Posted on 02/22/2020 6:58:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
A man died in what authorities described as a rocket crash in the desert in Barstow on Saturday afternoon.
The deadly crash was reported just before 2 p.m. on a private property along Highway 247, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a written statement. "A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event," the statement said. Medical help was already on-site, but the pilot could not be saved.
Authorities did not identity the pilot pending positive identification by coroner's officials. Witnesses and news reports indicted the launch was an event hosted by local daredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes, an amateur rocket builder intent on proving that the Earth is flat.
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With all the meth labs out there blowing up, surprise anyone noticed this.......
Anyone that has spent any time in Barsotw knows what an armpit it is. Bikers and drug makers.
Yup. ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’
Funniest book I’ve ever read! LOL
I was stationed there at the Marine Corps Supply Center at Barstow in the early 70s. It is the west coast supply center and Repair facility for everything except aircraft. Dry desert climate makes for good storage conditions. Not much there then, the town, the bars, the Goldstone bar, and there was a girl behind every tree for young single Marines. Nothing as exciting as that went on when I was there. A lot of dumbassery here and there but no Wiley Coyotes launching themselves into the desert floor.
I was born in Barstow, lived there till 1971.
Looked more like he shot himself out of a cannon than a rocket launch. And he went all splatty anyhow.
It happens.
Looked more like he shot himself out of a cannon than a rocket launch. And he went all splatty anyhow.
It happens.
Space Shuttle is a close second to the glorious SR-71.
Friend of mine introduced me to an app named Flipboard. Still not sure if I like it or not. Has various links with headers of Politics, Crime, Aviation, News, plus several others. The user selects which ones. For some unknown reason this story is under the header of Comedy.
The parachute designed to drop him down gently to the ground was deployed at the beginning of his ascent. If it was able to snap off the rocket at lift off speed, it certainly would not have stayed on during the descent. What caused the premature parachute deployment? Who designed the parachute?
Not sure if he ever got high enough to see that the Earth isn’t flat, but he certainly learned, quite literally the hard way, that gravity (something else he didn’t believe in) is in fact very real.
Where were all the protesters trying to save him from himself? Wasn’t there even one? I thought there were all kinds of nuts showing up to his events. The creeps got what they were there for.
Winner winner chicken dinner! Congrats to “Madd Mike” and his undisputed early win of the 2020 Darwin Award. He left this world in the form that he saw it ;-)
That’s because Barstow is the stop off point of people driving to Vegas. And yes, that McDonald’s is always packed!
He was flat in the end, so I guess the Earth was flat right where he hit.
He proved something; he’s not so hot on theory.
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