On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:26:48 -0500, "Ernest Scribbler"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote
The brakes failed - as in F A I L E D - causing me to avoid a massive
collision by jumping a curb and heading into the pucker brush.

Then, to add insult to injury, when I restarted the engine after it
stalled out, a horrendous noise and oil smoke started to pour out from
under the hood.

Some sort of fault in the vacuum operated brake-booster?

You mean there actually is a vacuum brake booster?

What the hell kind of nonsense is that?