Inventor fuels car with dead cats.
Posted: 14 September 2005 12:17 PM   [ Ignore ]
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The name says it all.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/14/germany.catfuel.reut/index.html

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Posted: 14 September 2005 02:31 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Thank GOD….now I can have a reason to keep collecting dead cats…

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Posted: 14 September 2005 10:37 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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You saw this story before I did. But it turned out it was a hoax (kind of). Just put it on my blog.

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Posted: 15 September 2005 07:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Damnit, CNN backtracked by changing their article.  Originally it was stated that he had traveled over 106,000 miles using only dead cats. 

Okay, Babelfish’s translation loosely seems to back up his story.  It looks like Bild simply added their own suppositions about dead cats.  He never seems to mention them.  Of course, having now looked at Bild I see that they’re a tabloid so this kind of embellishment doesn’t surprise me.

My favorite translated quote :

The cat strength can be computed theoretically accurately: From an attained full growth 13-Pfund-Kater 2.5 litres sprit could develop, four Miezen became for 100 kilometers to be enough, for a tank filling 20 dead cats would be necessary

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Posted: 15 September 2005 07:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Alex has got it on his blog.

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Posted: 15 September 2005 08:12 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Hence his comment about putting it on his blog?

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Posted: 15 September 2005 11:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Probaby,probably….


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