KNO3 sent us THIS (Click here to see it) cool thing about skateboards, rockets and , y’know, police. It’s in Queensland, Australia- a place known to be fun and with the reputation for having slightly insane residents.
So the guy used commercially available, legal rocket engines- like the ones you get for model rockets in your local hobby shop. Hmmm. And he makes boilers for a living. Hmm. I see this escalating one day into something more entertaining.
Man, I’d love to live in Australia.
Kewl!
I used to live in a very hilly US city (not on the coasts) and near where I lived were two very steep hills with 2 lanes plus turn lane and at the middle a stoplight and cross street. One day a fellow on ten speed who had learned how to time the light, was stopped for heading through that intersection (on green) at 85mph on a 10 speed in a 45mph zone… he went to court and successfully fought the points on his driver’s license as he was NOT in a motor vehicle but on a bicycle; but still had to pay the fine for 40mph over the posted limit.
This made me think of that. More power to him, and the power of ingenuity and duct tape for strapping model rocket engines on and getting aboard!
“Alcohol was involved…”
That phrase could be used more often, if truth be told. Have you seen that video of the guy who staggered in front of a train? They saved him, but he said he was having a bad reaction to some medication. Yeah. Okay. They guy who ran my mother off the road, flipping her car upside down by basically shoving it up a hill under an overpass told the police he had taken some NyQuil before driving. Riiiight. That’s not ‘drinking’. That’s not ‘alcohol’.
About 1969-1970 my father discovered by accident the ‘bedtime mickey’. Two Excedrin PM and a dose of the green Nyquil and try to stay awake for 20 min then go to bed. Lights out. You had one of those miserable achy (on the rack type) colds that were total agony; this was a way to go to bed and get some REST.
I heard about that combo again from a veteran of Desert Storm; he said the R&R barracks at the back of the line base was so bad (noisy), the only way you could get some sleep was 2-3 PM’s and a slug of Nyquil.
Most antihistamines unless you take them fairly regularly, should be under controlled substance rules… I’ve willingly removed myself from circulation or operating anything more daunting than the TV remote when forced to take the antisnots…. my condolences, Greg. Hope your mom was okay, and they kicked that other driver’s keyster….
She’s fine now. You know how aging isn’t the slow progression/slowing down everyone seems to think it is, but comes in big wallops? The car wreck was a big wallop for her, I think. She doesn’t drive here (80 miles) with the cavalier attitude she used to have.