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 02-03-2010, 01:37 AM | #1 | Game on... Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Sewell, NJ Posts: 3,513 |  Darwin Awards Honorable Mention
PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Authorities in Michigan said a man was hospitalized with second-degree burns when his homemade sledding rocket pack exploded.
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said the 62-year-old Independence Township man constructed a backpack from a motorcycle muffler filled with gasoline and gunpowder and put on a motorcycle helmet before sledding down his back yard hill with the fuse lit, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
"At some point during the ride, the device exploded," Undersheriff Mike McCabe told The Detroit News. "Apparently, he has this sledding party every year, and he always does outrageous things at it, but he's never blown himself up before." McCabe said the man suffered burns to 18 percent of his body, including second-degree burns to his right side and his face. __________________
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| 02-03-2010, 01:56 AM | #2 | Sic Semper Tyrannis Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: , The Mother Lode Posts: 18,437 |
We definitely know that he is not a rocket scientist.  __________________
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| 02-03-2010, 02:21 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Uniontown, PA Posts: 3,711 |
Maybe not the best laid plans...but at least he wore his helmet.
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| 02-03-2010, 12:20 PM | #4 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
How much you wanna bet that helmet was the evel knievel replica from 1975? __________________
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| 02-04-2010, 12:38 AM | #5 | Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 8 |
you'd think a 62 year old man would have more sense that being said if that had worked it would have been awesome!  | |
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| 02-04-2010, 12:52 AM | #6 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 19,161 |
He's probably a laid-off Chrysler door hinge engineer that worked on the Jeep line! Not a clue what to do! __________________ .
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| 02-04-2010, 01:07 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky Posts: 390 |
I was more envisioning a bicycle helmet... __________________
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| 02-04-2010, 08:15 AM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sydney, Aust Posts: 2,033 |
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constructed a backpack from a motorcycle muffler filled with gasoline and gunpowder and put on a motorcycle helmet before sledding down his back yard hill with the fuse lit
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Awesome!
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| 02-04-2010, 10:40 AM | #9 | mmmmm...... Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maiden, NC Posts: 9,583 |
This just reminded me of when I was a motorcycle mechanic. Another guy was working on a bike and it backfired, blew the muffler completely off the bike and shot it across the shop! I was crying from laughing so hard.vv __________________
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| 02-04-2010, 11:04 AM | #10 | Supporting Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 6,267 |
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you'd think a 62 year old man would have more sense that being said if that had worked it would have been awesome! |
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