"Hello, thank you for calling the Los Angeles Fire Department, Inspection and Maintenance. How may I help you?...Yes, we do replace fire-hoses... what? You're kidding, right? Not another one! Okay... okay... all right! We'll take care of it. Thanks for calling."

"Who was that, Lieutenant?"

"That was that guy Thornton from the Phoenix Foundation, Chief. We got another replacement job to do."

"MacGyver again?"

"Yep. The man's a menace. I don't know how many fire-hoses we've had to replace that he's cut up!"

"Well, I'm sure that it was for a good cause, like all the other times..."