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Posted on 08.25.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:48 pm
Back in the 1980s, when I was young and foolish enough to find him entertaining, David Letterman used to drop fruits, vegetables, canned foods and anything else he could think of from a building several stories high just to see how they exploded when they hit the concrete. I loved those segments. I don’t recall whether Letterman’s antics inspired it or not, but West Virginia University started an annual pumpkin drop in 1989 while I was a student there. The goal of the engineering school’s contest is the opposite — to keep the pumpkins from shattering on impact and as close to the target as possible — but most of the pumpkins (108 out of 130 last year) explode when they land. I thought of Letterman and my alma mater today as I watched this video of a bunch of ingenious rednecks driving remote-controlled cars off a cliff just for the fun of it. The biggest surprise to me was that the event happened in Wisconsin. It sounded like a party a good ol’ boy down South would concoct. But the Wisconsin boys showed they aren’t enlightened rednecks when they ended the day by taking a “redneck bow” — they mooned the spectators. Filed under: Entertainment and Just For Laughs and Rednecks and Video and West Virginia Comments:
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