Seeing the speaker on fire on the October 2011 cover made me remember an incident that occurred a few years ago now, which could have had dire consequences. It is worth telling for several reasons. I was working late in the home workshop shed and at around 11:00pm heard a rather loud noise disturbing the neighbourhood and I immediately wondered about the sanity of whoever was running a compressor or mower at that time of night. After about 10 seconds of this I realised that the noise was in fact coming from my house.
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