...of way back when...
...SORRY MOM...
..You might have to include my mother in the running for such an award, and 'patches" would be the first to vote for her, rest his soul...
...back in the days before "advantage", or flea collers, my mother decieded that she was gonna "vaccum the fleas" off the dog(cocker spaniel), and she had one of those "electrolux's" that pulled around on the floor with skids similar to "choppers", and things were going fine until...............,.............we heard an ungodly yelp, and a little white, and brown dog goes running by........., yep, that whoulp we heard was one of two that he originaly came equipted with being injested temporarly into one small tube with a great force drawing against the improper object inserted......
...dog ran, and hid when ever the vaccum was turned on after that.....................gee wonder why................