Shatter-Proof Windshield

"Shatter-Proof Windshield"

AP Wire (New York)--

In 1994 scientists at NASA developed a gun built
specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields
of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all
traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate
the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl
to test the strength of aerospace windshields.

British engineers heard about the gun and were eager
to test it on the windshield of their new high-speed trains.
Arrangements were made to borrow the gun.

But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood
shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel,
crashed into the shatter proof shield, smashed it to
smithereens, crashed through the control console,
snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded
itself in the back wall of the cabin.

Horrified, the British sent NASA the disastrous results
of the experiment, along with the designs of the
windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for
suggestions.

NASA e-mailed a response of just one sentence:
"Thaw the chicken."

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"Bad Driver"

A grizzled old man was eating in a Bakersfield, CA
truck stop when three Hell's Angels bikers walked
in.

The first walked up to the old fellow, pushed his
cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a
seat at the counter.

The second walked up to the old man, spit into
his coffee and took a seat at the counter.

The third walked up to the old man, turned over his
plate, and then he took a seat at the counter with
buddies . . .

Without a word of protest, the old man quietly paid
his bill and left the diner. One of the bikers said to
the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?"

Shaking her head, she replied, "No . . . not much
of a truck driver either. He just backed his truck
over three motorcycles."
Received on Wed Mar 28 12:30:14 2007