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December 16, 2009

THINGS THE NAVY SAFETY CENTER DOESN'T THINK IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA


12/16/2009


1 Comments:

Anonymous cabdriver said...

hey, it all depends on how far you need to roll...you've featured worse, in that series.

Related: here's a Tale Of The 3rd World an anthro prof of mine once told me:

He was living in the outback of Australia with the aborigines, many miles from civilization, or even a road of any kind. But some vehicles still managed to get around out there, like Jeeps and Land Rovers.

He said one day out of nowhere one of them appeared in the distance. The car had no hood, and along with the driver, there was a rider perched in front of the windshield, over top of the engine. A strange place for a person to be riding.

As the vehicle got closer and rolled up to a stop, the reason for the passenger's strange placement became clear: he was holding a jar of gasoline in one hand, wetting his hand in the liquid with the other- and then flicking his petrol-wetted fingers every couple of seconds into the open maw of a carburetor (which evidently had a bad fuel line.)

And in this manner, the car was traveling through the middle of nowhere in the Australian desert.

December 21, 2009 2:04 PM  

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