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Workman blacks out two countries

Nury Vittachi
Jul 02, 2013
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electricity over asia

I ONCE PLUGGED IN an appliance and accidentally blacked out my whole school. I was an instant hero.

I later told the head teacher that jumping around yelling “woohoo” was how we expressed deep sorrow in my country, but he wasn’t buying it.

My achievement was eventually topped by a friend who dug a hole in his garden and short-circuited the street.

Yet both…

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