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I was helping a friend vacuum one day.  I was using this friend's brand new Dyson DC17 Animal Cyclone Upright Vacuum Cleaner that this friend had bought.  I have to say this vacuum has some real power to it.  I accidentally ran the vacuum over the wires to the TV.  I guess you can only guess what happened from that point.  Before I had a chance to shut off the vacuum, the wires were pulled way into the vacuum and wrapped around the insides.  It suddenly got quiet in the house.  Sort of the way it sounds right after someone drops an expensive glass on the floor.  A second later I heard a voice say, "You have to be careful around the cords".  I think it was a little too late for this.  Now this friends was standing in front of me looking at my mess with a half grin.  I spent the next twenty minutes untangling the cords from inside the vacuum.

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This would be the end of this story, but it has an interesting ending.  I was at this friend's house again a few weeks later.  This friend was vacuuming in the other room and suddenly I heard the vacuum come to a screeching stop.  Then a second later I heard a thud sound on the wall.  I poked my head around the corner.  I saw a broken phone cord and a small hole in the wall.  The friend had accidentally run over the phone cord and the vacuum ripped the cord out of the wall.  The power cord is what went flying through the air and put a small dent in the wall.  If I would of stepped into the room to find out what the noise was all about, I would of been hit in the forehead and knocked out on the spot.  I can read it in the newspaper now.  It would read, "Man dies from power cord that hit him in the head".

Although I felt sorry for the friend who just broke the phone cord, I felt the urge to say something.  With a half grin I said, "You have to be careful around those cords".