Want to see a MONSTER TANK on MYTH BUSTERS?
This is a myth that was heard by one of our members while in a pet store in Milwaukee. The incident supposedly occurred in the San Antonio area.
I once heard that a guy went to a public zoo that was remodeling and bought a 1000 gallon turtle tank. He then loaded it in the elevator and placed it in his 4th floor apartment. He hooked a piece of tubing up to his sink and began to fill it. As he gazed at the magnitude of the new home for his Betta fish he noticed there was a darn penny sitting right at the bottom of the otherwise clean and empty tank. Being a man who suffered from OCD he could not let it be. He tried to fish it out with a piece of wire but soon realized that there was no way, short of climbing in a picking it up himself, that he could ever get it out. So he stripped down to nothing grabbed a step ladder and climbed in. By this time the tank was almost full. Right as he reached down to grab the penny the floor boards gave way and the tank plummeted through the ceiling of the 3rd floor. Then right through the 2rd and the first. When he and the tank reached the basements concrete floor the tank instantly shattered into thousands of pieces that were then washed away by the rushing water into the sump of the building. The apartment complex was brand new and he was the first to move in so no one witnessed the event. When someone did eventually report the incident; all the police found was a naked man lying on the concrete underneath 4 floors of destruction clutching a penny.
lets get some discussion going so we can summit to MYTH BUSTERS !!
This is a myth that was heard by one of our members while in a pet store in Milwaukee. The incident supposedly occurred in the San Antonio area.
I once heard that a guy went to a public zoo that was remodeling and bought a 1000 gallon turtle tank. He then loaded it in the elevator and placed it in his 4th floor apartment. He hooked a piece of tubing up to his sink and began to fill it. As he gazed at the magnitude of the new home for his Betta fish he noticed there was a darn penny sitting right at the bottom of the otherwise clean and empty tank. Being a man who suffered from OCD he could not let it be. He tried to fish it out with a piece of wire but soon realized that there was no way, short of climbing in a picking it up himself, that he could ever get it out. So he stripped down to nothing grabbed a step ladder and climbed in. By this time the tank was almost full. Right as he reached down to grab the penny the floor boards gave way and the tank plummeted through the ceiling of the 3rd floor. Then right through the 2rd and the first. When he and the tank reached the basements concrete floor the tank instantly shattered into thousands of pieces that were then washed away by the rushing water into the sump of the building. The apartment complex was brand new and he was the first to move in so no one witnessed the event. When someone did eventually report the incident; all the police found was a naked man lying on the concrete underneath 4 floors of destruction clutching a penny.
lets get some discussion going so we can summit to MYTH BUSTERS !!
