OFF: Re: Nominee for this year's Darwin Awards

[M Holmes]

Le Monsieur Damon writes:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Paul G Ward wrote:
> > The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal
> > embedded 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 lab
> > finally figured out what it was and what had happened.
> > [ ... ]
> > ... the automobile remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles
> > (15-20) seconds before the driver applied and completely melted the
> > brakes,  blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on the road
> > surface, then  becoming airborne for an additional 1.4 miles and
> > impacting the cliff face at a  height of 125 feet leaving a blackened
> > crater 3 feet deep in the rock.
>
> OK... how does a Chevy Impala become airborne?  The first paragraph
> implies that the truck was on the road below the crash site.  Now, unless
> a Chevy Impala has wings, it shouldn't be able to rise above the road, no
> matter how fast (up to escape velocity, at any rate).

Horses don't have wings either, but I suspect that if you attached a
JATO unit and lit it you;d have instant Pegasus.

> Damon Capehart

Mike "This ain't rocket science" Holmes