Eh. After posting the above I thought 'Hmmm. That chap sounds just daft enough to try that. Best tell him I was just kidding before he does himself a mischief. Funny lot, the Americans - just look at that David Blaine.'

"We shot it strait through a metal matchbox car!"

Back in highschool, a friend of mine wanted to see exactly how powerful his b.b. gun was. He didn't think there was any way it could shoot through a cardboard box from down the hall. So what he did was have his brother stand on the other end of the hallway, holding a brand-new copy of DARK FORCES for the PC, and proceeded to pump the gun about 12-15 times. What he did forget to do, however, was take the DARK FORCES CD out of the box. The b.b. went through the box, through the CD case, shattered the CD, went through the back of the box, hit a mirror behind the brother, shattered the mirror, went through the back of the mirror, and embedded itself into a wall.

I like this thread. Brings back memories of "I saw this in a cartoon once and I think I can do it"

Brings back another memory of an Arizona meat head who stole a JATO bottle from a nearby airstation and attached it to the roof of his camaro. The lad went missing for some time and an Arizona State officer was driving down the highway and noticed something on a hill in the desert that should not have been there. Upon investigation he found that it was the camaro embedded into the hill the tires and wheels were burnt off and there were no discernable differences between the vehicle and the lad driving it. Tho he is no longer with us, he left us with something to ponder. If you are stupid enough to attach a rocket to your vehicle you deserve to die as you are just a burden to the rest of us. But, I bet it was a helluva ride.

I left my pellet gun at my sis-in-law's house while I was moving. My nephew thought he would set up a target range in the house. It never occured to him that the sliding glass door might catch a stray pellet. it did.

I always loved this story as I was laughing my ass off the first time I heard it. I do believe it to be an urban legend however. does anyone have any proof that this actually happened? news clipings, etc?? or ist it jut another good piece of internet fiction

I actually heard it back in the '80s. I was attached to an NAS/MCAS at the time. It is probably pure fiction by us wingers for amusement. Unfortunately I can actually picture someone doing it.

so can I! that's why I laughed so damned hard first time I heard it. imagining the poor fool literally standing on the brake pedal to please make it stop! he was probably gritting so damned hard he had no teeth left for identification after they dug him out of the hillside!

I think we all know if I had access to a JATO unit....

I think they tested that story on 'Mythbusters' ? on the Discovery Channel. They used an impala though.

i think i read some of these stories thru "darwin awards".

Yeah? Wanna strap those to that stripped chasse you have? Take it to Bonneville, I'll drive it!

no way! who'd they get to drive that thing?? r/c just wouldn't be the same. but there you can see how the legends get started because when I first heard the story years ago, the car was also an Impala

I was *cough* young *cough* when I did that stuff, seriously.

the jato car was on here earlier and the article with a guy disproving it happened.

to be honest, I wouldn't mind going out that way. what a rush.

Hell yes!

Under the topic of do not try this at home.

I was once young and stupid and I had a Piciloe Pete (the fire work that wistles really loud without showers of sparks). After lighting the fuse it didnt go off. So I decided to crack it open and see what would happen if I dumped out the powder and lit it. FLASH and a large fire ball scares the crap out of me. I jump back about 50 feet and a freind comes over to see if I am ok. He takes one look at me and starts laughing his a$$ off. Turms out the I singed off my eye lashes, eyebrows, and my hair looked like I just got a Don King doo. Boy was Mom pissed! It took several weeks the get out the smell of burnt hair and for everything to grow back. Yes most of my childhood trauma's were self inflicted.

Now I an just old, but still stupid.

I heard that if you mix Clorox and brake fluid it will smoke, but the old lady wont let me try it.

What if we had a ramp? Like they use for Harriers? And we could rivet some wings on!!! And we could fire the RATO's consecutively. That's a 20 second burn. I got some road flares for re entry.

LMAO! Perhaps we should scrub the flight.

tabbouleh has better ballistics ;)

I am interested in the flying falafle cart. They are going to have an event sponsored by Red Bull called the Flugtag. People are going to build home made flying machines out of any thing you can imagine. They are going to ride them off a barge (I think like 30 feet above the watter) into the ocean. I gotta go see this and meet some of my fellow dumbass's. Hehehe, I think the falafle cart could be the winner.

Looove the Flugtag!