Air Date: March 2, 2005
Lighting a cigarette in a port-a-potty filled with methane gas will cause an explosion.
busted
Not enough gas is produced by the decomposing waste in the port-a-potty for it to possibly be flammable. A person would need to be in a tightly sealed port-a-potty filled with thick methane gas in order for it to be flammable. By the time the gas was thick enough in the air to become flammable the person would have long-since passed out from asphyxiation. Larger amounts of decomposing waste can produce more gas, and sewer gas explosions are a known safety hazard.
A broken driveshaft dragging on the ground can cause a car to pole vault end-over-end if it strikes a pothole.
partly busted
A car cannot be made to go end-over-end by striking a pothole with the driveshaft. The back end of the car can be lifted, but the likelihood of an event like this happening is extremely improbable. More likely is that the driveshaft would be forced into the trunk.
I actually know somebody the “pole vault” myth happened to. The back of the car bucked up in the air about 3-4 feet, and then then drive line buckled and the car dropped (it is just pipe folks)
June 23, 2007 at 1:18 AMI witnessed something similar as well, but the culprit was the exhaust pipe.
June 23, 2007 at 2:52 PMThis is where people get stupid about claiming MB is wrong. Those do not qualify as the myth. The car did not flip end over end in either of those scenarios.
June 23, 2007 at 8:52 PMgoing back about 4 years ago i was driving a bus and the prop shaft uj joint gave up and it dug in and lifted the bus up upto about a foot off the ground but on the type of vehicle i was driving the prop was only 2 feet long needless to say i needed new under crackers afterwards luckily i had nobody on board.
July 28, 2007 at 1:38 AMthirty years ago I witnessed a panel van drop its driveshaft from behind the engine, it lifted about 4 feet in the air and pivoted sideways and slammed into a tree.
November 24, 2007 at 11:13 PMI was hoping to at least have a “plausible” for the car pole-vault segment, provided the exact myth could be reproduced under perfect conditions. It certainly would have been entertaining to see…
April 17, 2008 at 10:05 AMBTW, the failed bunny-hop over the radio-flyer was hilarious!
Interestingly as the followers intention take to be this…
July 2, 2008 at 7:20 PM