Report of plane crash actually monster truck's bath time
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Ambulances, law enforcement officers and several emergency responders rushed to a property in southwest Missouri upon receiving a report of a possible plane crash.
Instead, they found a man washing his jet-powered semi — named "Shockwave" — on Monday afternoon.
Owner Neal Darnell's new neighbors called 911 after hearing the loud noise and seeing smoke over their tree line.
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Darnell said he recently raced the vehicle, which can reach 376 miles per hour, on a dirt course so it needed to be washed on Monday, the Springfield News-Leader reported. To wash the 36,000-horsepower truck, Darnell has to use its jet engines, which causes a lot of noise and white smoke.
"We do it from time to time and it will usually generate a couple of 911 calls, but today for some reason it brought out a whole army of emergency vehicles," Darnell said. He also said he doesn't blame the neighbors for being concerned.
A Greene County sheriff's deputy told the newspaper that no citations were issued and that the 911 callers had acted in good faith because they believed someone might be in danger.
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Darnell said he takes Shockwave to truck shows across the country, where it does things like setting stacks of cars on fire or racing fighter planes.