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Driver and passenger die trying to jump drawbridge with car in Louisiana
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | 24 April 2019 | GINA SALAMONE

Posted on 05/25/2019 7:42:03 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: DUMBGRUNT
For some reason gravity started working instantly instead of after the normal three second delay as shown in the Wile E. Coyote physics documentaries.


41 posted on 05/25/2019 8:17:24 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Alcohol I’m sure was involved.


42 posted on 05/25/2019 8:18:22 AM PDT by redangus
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To: I want the USA back

Hey, if you learned physics from cartoons, you don’t fall until you study the law of gravity.


43 posted on 05/25/2019 8:20:31 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: dp0622

#### em.

Oh, be nice!

Among the many problems for their families and friends, their car drowned.

Cut them some slack.
PLs?


44 posted on 05/25/2019 8:21:33 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Once a mojado, always a mojado.


45 posted on 05/25/2019 8:23:38 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Who knew that gravity still worked at 2 AM?


46 posted on 05/25/2019 8:24:22 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The passenger’s last words were reportedly: “Fix the cigarette lighter.”


47 posted on 05/25/2019 8:24:50 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: freedumb2003

They watched ALL 3 Smokey and the Bandit movies. what more learnin on physics does ya need?

Also, they calculated, worst-case scenario, the car gets wet, their buddy will use his 4WD to extract it and set it in the sun for a day or two...


48 posted on 05/25/2019 8:26:49 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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I told my hubby, “Hold my beer and watch this, Martha!” Oh, it was not the Texan, it was the Okie...


49 posted on 05/25/2019 8:26:55 AM PDT by buffyt (Not a Choice, it's a CHILD in the womb. We may have aborted the person with the cure for cancer!)
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Steven Wright once said “put your seatbelt on I saw this in a cartoon once and I think I can do it...”


50 posted on 05/25/2019 8:27:32 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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They watched ALL 3 Smokey and the Bandit movies. what more learnin on physics does ya need?

LOL, that’s what I was thinking. They needed Bandit driving that car for maximum effect......sorry their booze(?) and stupidity cost them........big time!


51 posted on 05/25/2019 8:28:01 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: dp0622

And maybe, they were running nitrous?
Or maybe they were sniffing it?
Both?


52 posted on 05/25/2019 8:28:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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Apparently they watched too many movies and thought that jumping bridges was an everyday real life occurrence.

It was a lesson well taught, for they will never try that again.


53 posted on 05/25/2019 8:32:07 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Sequoyah101

I lived in Texas for some time, and I believe Texas cowboys are a damn sight tougher than Florida guys.

Like baling wire, in fact.

Appears to me that this pair was taken down by John Barleycorn.


54 posted on 05/25/2019 8:36:20 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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55 posted on 05/25/2019 8:37:00 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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http://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/05/two-men-die-attempting-to-jump-drawbridge-in-2016-chevrolet-cruze/

A Chevy Cruze?! That wouldn't even work in the movies!
56 posted on 05/25/2019 8:38:49 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Life tries to imitate art. This works in many movies, e.g., The Blues Brothers.


57 posted on 05/25/2019 8:40:42 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin, we gonna do what they say can’t be done. There beer in Texarkana and they’re thirsty in Atlanta!” Where is Burt Reynolds and his Black TransAM when they are needed?


58 posted on 05/25/2019 8:46:20 AM PDT by vette6387
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Hah. Survivors should sue Hollywood for mis-portraying the laws of physics. The energy needed to land at the same height you took off from is incredible; a ramp doesn’t help much, because while the front wheels are off the ramp and the back wheels are still on, the car begins to pitch downward. Seriously, people... before attempting to do this, try it with HotWheels cars! (And no using the specially designed “catching” ramp, which is short and wide.)


59 posted on 05/25/2019 8:46:23 AM PDT by dangus
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That is why they have to make step ladders so ‘big’ anymore.

Need enough room to put all the ‘instructions’ on it..

Such as - which direction it should be pointing prior one attempting to climb it, a warning to NOT go above top step or - one of my favorites, Do not climb ladder when BOTH hands are full.....

The ‘logic’ (there I go again) of today says my 13yo daughter can get an abortion and it is ‘none of my business’ but my 15yo son can’t put gas in his mothers/grandmothers car EVEN if she is sitting right there. (of course a teen ager probably instigated that rule...<: <: <:)


60 posted on 05/25/2019 8:47:51 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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