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To: Buckeye McFrog

“about the Yugo which blew off of the Mackinac Bridge in 1987.”

??!! You have to tell us about that one.


62 posted on 11/10/2009 4:01:35 PM PST by Pelham ("Badges?!! We don' need no stinkin' badges!!")
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To: Pelham

In 1989, 31-year-old Leslie Ann Pluhar, driving a 1987 Yugo over the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, was literally blown off over the bridge’s 36-inch railing by 50 MPH gales. This event was widely publicized at the time and is still referred to today in terms of the car. In actuality every driver that day had been warned against traversing the bridge. Pluhar had insisted on making the crossing, and officials said later that excess speed was a factor in her death.


68 posted on 11/10/2009 4:42:07 PM PST by packrat35 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
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To: Pelham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2eCFoafXk&feature=related


73 posted on 11/10/2009 6:09:01 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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