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Title: Michigan Boys-- Anyone here?? Post by: bubba on February 04, 2010, 07:17:39 am Anyone here get the Darwin award for this stunt?
"Man hurt after homemade rocket explodes during party stunt" A 62-year-old Michigan man was severely burned when a homemade rocket strapped on his back exploded while he slid down a snowy hill on a sled, authorities said this week. The rocket stunt was the grand finale on Saturday during the man's annual sledding party at his Oakland County, Michigan, home, the sheriff's department said. "He is known for doing 'crazy things' at his parties," an Oakland County sheriff's department statement said. "On this date, after consuming an unknown quantity of alcohol, he constructed a device out of a motorcycle muffler and pipe." Inside the makeshift rocket, the victim placed gunpowder, heads from matches and gasoline. He donned a helmet and took a sled to the top of a snowy embankment. "He asked another person to light a wick and then began to sled down a hill. At some point during the ride downhill, the device exploded. The results of the explosion were second-degree burns to the victim's face," the sheriff's department statement said. No one else was injured during the incident. The man, whose identity is not yet known, was hospitalized with significant damage to one of his eyes and could face criminal charges, authorities said. Where is the video when you need it.. :biggrin: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/04/michigan.rocket.man/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn Title: Re: Michigan Boys-- Anyone here?? Post by: Kilroy on February 04, 2010, 07:47:22 am NONE of our products were used in this stunt.
ACME ROCKET has been safely providing personal rocket propulsion devices for 50 years. Our Rockets have been successfully used to hunt Road Runners and other fast game. Sincerely, Wile E. Coyote President * Can't take credit for this, I found it in the comments section of the online version of the local paper. Another person suggested he should sue the motorcycle company for not placing a warning on the muffler that filling it with gasoline, strapping it to your butt and lighting it will cause it to explode Title: Re: Michigan Boys-- Anyone here?? Post by: mznb1u on February 05, 2010, 12:16:24 am It is amazing that this "braintrust" made it to 62 years of age! The best thing about this story is that all of his friends stood there and watched him do it. Not one of them said, "Uhhhh, Bill that might not be such a good idea!!!" And one of them even lit the wick!!!
Best quote of the story "On this date, after consuming an unknown quantity of alcohol . . ." I have a pretty good idea of how much alcohol must have been consumed. :happydrinkers: Guys, alcohol and explosives are never a good mixture! :tounge: :drinking: Tim :drinking: |