Inventor Not A Rocket Scientist Sledder

Hey Silverhorner's Welcome to ficticious Silverhorn Lodge on equally ficticious Silverhorn Mountain! It's Friday night here on the Silverhorn? What day is it where you are?

One thing about writing for The View From Silverhorn Mountain....there is no shortage of stuff to tell you about. Take for instance this story from the Associated Press. It seems a 62 year old man from Michigan blew himself up while sledding. Now first of all, I have to question what a 62 year old guy is doing sledding ? anyway....I suppose he is was in pretty good physical shape when he started, it's his mental state that has to be called into question. Why you ask? Because he strapped a homemade rocket to his back before he started down the sled hill. The unnamed inventor-not-a-rocket-scientist-sledder was having a sledding party with some of his friends, I'm sure some of whom he was hoping to convince to invest in his new invention.  I'm not making this up folks, this really happened...

Now...that sounds pretty cool, a homemade rocket strapped to your back for sledding....the rocket was an automobile muffler filled with gasoline and gunpowder which the inventor-not-a-rocket-scientist-sledder then set afire...a-fire....Yee haw!!! Because gasoline gunpowder and fire tend to do one thing, explode! His homemade rocket did just that as he headed down hill, causing second degree burns to his face, right side of his body and quite likely some eye damage as well as eliciting some screaming both from him and any onlookers who may have been there to witness what is likely one of Michigan's stupider sled tricks....

Unfortunately no one got a video of  our inventor-not-a-rocket-scientist-sledder, but that doesn't stop us from having a laugh at some other sledder's expense!