The Darwin Awards

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 May 31 15:58:00 1995

 Bulletin To: A whack'o'people

 From:        Heather (H.)  Mullen               (BNR)      Dept 7X44   SKY

 Subject:     fw:Good humor for the weekend

BAH HA HA!

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May 31 14:38 1995
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Subject:     Good humor for the weekend
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     Greetings,
     
     Just received this via email and thought you might enjoy.  Now, I just 
     wonder if the item used below was made by ACME...
     
     Rich

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"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 an
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.
     
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    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.