# Strapped on homemade rocket (bomb) blows up old coot sledding.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 2, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397 "2010-02-02T16:36:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/1 "2010-02-02T16:36:58Z")
You’ll marvel at his stupidity.
[Boom!](http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/02/sledding_fail_clarkston_man_ho.html) :eek:
You marveled. I saw you marvel. You definitely marveled at his stupidity.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/2 "2010-02-02T16:41:29Z")
Sadly, he is not eligible for a Darwin Award, this time.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/3 "2010-02-02T16:45:37Z")
> [@](#):
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> “Apparently, he has this sledding party every year, and he always does outrageous things at it, but he’s never blown himself up before,” Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe told the Detroit Free Press.
I immediately finished that statement with “… so he decided it was time to do so.”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/4 "2010-02-02T16:50:55Z")
I can’t get the video to play at work, but I imagine it’s one of those “Early Days of Flight” compilations where they strap rockets to the back of a guy on ice skates.
Honestly, how many of us can say we’ve never done something like that “because it seemed like a good idea at the time?”
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/5 "2010-02-02T17:55:55Z")
“Witnesses say the last thing they heard him say was, “Hold my beer and watch this!””
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/6 "2010-02-02T17:58:46Z")
I’ve asked a mod to close my earlier posting of this story. Carry on.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/7 "2010-02-02T18:02:23Z")
You know, you need a license to buy a dog, or to drive a car, hell you even need a license to catch a fish. But they’ll let any butt-reamin’ asshole be a bottle rocket.
**evilroy**
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/8 "2010-02-02T18:03:35Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> I’ve asked a mod to close my earlier posting of this story. Carry on.
You have nothing to apologize for. Maybe they can merge the threads.
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### Author:  [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/9 "2010-02-02T18:09:00Z")
Heard just before the incident: “Here, hold my beer and watch this”.
The sad part of this story is there is no video. 🙂
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/10 "2010-02-02T18:13:07Z")
“a combination of gunpowder, match heads and gasoline stuffed in a motorcycle muffler”
How could it fail!?
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### Author:  [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/11 "2010-02-02T18:16:38Z")
2nd degree burns of 18 percent of his body. That’s painful, but I expected a lot worse. Unless there are some pretty bad complications, he’ll probably live.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/12 "2010-02-02T18:20:33Z")
It may have worked if he used some sort of cereal-varnish.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/13 "2010-02-02T18:28:36Z")
Perhaps they could use it on him instead. I mean isn’t it designed to coat and seal the flake?
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/14 "2010-02-02T18:31:16Z")
“Up next on Mythbusters…”
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/15 "2010-02-02T18:34:19Z")
> [@Duke](#):
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> “Up next on Mythbusters…”
Am I missing…my back hair?
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/16 "2010-02-02T18:35:56Z")
I wish I knew if this guy ever worked for NASA.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/17 "2010-02-02T18:43:23Z")
And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time 'til dumbshit brings his sled around to slide.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/18 "2010-02-02T18:45:59Z")
Do you think the folks at the hospital are calling this guy “The Rocketeer?”
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/19 "2010-02-02T18:58:08Z")
“I’m going to miss Hollywood…”
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strapped-on-homemade-rocket-bomb-blows-up-old-coot-sledding/527397/20 "2010-02-02T19:06:52Z")
> [@tacoloco](#):
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> Heard just before the incident: “Here, hold my beer and watch this”.
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> The sad part of this story is there is no video. 🙂
I posted it first, so I WIN! 😃
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