Look, It’s The Rocketeer!
By Wyatt Earp | February 6, 2010
Philadelphia is getting hit pretty hard with a major snowstorm today, and while the shoveling will suck, at least I have an entire day off to do it. I can’t say for sure if I will be able to make another snowboarding course for the boys out front, but I’m sure gonna try.
I can, however, tell you what I won’t be doing: I won’t make myself a freakin’ rocket sled!
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A 62-year-old sledder looking for a burst of power got it when the homemade rocket strapped to his back exploded, burning him over nearly 20 percent of his body. Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe said the man, whose identity hasn’t been released, was hospitalized in stable condition Monday.
The man was hosting a Sunday night sledding party when he filled an automobile muffler with gasoline and gunpowder, strapped it to his back and had it lit, seeking what McCabe called “a rocket-launch effect.”
The device blew up as the man headed downhill, causing second-degree burns to his face and right side of his body and possible eye damage.
Congratulations, sir, you just won a trip to JackassWorld!
Topics: Evil = Funny | 14 Comments »
February 6th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I’m not an explosives expert, but gunpowder + gasoline + flame = crispy fried dumbarse.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Darwin award nominee
February 6th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
The nitwit obviously should have used a lot more gunpowder!
February 6th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Famous last redneck words: Hey! Watch this!
February 6th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
I thought the famous last words of a redneck was “Hold my beer.”
February 6th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
What a idiot.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Wow, that’s just one county over from where I live. I wonder what he was sledding, we still don’t have any snow. Big storm missed us nyah nyah nyah.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:29 am
He’ll probably sue an oil company for the lack of a warning label on the gas pump (Warning : do not mix this product with gunpowder and light it.), win the lawsuit, become a mozillionaire, and construct a nuclear powered rocket sled.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:33 am
JT, He used a muffler as the casing for his rocket, so he can probably sue a car company as well.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:52 am
RT – Yeah, it seems like something Johnny Knoxville would do on Jackass.
Crusty – Can’t win it. He didn’t die.
Watsuchskie- No argument there.
Proof – Turned himself into human fireworks.
Kim – Good point.
Rick – He probably is not going to be attending any MENSA meetings.
Rodney – 26 inches on Saturday and we are supposed to get more on Wednesday. Hooray.
JT – Then he’ll be on fire and glow in the dark. Kewl.
Rodney – Great, GM will need yet another bailout.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:29 am
My condolences to his neighbors. His death may very well have ended a long and painful neighbor relationship.
Plus he is a fire/explosion bug. There’s nothing worse than coming home to find your house in ashes because the assclown next door decided to mix the wrong chemicals…
February 7th, 2010 at 9:29 am
clarify: I offered condolences to his neighbors because he survived.
JS
February 7th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Must not laugh…must not…
February 7th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
DARWIN ROCKS!