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Date:         Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         tfab@netcom.com (thom fitzpatrick)
Subject:      Re:  Fw: waaay stupid tricks (fwd)

Another X-Posting from PorschePhiles

Bill_Histed.ASM@notes.compuserve.com coughed up: > From porschephiles-request@tta.com Mon Jun 26 19:06:49 1995 > Date: 26 Jun 95 21:39:06 EDT > From: <Bill_Histed.ASM@notes.compuserve.com> > To: <porschephiles@tta.com> > Cc: <ASM#l#u#r#LN1#l#a#r#ASM@notes.compuserve.com> > Subject: Re: Fw: waaay stupid tricks > Message-ID: <950627013906_702420.204300_BHD37-55@CompuServe.COM> > > _____ Reply Separator _____ > Author: INTERNET:aek @ netcom.com@CISHUB > Received: 05/22/95 08:34:00 PM > Subject: Fw: waaay stupid tricks > > I just got this from a friend ... enjoy! > > > > > >Stupid Human Trick ... > > > >OUCH! don't try this one at home, now, kiddies! > > > >"Darwin award" Nominee: You all know about the Darwin awards -- it's > >an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest > >service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. > >Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke (tm) > >machine, which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip > >a free soda out of it. > > > >And the nominee is: > > > >The Arizona (U.S.) Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal > >imbedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road, at the apex > >of a curve. > > > >The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a > >car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. The boys in > >the lab finally figured out what it was, and what had happened. > > > >It seems that a guy had somehow got hold of a JATO unit, (Jet Assisted > >Take Off, actually a solid-fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy > >military transport planes an extra `push' for taking off from short > >airfields. He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert, and > >found a long, straight stretch of road. Then he attached the JATO > >unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed, and fired off the > >JATO!! Best as they could determine, he was doing somewhere between > >250 and 300 mph (350-420kph) when he came to that curve.... The > >brakes were completely burned away, apparently from trying to slow the > >car. > > > >(NOTE: Solid-fuel rockets don't have an 'off'... once started, they > >burn at full thrust 'till the fuel is all gone.) > > > > > > > ___________________________________________ > | Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D. aek@netcom.com | > |___________________________________________| > | "Freedom of the press is not an end in | > | itself but a means to the end of a free | > | society." Felix Frankfurter | > |___________________________________________| > >

Thom -- > "Criminal Lawyer" is a redundancy. Thom Fitzpatrick & Amy Burgess tfab@netcom.com '56 VW Sunroof Kombi '72 Porsche 911T Targa '78 BMW 530i Desperately seeking '51-'55 Barndoor Deluxe Project


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