickly to a promising spot. Sundberg said the team recorded mysterious whale-like noises during a visit in 1999. "We'd be disappointed if we don't get some kind of result this time...the only evidence scientists would accept is a dead or a live serpent," he said. The beast was first spotted around 1750, and most accounts agree it looks like a serpent with the head of an elk or a horse. Seljord is a town of about 1,500 people at the head of the picturesque lake, about 15 km (nine miles) long. In recent years, Seljord has tried to imitate Loch Ness in attracting tourists. In 1986, the local council changed Seljord's coat of arms to portray a sea serpent.

To: AugustWest who wrote (21967)	8/2/2000 11:47:26 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49843

Have you seen Jake? Do you think this is a coincidence? OSLO (Reuters) - An international team of monster hunters unveiled a giant trap Wednesday for catching a fabled serpent, reputed to be a cousin of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, in a lake in south Norway. "This is the first serpent trap of its kind in the world," Jan Sundberg, a Swede leading a team of 12 experts, told Reuters. The team comprises seven Swedes, three Norwegians, a Canadian and a Belgian. The 18-foot-long tube-shaped trap, comprising a metal frame with nylon netting, will be lowered into Seljord lake in south Norway. It will contain live whitefish for bait to catch an elusive beast known to locals as "Selma." "The trap is adapted from a fish trap for eels. If anything up to about six meters long swims in one end, the opening closes and it won't be able to get out," said Sundberg, a veteran of several inconclusive high-tech scans of the murky lake. Over the next two weeks, the team will dangle the cage in the lake, about 110 miles (170 km) southwest of Oslo, at depths of between 30 and 100 meters near where sightings of the monster have been reported. Two biologists at the University of Oslo were on standby to fly down by helicopter and take tests if the trap worked. "We'll take a DNA sample, document the serpent and then release it into the lake," he said. "We will be very careful not to hurt it." Experts on land would also try to track any unexplained movements underwater with hydraphones and sonars to help experts on a floating platform move the trap quickly to a promising spot. Sundberg said the team recorded mysterious whale-like noises during a visit in 1999. "We'd be disappointed if we don't get some kind of result this time...the only evidence scientists would accept is a dead or a live serpent," he said. The beast was first spotted around 1750, and most accounts agree it looks like a serpent with the head of an elk or a horse. Seljord is a town of about 1,500 people at the head of the picturesque lake, about 15 km (nine miles) long. In recent years, Seljord has tried to imitate Loch Ness in attracting tourists. In 1986, the local council changed Seljord's coat of arms to portray a sea serpent.