Good one. I laughed so hard I spilled my beer!
Tim
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From: chuck nicodemus <armorseal@spiretech.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Black Boxes]
> Food for thought and jest wondering?
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> The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged that they had
for
> the past five years
> covertly funded a project with US auto makers whereby the auto makers
> installed black boxes in
> four wheel drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal
> accidents, the circumstances in the
> last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find in 44 of
the
> 50 states that the last
> words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh, Shit!" Only
> the states of West Virginia,
> Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee were
> different, where over 89.3
> percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer and watch this."
>
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