Yes, this is highly amusing. I do hate to burst your bubble, but that never
really happened. Call the Arizona Highway Patrol if you're not sure.
Better yet, check out http://www.officialdarwinawards.com/uls/impala.html
That said, if you were to put a JATO on a vehicle, you would probably bring
the myth to life. In other words, don't try this yourself.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Mark Kuzia
> Sent: February 6, 1999 11:59 PM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Re: Attn: Jon / JATO /Drag racing 747's
>
>
> Before you do that Jon, read this, it would be a shame to waste a Dakota
> like that.
>
> Here’s the deal: the Arizona Highway Patrol came upon this pile of
> smoldering metal embedded in the side of a cliff running above a strip of
> highway at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an
> airplane crash, but it was actually the remains of a car. The type of car,
> however, was unidentifiable at the scene. The crackerjack police
> crime lab,
> after much pondering and computing of highly improbable and annoyingly
> complex physics formulas finally figured out what it was and the
> details of
> what happened.
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