In a message dated 10/14/2004 4:24:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
 writes:

Also  yesterday, horror of horrors, I drove away from my house with my
year-old  Swarovski Scope in its case on top of my minivan.  It slid off
the top  of the car and onto Rt. 28.  When I looked in the rearview
mirror and  realized what I had done, I almost went in to shock!  I
stopped the  car and ran back to pick up the case.  Before I got there, a
PEPCO  truck pulled up next to the case and man jumped out and picked it
up.   As I got nearer, he looked at me and asked if the case was mine.   I
said "yea, it just slid off the top of my car" then he had the nerve  to
say "prove it -- tell me whats inside?"  Now I'm thinking, am I  going to
have to "duke" it out with the PEPCO guy for my scope thats  probably
smashed into a thousand pieces?  Fortunately, I said it was a  spotting
scope before he opened the case and he gave it back to me  and
miraculously, both the scope and the eye pieces survived the impact  and
optically nothing seems wrong.  What a  day!



Ooooh, Andy, my heart just skipped a beat reading your post. Glad  everything
worked out for you. Take care of that scope, it's a killer good  one!

Rick Sussman