Mad man cuts house in two

HILLSBORO, Ohio - A man angry that he wasn't going to be sold a house is accused of using a power saw to turn the abode into a convertible.

Rodney Rogers apparently thought an acquaintance was going to build a house and sell it to him, and he was living in it while it was being completed, Highland County Sheriff Ronald Ward said Wednesday.

After the acquaintance refused to complete the sale, Rogers made a lateral cut through the walls and siding at about chest level, authorities said.

He cut all the way around the house, Ward said.

Only one thing was keeping the top half of the house in place on the bottom half.

"Gravity," Ward said.

The owners had not estimated the dollar value of the damage, Ward said.

WTF?  What does yellow taste like?  Ewww....

• Pedestrian Factor - If there are pedestrians anywhere in the general vicinity, then they will be exactly in one's way, not just nearby.
• Bouncing debris on the highway will impact your vehicle.
• A seen bug will hit your helmet facemask.  Or, a seen stone will hit your windshield.
• If you are biking, driving or boating, and there's a single hazard in the whole area, you have a high likelyhood of hitting it.

Malconvergence is a subset of convergassurance.

• Infatuation
• Justification
• Appropriation
• Obsession
• Resale

"It ain't what ya don't know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin' on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain't so." -- Uncle Remus

Take note:

• General Motors' customers
• Harley Davidson fans
• Republicans

Acceleration:  a perspective

• One Top Fuel dragster outfitted with a 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (8,000 HP) than the first 4 rows at NASCAR's Daytona 500... ( Aaarrgh !! )
   
• Under full throttle, a dragster engine will consume 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded Boeing 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate but with 25% less energy being produced.
   
• A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster's supercharger.
   
• With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lockup at full throttle.
   
• At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
   
• Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
   
• Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. Which is typically the output of an electric arc welder in each cylinder.
   
• Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass.
   
• After 1/2 way thru the run, the engine is 'dieseling' from compression and the glow of the exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow....
   
• If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with enough force sufficient to blow the cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half!
   
• Dragsters reach over 300 MPH +... before you have completed reading this sentence.
  
  In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, a dragster must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before reaching half-track, at launch the acceleration approaches 8 G's.
  
  The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
  
  THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid for, the pit crew is working for free, & NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run will cost an estimated $1000 per second.
  
  0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
  
  0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
  
  6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
  
  6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin 'chutes at 300 MPH
  
  An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle....or snapping your fingers !!
  
  The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher).
  
  So, in summary...Let's now put this all into perspective:
  
  Imagine this....You are driving a new $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z-06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to 'launch' down a quarter-mile strip as you pass.
  
  You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard, on up through the gears and blast across the starting line, and pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH.... The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that exact moment.
  
  The dragster departs & starts after you. You keep your foot buried hard to the floor, and suddenly you hear an incredibly brutally screaming whine that sears and pummels your eardrums & within a mere 3 seconds the dragster effortlessly catches & passes you.
  
  He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it - from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH....and it not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the planet when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race !!!
  
  That my friends.....is acceleration