Teen Killed After Strapping Rocket to Skateboard

Newser ^ | Apr 5, 2016 | Newser Editors and Wire Services

[Morgana]

Beavis or Butthead?

[Resolute Conservative]

Yeah, weed is harmless...

[Gamecock]

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Seriously, I did a lot of dumb things at that age, some might have gotten me killed. Sad story.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is a reason it is called rocket SCIENCE. Morons shouldn’t be messing with them.

[Farmer Dean]

Stupidity is rapidly becoming the national pastime.

[G Larry]

Fortunately, my related attempts were limited to a CO2 cartridge.

[PGR88]

I don’t know details, but when we were kids, we were constantly experimenting (acting stupidly?) with things that shot projectiles, chemicals, and motors.

[from occupied ga]

sadly stupidity occasionally has consequences. Too bad Bernie and Hillary voters don’t blow themselves up. They’re certainly stupid enough.

[wattsgnu]

Sad story.
That’s how JPL got started. (Yes. The movie, The Martian had it correct.) “Back in the 1930s, a group of graduate students known as “the rocket boys” set off a small explosion in their dormitory building during a fueled rocket test, according to NASA’s history archive.”

I have the same drive as they do: to experiment. I planned on being an astronaut. I’m a power supply design engineer instead. I’ll do the rocket thing in retirement.

[navet97]

Did he get the rocket from Acme? Sounds like a Wile E. Coyote stunt!

[Company Man]

(Insert Stupid Games / Stupid Prizes meme here.)

[AppyPappy]

Chemistry class in HS (Me) Hey is there a possibility this could blow up?
Of course.
Then let’s do it outside. (It blew up)

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[JoeProBono]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Fortunately, my related attempts were limited to a CO2 cartridge.

My friend and I used cardboard TP tubes, sections of rubber tire tubes (the part with the valve) and gasoline siphoned from Dad's car. I'm still amazed I'm still alive.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[Mrs. Don-o]

I feel sorry for the kids and their parents. Honestly, they were doing what normal boys do. Some make a mistake and get killed.

I am saddened by the lack of sympathy in some of the remarks posted here.

[KevinB]

Fortunately, my related attempts were limited to a CO2 cartridge.

While in elementary school I had a classmate who blew a hole through his heart trying to make a bomb out of a CO2 cartridge.