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Build Your Own Roller Coaster

Usquebaugh submitted this link to a guy who built his own roller coaster. The guy builds grain elevators for a living and - let me take a wild, city-slicker guess - they probably use some sort of rail system for transporting grain, so.... Update: 03/14 14:29 GMT by M : We overran the bandwidth limit on his webpage - sorry buddy! From the comments below I see a mirror and another mirror.

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  1. Well, looking at the pictures... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging by the rust on that thing, I'd say this guy's life expectancy is somewhere around (now + 4 rides).

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  2. How long before ... by Augusto · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... this guy wins a Darwin Award ?

    What a way to go though ...

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  3. Looks Cool! by Victa · · Score: 4, Funny

    What!!! Have you guys NO sense of adventure??? You have to die sometime... May as well have fun doing it...

  4. I slashdotted his site. by bartyboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw page 1.

    I saw page 2.

    I clicked on the link to page 3 and got this:

    This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade". Thank you, 0catch.com

  5. Over his limit by moniker_21 · · Score: 5, Funny
    This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

    And I was SURE that his roller coaster was going to be the first thing to go down. Oh well.
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    I posted to /. and all I got was this stupid sig
  6. You're going to trust this guy? (joke) by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 5, Funny

    This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

    I can just see it now:

    "You've currently run out of track for this roller coaster. You may purchase new track by screaming bloody murder at the top of your lungs."

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    Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...

  7. DOS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Denial Of Service and/or Displayed On Slashdot?

  8. Slashdot is a floating party of doom by WankersRevenge · · Score: 5, Funny

    This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

    I don't know what Hitchhiker book Douglas Adams wrote it in - but there was this floating party that literally floated above a planet, causing all sorts of havoc. Whenever it needs supplies, the party would raid some poor country, take all their booze, then float away.

    Slashdot is so like that. Its a floating party that hijacks poor websites, kills them, then moves on to other unsuspecting fools

    To that - I can only say -

    Drinks on the house ;)

  9. Re:Pneumatic Blowlines by dillon_rinker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be sure to tune in next week for the next installment of Redneck Geek Holy Wars: smoking vs. chew

  10. Thank you by Raven_Rider · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Slashdot; I'd like to say thank you to everyone who contributed to helping me purchase more bandwidth for my site. That bandwidth (5 Gigs) has been all used up so the site will be down until the hubub dies down unless someone else feels like contributing. There are a couple of mirrors up and I sent off a copy of the pages to another person to create a better mirror with all of the pictures. Hopefuly that will be up later so you all can see the coaster. I am flattered with all the attention and I'm over my frustration of last night when the site initially went down. Like many people online my site is an extension of myself and with it down it's like a part of me is not functioning but I'm learning to deal with it. I'll make sure the new mirror is up later tonight for the Blue Flash pictures and I'll have a link posted to it as soon as it's up. I'm going to be speaking to John (the coaster builder) tonight and I'll let him know what everyone thinks. Please check out the pictures at the mirrors and if you are interested in coasters please revisit my site (www.negative-g.net) sometime in the future but not all at once. Thanks Paul B. Drabek Raven_Rider@negative-g.net