On Monday, April 26, 2004 1:19 am, James Shope wrote:
> i never saw or heard about the jet powered bycycle, but i did hear about
> some idiot somewhere in arizona that strapped a JATO ( jet assisted
> take-off) bottle to the top of his old pontiac and fired it off. they
> estimated he was doing a couple hundred miles an hour when he hit the
> rocks. all they found of him was jello. cannot authenticate but sounds
> good. healeymanjim
Here's the real skinny.
<http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp>
Snopes.com is "the place" for tracking down this type of thing:
--
John Miller
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
from.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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