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  • Great story; doesn't matter how many times it's told and retold. It's a classic.

  • Wow 300 FT wouldn't that be like 30-35 floors in height?

  • youtube.com/watch?v=UZU6NTaZ2I­g&feature=fvst is a must see after this

  • am i the only one who think Postal 2 misses something like this?

  • you couldnt get a dumber, lousier, fucked up, bull shit story from anywhere!!!

    every aspect of this story is wrong, if you like this you are a lib. duhhhh!

  • haha lol my teacher told me about this the other day, thought he was lieing xD

  • @ziDMx LOOL my teacher showed me this one too! XD

  • this is from film called Darwin Awards

  • the music is Golden Earring - Radar Love THUMBS UP to see the musics name!

  • You fucking did something alright!!! The most expensive suicide in history maybe? Call guiness.

  • "I fucking did something!!!"

    Gotta hand it to him, many people never earn those last words :)

  • Real!

  • You do realize someone did this, this is just a dramatization.

  • @TheAirsofter1337 Nobody did this, it's just an urban legend that's been debumked by numerous sources.

  • @sidwills actually some guy really did this,mythbusters made a fully functioning car with JATO rockets and it worked as this one should have,but when they made another one and tried to replicate what happened here,the car didn´t work and just exploded.someone did this,but it is unknown who and what really happened.

  • @TheRaptorsaur actually that myth was based on the "turbonique" products of the 60s. they made rocket superchargers, rocket powered axles and lastly, rocket thrust engines specifically designed to attach to the back of just about anything with wheels

  • @MrRapistman Hm interesting Perhaps a chopper jet engine would be better?

  • i thought there was going to be a police officer somewhere checking speed limits

  • whats the music??????????????????

  • what is the song at 1:05-3:30?

  • @TheRaptorsaur Radar love by golden earring

  • @TheRaptorsaur Golden Earring - Radar love

  • @TheRaptorsaur the song is radar love not sure by who , from the darwin rocket car

  • @Lorenzo123321KL= Golden earring.

  • It is actually real. The man used to work in the NASA. He tried to brake, but the brakes melted and he took off at about 500 km/h. He crashed on a cliff, and only a small part of his teeth was found on the crash site.

  • Isn't that the guy that played Sweet Johnny on My Name is Earl?

  • he never put it in neutral

  • Even regading previous comments, this man has now become a personal hero of mine!

  • 22 people let something happen XD

  • Another candidate for award see "Jihad gone wrong" on youtube.

  • could I die like him?

  • We're going to be on TV! woooo

  • LOL, U MAD?

  • best way to die

  • epic win i guess

  • I FUCKING DID SOMETHING

  • If ever I get a terminal illness, I'm doing this, for sure. :P

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  • @nolifemerc not with a solid fuel pack he didn't. he'd of been doing that in the first second.

  • @nolifemerc Pft, I could do that without a giant rocket. Just give me a '69 Daytona charger ;)

  • @firebat42 he said in the end: i fucking did something.

  • @nolifemerc No, what I was referencing to was that if this car was doing a realistic 220mph, a 1969 Charger Daytona with a 426 HEMI was capable of doing, but without a rocket. Of course any team of engineers could probably achieve such a speed with enough funding.

  • Clearly with multiple cameras and well-recorded dialogue, this can't be a recording of events as they occurred. There was a guy who strapped a jet engine to his body and did something similar to this in the mid-90's. He crashed into a canyon wall after a long "flight" over the valley floor. The movie is loosely based on facts. All true events in Darwin Awards archives!

  • but he had his seatbelt on!

  • @105mmgunner= That won't help if he's going faster than the Flash.

  • i wana be a rocket man lol

  • There was some lunatic that did a version of this. There's a video getting around called "Devil at your heels." This lunatic wanted to use a rocket powered car to launch over the river that forms the Canadian/US border. It was "specially designed" for the job, but that fancy fibreglass body wasn't up to the job, and it crashed into the water about 2/3 of the way across

  • Thank God for all the "It's fake!" comments. I thought it was a documentary.

  • @zealotoi812 It was a reenactment of an alledgedly real event, done for a movie called "The Darwin Awards." Some say it didn't really happen, but Mythbusters showed that it could have actually been done, and somehow, I think this was indeed based of a real event that went real bad for the driver!

  • @paladin313 actually the mythbusters busted it

  • Bogus Shiza..There never was a rocket car that flew into a stinking mountain..And if there was,it wouldn't play out like this total boring buffoonery.

  • The Darwin Awards is one of my favorite movies of the 2000's and I really don't understand why so many people hate it - the storyline is interesting and not typical. In general this film was weird a little bit but still brilliant in its own way. Joseph Fiennes and my lovely Winona Ryder were impressive plus many cameo actors and actresses and Metallica of course.

    Brilliant and soooooo underrated film! I would like to see a sequel

  • hamlet

  • most overrated movie of all time it fkn sucked.

  • wait couldnt he have cut the fuel to the engine?

  • @BloodScorchedSun Wouldn't have done any good for two reasons. 1, JATOs are solid fuel systems. 2, in this case, he was using a jet engine pulling quite a few G's. In any case. . . .

    This

    Is

    WRECKAGE!!!

    (You were expecting "Sparta?" Muahahaha!)

  • They did it on mythbusters, The jato wont cause liftoff its just effin fast!

  • In the original story, it was a 16 year old kid in his Dad's '57 Chevy, and they didn't find him until 20 years after he vanished. Even then, all they found was a bumper.

  • HAHA I remember this scene...I need to watch this movie again

  • This man shouldn't be in the Darwin Awards. This man should be the awards for Testicular Fortitude!

  • This movie is definitly worth Netflixing, its a hoot!

  • i wanto drive whit that car yeah i totaly want to drive whit that one

  • mm well that was boring how was tht funny?

  • darwin awards go to Western culture. the culture that's destroyed the environment and the chance of survival for the entire human race.

    the idiot culture that never understood Darwin or later developments in human genome studies which conclude our intimate genetic relationship to one another throughout the world.

    the grand idiot culture that assumes it's a good risk to reproduce in a world its destroyed where 20 years from now there won't be any more drinking water for their offspring.

  • @sonbarably Hey at least we aren't killing off jews.

  • @sonbarably Like there arent retards in other countries. Look at China. They're destroying their own country with over mining dumping toxic chemicals into their rivers, and destroying forests to build cities. Get your facts straight and your head out of your ass before you open your mouth.

  • didn't they test this on the first episode of mythbusters

  • @illlite There was thing they didn't get right on Mythbusters; the angle the rocket was mounted on the roof. It was pointed at a slight downward angle. There was no "ramp" involved. All they proved was that strapping a rocket to a car will make it go VERY @#%&ing FAST! The veering off the road wouldn't work because the steering wouldn't respond at that speed. However, if there was a bend in the road, it could have happened like this if someone really WAS this stupid

  • i thought hte darwin awards where stuff people did in real life?

  • @dbspaceoditty ... Well, this is part of the movie ''Darwin Award''... all the cases in this film are true stories... A guy really did this

  • @Barnakos - no, it has since been debunked as an urban legend by none other than Wendy Northcutt, Ms Darwin Awards herself.

  • Ok, who honestly thinks this is real??

  • I'm a big fan of reading darwin awards and they do reckon some clown did this,and died,the car did fall apart and go out of control due to stress but I'm not quite sure about the part of it getting airborne,that does seem a bit hard to believe

  • Did this guy survive?

  • No!! This was a long standing urban myth but it never happened. Mythbusters shot this one down. If I'm not careful, all you Know It All rocket scientists will have this guy being tracked by NORAD!!

  • @MadTarnsman Don't believe everything you hear on Mythbusters.

  • @MadTarnsman Mythbusters has a safety requirement, Hearvy obviously didn't...

  • It's funny cause it was real !

    If you want to get a sense of what this guy went through ride the Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point , probably the closest you can get without dieing ... rofl

    0 to 120 mph in 4 sec, 420 feet straight up at a 90 degree angle then a 270 degree twist and 420 ft straight down at 90 degree angle, that's one wild ride !!

    I couldn't even imagine 400 mph .... damn !!

  • What about shutting the ignition off?

  • @Barnakos He couldnt reach it because of the G force

  • @Barnakos solid fuel rocket. you cant shut it off

  • @Bluea88 Bzzzzzzzzzt sorry wrong answer. he clearly says in the video that it is a liquid fuel rocket at 1:24 "the first two switches mix the fluids. Once mixed they become one of the most potent rocket fuels" a liquid fuel rocket can be extinguished just by turning off the fuel pump (switch one)

  • @Barnakos The jato rocket ran on it's own fuel and there was too much speed to just stop anyway.

  • @Barnakos i Think the G Force was to big :DDDD

  • @Barnakos it`s just a engine it dosen`t have the wiring planes have in order to shut it off

  • @Barnakos Its a solid rocket booster it physically cant be turned off its what they used on the shuttle much the same as a firework.

  • I'm so glad I'm not married.

  • Just about the funniest thing I've ever seen.

  • Does anyone know what is the song in the background?

  • @RnRSerbia Radar love by Golden Earring

  • @KHistheman Děkuji :)

  • @RnRSerbia Hehe,thanks for reply in czech.

  • This is a classic by anyone's standards

  • @everyone... After seeing this clip I was excited to see the movie but after manageing to watch the whole movie and not fall asleep this is the only part worth seeing.

  • I hate the dumass in the dumbass car,they funk`d it all upppp:)

  • What movie is this??? Anyone know??

  • @kachinababe "The Darwin Awards" (2006)

  • This one never took place, some asshole made this Rocket car up, but plenty of other idiots who have killed themselves in stupid ways, like the 16 year old wierdo who elecuted himself having sex with a cow heart in the deep south!!!

  • @WICKEDMAN85= Wasn't that on 1,000 Ways To Die? Oh yeah, it was.

  • dude this movie is crazy haha

  • what film is this from?

  • this... is... a great idea

  • That's where Mythbusters got that idea to do that. I got an old car that I don't drive, anyone have a spare JATO?

  • @hotrodrm250 watch the whole movie... there are more then a few myth done in it... and A and J have a guessed spot in the movie.... in fact their characters are the ones that sold the JATO rocket to this guy.

  • @hotrodrm250 The episode with rocket car was before the film.

  • 400 mph, molten tires and you're trying to tell me he VEERED? stupid bullshit ...

  • @MightyGoldenBoy Yeah, he totally did. I'm just trying to figure out how the pace car kept up.

  • YEEHAW now that's living!!

  • What movie is this from??

  • i think they tried this on Mythbusters but idk lol

  • @ElfenLiedPhsycoFan Yeh the mythbusters guys are in the movie

  • @zingzangholy lol rly?

  • what song is it????

  • @Frogger564 Google lyrics... "radar love"

  • FUCK YEAH, brilliant.

  • The real event happened in the early 60's in Arizona and wasn't as spectacular, the guy who stole the rocket motor leaped out of the car the second he fired the JATO (and thus survived the incident) The car only flew about 10 feet into the air and crashed into a tree.

  • i saw dis movie very funy .

    but how did it explode with no gas?

  • @shjesus It exploded due to the movie crew recording it and wanted to sell the movie. They stuck a bunch of TNT into a PC and did some truly explosive graphics.

  • folks, it's just an urban legend, so don't try to find a solution, which would have prevented his dead

  • It might have worked if the car wasn't shaped like a brick, if the glass was well curved and made of polycarbonate, and if the body was made of titanium or magnesium.

  • Quick question...if the fuel had burned out...why in the hell did it explode on impact??HMM?

  • car fuel ADUUUUURRR..  your question =a darwin award

  • @trunk516 first of all this is a re enactment...kind of exaggerated

  • The car engine still had a fuel tank left.

  • @trunk516 why not

  • @dieudutonnerre

    Golden Earing - Radar love.

    It is a dutch band, i m a bit prud here :D

  • JATOs: My anti-drug

  • I saw this movie, for the first time, stoned with my friends

    and when this moment happened

    it was pure comedy gold

    highly recommend this movie with friends and bud

  • @WillsVargas -.- why do people get thumbed up for saying they were on drugs. pathetic

  • @MEareCAT - buzzkill newbcake fake gay - use more drugs.

  • @WillsVargas Goddamn crackhead. 

  • @WillsVargas friends & weed :P

  • @WillsVargas Oh cram it and smoke another joint hippie. JK.

  • Woah!!! Joseph Fiennes!!!! :D:D:D:D

  • I love this film!

    And this piece is cool.

    What's the name of the song heard?

  • @ObscureAfel Radar love by Golden Earring

  • Great vid. Perfect casting. Harvey went out in a blaze of glory, but that poor married

    shlub suffers to this day.......

  • Why some people do things like that? Yeah, I know they might be a little stupid, but why having such an idea? Is it something like a self destruction gene inside them or what?

  • Don't rockets like that have to have in intake in the front of it? cuz that chevy had the front of rocket inside of the car.

  • Nope, Jets do have intakes, rockets don´t, check it out in wiki if you please

  • haha, no i believe you.

  • Rockets do not have air intakes, they don't need them.

  • One Problem: The Air Force prohibits use of JATO Units by civilians. Second there is no way a cay can fly like that if you stuck rockets on you car.

  • 1. of course not, he stole it. 2. depends on the circumstances, and it wasn't flying.

  • "I did it...I fucking did something"...priceless

  • @krazydrummer The guy behind me in the theater. "Yeah, Harvey, You did something! You proved that at 300 mph you can make an instamatic grave into Terra Vera Firma." Further comments edited due to language.

  • hmmmmm strap one of a jetpack frame

  • Priceless. It is scene from The Darwin Awards movie, best scene ever. Btw: those guys who sold him that rocket (they are not here, but in the movie) are guys from MythBusters. :-D

  • the JATO!

  • I can't think of a more glorious way that a man could possibly meet his end!!

  • If this were plausible the rocket booster would have been a JATO bottle, which uses solid propellent.

  • @augdog1230 What do you mean if it were plausible?

  • @verdemanthe1

    If this was believable, the Jet Assisted Take Off bottle uses solid fuel, not two liquid fuels that are mixed.

  • @augdog1230 besides that you could strap the rocket to your chevy and go 400mph right?

  • @augdog1230 why not I think It could,I would try it myself but I got no rocket or means to get one,so i tell you what,you buy me a rocket and I will strap it to my caprice and we will see if it can do 400mph

  • @verdemanthe1

    They are called the Darwin Awards for a reason..

    Sure! I'd love to help you in your endevour!

  • cool,problem is I checked all surplus sites and cannot find any jato rockets for sale but we can make one,I am compiling a parts list and I am pretty sure it can be made for less than $2000 (lucky us) If my calculations are correct a solid fuel rocket with 200lbs of fuel would generate 46000lbs of thrust for about 30seconds I dont know how fast that would get me,maybe we better make it 400lbs,I have a caprice I can paint it pink,the salt flats are the only safe place to test it,still down?

  • @verdemanthe1 id love to watch!

  • @verdemanthe1

    Don't forget the cost of my plane ticket and hotel/car

  • I thought you were covering the costs as I have no money,I plan on driving to the test site

  • im down for it

  • Narrowly avoiding a Volvo 240

  • i admire this man.

  • This never happened in real life! This is an "Darwin Award Fake"!!!!

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  • My rocket car will soon be launched. Have Commander Nodrog for driver......pilot. He excells with experimental conveyance and this will be fun challenge for him. See ya in the headlines. Back to the Future Head Engineer

  • I have for this man a strange ammiration...

  • He went about 450 mph not bad

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  • looks a good film

  • the couldnt find a better car than a pink oldsmobile?

    no wonder they only did 300. A Bugatti can do 250 without potent rocket fuel.

  • Isn't he just as irrational as people who killed themselves because of speeding, he just get faster.

  • What show is this from? Great recreation.

    Even the Darwin Awards people admit that they can find no evidence it actually happened, even though this was awarded the Darwin Award for 1995.

  • Red Eye Love ???????? radar love jackass

  • I love this Movie!

  • jackass  lol

  • this is the funniest thing i've ever seen. i love it at like 1:54 when he just starts going, "HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTT". and the end when the guy in the car is just like wtf? hahaha

  • Pretty sure this really happened, except with a '67 Impala