Hey all...
For some reason...call me twisted...whatever...I find this article to be rather amusing...wait...no....Hilarious. A Darwin Award should have been handed out if it wasn't. It's from a recent article in my local newspaper...regarding car stereo.
Article Launched: 08/28/2006 12:00:00 AM PDT
Driving legends unfold
Michelle Groh-Gordy, Correspondent
Can your lungs collapse if you crank up the bass on your car stereo? Did the wife of singer James Brown really try to get out of a traffic citation by claiming she had diplomatic immunity because her husband had been given the honorary title "Ambassador of Soul"? Can putting a banana in a vehicle's tailpipe cause it to stall?
These are just a few of the titillating urban driving legends that have been repeated so many times and appear to be so outrageous that you can't help but wonder whether they're true.
Can your lungs collapse if you crank up the bass on your car stereo?
If breathing is high on your priority list, then you better keep your car stereo turned down. According to a 2004 report in the medical journal Thorax, four young men died when their lungs collapsed due to the booming bass from extraordinarily loud music.
One of the men had customized his car with a 1,000-watt sound system. According to the report, the quartet's lungs ruptured when thundering bass caused their lungs to vibrate at the same frequency as the music. Just a suggestion: Someone might want to shoot a memo about this off to MTV's "Pimp My Ride."