Iowahawk: Biden Vows to Jump Canyon by Amtrak

Iowahawk | February 9, 2011 | David Burge

[EveningStar]

GRAND CANYON, AZ - Standing on the rim of the gaping two-mile wide chasm of the Grand Canyon in a star-spangled jumpsuit, Joe Biden today announced a new $53 billion federal high speed rail program that will include funding for "SkyTrain X-2," a new experimental locomotive that, if successful, will make him the first known U.S. Vice President to jump the Grand Canyon by rail.

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[EveningStar]

Profanity warning.

[EveningStar]

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[Upstate NY Guy]

Too much! Excellent. Thanks.

[Army Air Corps]

Choo choo ping.

[Constitution Day]

I’ll bet that Willie Green wouldn’t find this funny at all! Not one little bit.

[surfer]

This is great...this is on par with the stained barney jumper!!!

[GeronL]

bing bing bing bing .... CHOOO- CCHHHOOOoooooooooooooo....... clank clank clank clank.....

The sound of the future.

[calex59]

Whatever happened to Willie anyway, I miss his constant railroad posts(not really).

[Leisler]

According to the project press kit, Biden will be attempting the jump in a train of his own design. After a TSA patdown, Biden will board the 8-car, 150 ton UAW-built train, accelerate to nearly 80 miles per hour up a 1200-foot launch ramp, touchdown on the far side of the canyon, and retreive his baggage from the carousel.

LaHood dismissed criticisms of the project for being unneccessarily dangerous.

"Are there risks? Absolutely," said LaHood. "But did a little danger scare off Orville & Wilbur Redenbacher? But we've taken every precaution, including emergency parachutes and padding the bottom of the canyon with a 50 foot deep cushion of $100 bills."

[Roscoe Karns]

[musicman]

[backwoods-engineer]

Funny! One of your best since ‘Chutch’!

[FrankR]

[TChad]

[BlueDragon]

It's the small details scattered throughout that make this stuff so hilarious;

After a TSA patdown, Biden will board the 8-car, 150 ton UAW-built train...

...the crown jewel of which will be the 'Sustainability Express' subterranean solar train, providing non-stop service...