[SOC] SOC

[Bob Nielsen]

It must be time for this year's Darwin awards!

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:35:03PM +0100, Paul Bartlett wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> There is SOC and there is SOC but this must take the biscuit.
> 
> There is myth and urban myth but this one is true and made me laugh rather a
> lot..
> 
> It is from a report from the London Sunday Telegraph. I'm trying to track
> down a URL and will post it when I manage to find it.
> 
> A complete lunatic called Giuseppe Cannella has attached a turbojet engine
> to a wheel chair and is attempting to break the wheel chair speed record.
> The engine is made by Rolls-Royce and is about a foot long. Cruise missile
> size I would guess. He's managed 65 mph on the runway at RAF Barkston Heath
> in Lincolnshire so far but is attempting to improve the speed over the next
> few days.
> 
> The wheelchair belongs to his mother-in-law.
> 
> Do I detect a sub-plot here?
> 
> Paul ;-)