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fact is funnier than fiction!
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:15 am
by drunkenmaxx
American Ingenuity at Work: From a 1999 police report in The Messenger (Madisonville, Ky.), concerning two trucks being driven strangely on a rural road: A man would drive one truck 100 yards, stop, walk back to a second truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the first truck, stop, walk back to the first truck, drive it 100 yards beyond the second truck, and so on. According to police, the man's brother had passed out drunk in one of the trucks, so the man decided to drive both trucks home. (Not surprisingly, a blood-alcohol test showed that he, too, was impaired.) [The Messenger, 5-7-99]maybe i should have put this in the "only in america" thread!
Re: fact is funnier than fiction! (drunkenvibe)
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:41 am
by ebslopp
So did he get one DUI or two?
Re: fact is funnier than fiction! (drunkenvibe)
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:41 am
by esjones
There's gotta be a good high school math problem here....If the man walks 100 yards in 2 minutes, and drives each truck 10 MPH during each "leap frog" movement, what is the optimum distance he should drive each truck ahead of the other one to get them both "home" in the least amount of time?
Re: fact is funnier than fiction! (esjones)
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:16 am
by Sputnik
Quote, originally posted by esjones »There's gotta be a good high school math problem here....If the man walks 100 yards in 2 minutes, and drives each truck 10 MPH during each "leap frog" movement, what is the optimum distance he should drive each truck ahead of the other one to get them both "home" in the least amount of time? ugh... my head hurts.
Re: fact is funnier than fiction! (esjones)
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:03 am
by redlava
Quote, originally posted by esjones »There's gotta be a good high school math problem here....If the man walks 100 yards in 2 minutes, and drives each truck 10 MPH during each "leap frog" movement, what is the optimum distance he should drive each truck ahead of the other one to get them both "home" in the least amount of time? Lemme just get my slide rule and a protractor and I will figure it out in a jiffy....TAKE A %&*#@%^ CAB!!!
Re: fact is funnier than fiction! (esjones)
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:49 am
by pwarren4
Quote, originally posted by esjones »There's gotta be a good high school math problem here....If the man walks 100 yards in 2 minutes, and drives each truck 10 MPH during each "leap frog" movement, what is the optimum distance he should drive each truck ahead of the other one to get them both "home" in the least amount of time? It's people like you that make people like me become ax murderers