Bert and JMike, Yes, Alan Damron did a version of the suicide attempt. What amazes me is that this appears as the winner or the 1998 or 1999 Darwin Award. Since the song precedes the award by several years, it leads me to believe the story is apocrophyl (sp?). Which leads me to believe that perhaps all of the Darwin Award stories are apocrophyl, too bad. I have tried a couple of times to write a song about the guy with the JATO unit, but I have never been able to complete one.

Roger in Baltimore