That one IS an awknowledged Urban Legend in the Darwin Awards.Kitsune wrote:I question this. I have not actually seen it but there is a story of a person putting JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) thrusters on a car and some skeptics actually did virtually the same event with safeties like having the car remote controlled, at the description of what happened is nothing like there experiment. The car, for example, only reached about 200 mph on the thrusters.
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I know, I know. I just meant that the pain involved would be reciprocal then, ignoring the other punishments that would also occur.[/quote]
Good point, fair is fair after all.
But what realy pisses me off about dead beat pairents is the fact that they do not seem to give a rats ass about there kids and so without take the time to raise them right they say " I can't be bathored or I'm to busy with work and what not."
It's that type of fucking piss poor atadtude that alowes the scumbs like ones in Trinty bay to get away with there evil.
That's one flaws of capaitalishm work work and more work whiile the home lifes goes for a shit due to lake of time to raise the kids right, stree due to a fas paces life stayle and for to so called upper class they become so jaded that they see kids as more of a status symbol them a living human being and let there jaded atatude rub off on there kids as well as spoiling them rooten so that he come to see the less well off namely the avarge work joe who porvides them there money though there hard work as something less then human.
At lest that's how I see things
I know, I know. I just meant that the pain involved would be reciprocal then, ignoring the other punishments that would also occur.[/quote]
Good point, fair is fair after all.
But what realy pisses me off about dead beat pairents is the fact that they do not seem to give a rats ass about there kids and so without take the time to raise them right they say " I can't be bathored or I'm to busy with work and what not."
It's that type of fucking piss poor atadtude that alowes the scumbs like ones in Trinty bay to get away with there evil.
That's one flaws of capaitalishm work work and more work whiile the home lifes goes for a shit due to lake of time to raise the kids right, stree due to a fas paces life stayle and for to so called upper class they become so jaded that they see kids as more of a status symbol them a living human being and let there jaded atatude rub off on there kids as well as spoiling them rooten so that he come to see the less well off namely the avarge work joe who porvides them there money though there hard work as something less then human.
At lest that's how I see things
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