[simpits-tech] Fighter pilot truths...

[Rob Hommel]

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Keep 'em Flying
Rob Hommel

At 09:28 PM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
>In a message dated 3/31/04 9:09:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>rhommel at tacoma.net writes:
>
>>The
>>best way to impress your neighbors is to fire rockets back at them.
>
>
>Very, very carefully........
>
>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Shannon Kramer's plans to fire a rocket toward 
>his girlfriend went awry when the firework ricocheted inside his car and 
>dived between his legs, bursting in a display that burned hair and skin 
>from his feet to his groin, police said.
>
>Kramer, 35, told The Florida Times-Union he lit a fuse on the 
>6-inch-rocket, but wasn't able to get it out the window of his Ford 
>Mustang before it went off.
>
>Seconds later, after the rocket blasted around inside the car, Kramer was 
>burned and temporarily blinded.
>
>``I thought I was dead,'' he said. ``I couldn't see, I couldn't hear. I 
>went to stand up and I couldn't walk.''
>
>Kramer said he suffered second-degree burns and a cut on one leg. His 
>eyelashes and a lot of body hair are gone and an outline of his sandals is 
>burned onto his feet.
>
>Jacksonville police were called to the explosion about 9:30 p.m. Sunday 
>and were told a man who had been threatening his girlfriend with a bomb 
>had a mishap.
>
>Kramer said he was only playing a prank and was intending to fire the 
>rocket out the window as he passed.
>
>Police referred the case to the State Attorney's Office, but prosecutors 
>declined to charge Kramer, police spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
>
>Kramer said the rocket, which resembled a bottle rocket, was the diameter 
>of a golf ball.
>
>``I had a couple but this was the biggest,'' he said. ``No more of those.''
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