Daredevil smashes record with 166-foot semi-truck jump, then perfectly parallel parks

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Brian Koerber
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There are few things more American than jumping a semi-truck in front of a crowd of cheerful onlookers.

Gregg Godfrey shattered the world record on Friday for the longest semi-truck jump -- a whopping 166 feet in the air -- at Evel Knievel Days, an extreme sports festival in Butte, Montana.

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Godfrey set a record in 2008 with a 50-foot jump, which was then broken in 2014 with a jump of 83 feet and 7 inches. (That jump had an attached trailer.)

Although the jump is impressive enough, Godfrey ended his stunt with the perfect parallel parking job.

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