JATO Rocket Car

The account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly spectacularly met his death after mounting a JATO unit (a rocket engine used to help heavy aircraft to take off) onto an ordinary automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email.

In 1996, after numerous inquiries, the Arizona Department of Public Safety issued a news release posted on their website concerning the story. It was termed the story "an Arizona myth."

The story was also debunked in 2003 on the pilot episode of MythBusters, titled "Jet Assisted Chevy".

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