Public service announcement: avoid launching drug-filled rockets from your car
posted July 11th 2005 8:18PM
Yeah, we know it's been a dilemma for some of you for a while now — finding the perfect way to jettison your stash should the long arm of the law find its way to you — but the verdict is in on at least one method: don't use vehicle-launching rockets. Luckily Michael Ray Sullivan and Joseph C. Seidl of Missouri did the groundwork for us all on this one, by rigging up a methamphetamine-filled rocket in the trunk of their car, triggered to ignite via the dashboard cigarette lighter. Trouble is, even with all that meth the rocket never got high when the cops actually did come to call and amusedly found $145,000 worth of crystal stuffed inside a hobby rocket in the trunk of their 1990 Ford Thunderbird. And even if the thing had flown, we're not 100% sure on this but we imagine the cops would probably have noticed a rocket launch — but hey, YMMV.
Damnit! *takes his model rocket apart*
heh heh heh, look at the google ads
I guess an idea like that only sounds good when you're, well, tweaking.
Fishes,
narco.
Plans to launch a drug filled international space station are now currently on hold (ba dum dum ch),
My hats off to them, damn good idea, just needed a bigger motor!
Well, while launching the rocket out of your car isn’t too bright, the actually idea of using a model rocket to quickly dispense with a small stash does seem feasible if you didn’t have to fumble around to get it air bound...not that I would know. The only "thing" I’ve ever used as a payload in my model rockets when I was a kid were small mice & grasshoppers.
Peace Pot & Paraquat
Dear guys who did this,
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
-Indolene
At 60 mph, a model rocket would go VERY fast. They can go over 100 mph, without the added speed of a highway chase. Any physics guys want to calculate how far you could launch a rocket going highway speeds?
Sounds like they were driving the new Aston Martin that will Vanquish your drug stash!
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Sounds something the Mythbusters would do if they ever went "rogue".
Thanks Engadget, now I have a stupid song stuck in my head...
"sky rockets in sight... afternoon delight"
EVERYONE: Afternoon delight!
How about a nice size helium balloon you can just let float away?
Had the rocket got off the ground it would have gone reaaaaaaal high, man.
umm I dunno if they were gonna actually fire the rocket from their car if they were busted. Sounds kinda like they were gonna use it like a method already in place involving remote control airplanes to cross borders or jail walls to make even more money. But what do I know anyways, just a guess.
I know Adam of the Mythbusters, should I ask him to investigate? :)
TK
Mythbusters rocks!
I agree with will, i think its some kind of crack head method to make money.
once again Mythbusters rocks!
My friends and I used to do this from his Fiat 128. We made Cigar tube rockets guided by a straw that mounted the rocket to his front arial. So while we were rally driving we'd push a button and ignite the thing. Of course the time it came right back at us and missed the windshield by inches was a bit spooky.
Ahh the stupid, filling my life with laughter one day at a time.
Similar thoughts 'Will~'. The only 'rational' way to involve rockets with an illegal drug operation is to use it to fly them over the border to be picked up by an accomplis.
That is, IF there IS a 'rational' way to involves model rockets in an illegal drug operation...
Only one thing missing, the remote trunk opener upper.