Building the dam at Lost Creek Lake in So. Ore., I worked on a big dragline that got drowned. The operator got canned, socked the bucket into the pond bottom, knuckled the friction in, released the travel locks, stepped out of the machine with his Stanley thermos..and said, "She's all yours". It pulled itself into the pond. I heard later, the insurance company pushed for and got him jail time. Right or wrong, you gotta say he got points for style.
