[ROOFCUTTER]

The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded
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 lab finally figured out what it

was and what had happened. It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a
JATO unit (Jet Assisted Take Off - actually a olid 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 and straight stretch of road.

Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and
fired off the JATO! The facts as best as could be determined are that the
operator of the 1967 Impala hit the JATO ignition at a distance of
approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site. This was established by the
prominent scorched and melted asphalt at that location. The JATO, if
operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within 5 seconds,
causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 mph and continuing
at full power for an additional 20-25 seconds. The driver, and
soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually
reserved for dog fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, causing him to
become
insignificant for the remainder of the event. However, the automobile
remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles (15-20 seconds) before
the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tires and
leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface, then becoming airborne for
an
additional 1.4 miles and impacting the cliff face at a height of 125 feet
leaving a blackened crater 3 feet deep in the rock. Most of the driver's
remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and
hair were extracted from the crater and fingernail and bone shards were
removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering
wheel.

Epilogue: It has been calculated that this moron nearly reached Mach I,
attaining a ground speed of approximately 420 mph.

Do you believe this??? haha

[Minor Threat]

I beleive this idiot was the winner of a Darwin Award. It's given out to the people who died dumb deaths thereby no longer contibuting to the stupidness of the human race through themselves or more offspring. Better to have them outta the gene pool I guess. Check out http://www.darwinawards.com some of em are great.

[CyC0Dad]

Haha , you need to check out the Darwin awards site. This was a story, well done and almost believable but falls in tha catagory of Urban legend. I've been hearing this one on and off over the last 7 years, But you might find some of the Darwin Award winners even stranger than this story.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Check out this link specifically to see that it is an Urban Legend that fooled the Darwin Award Judges in 1995.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

[Tommy.Chong]

Haulin Ass.That guy had a death wish signed by satan personally.Wtf was he thinkin.......Is it safe to say he was Fast an Furious an when it come time to be Gone in 60 seconds he reached the Vanishing Point.