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Have You Seen This Segway?
Kringle writes "An April 28th theft of a Segway from a home in Kent, Washington appears to be the first of its kind. The Smoking Gun has a copy of the police report. The good news is that the thief didn't get the keys and is lugging around a big paperweight. No word yet from the Grand Theft Auto team about including a Segway in their next game release."
"Theres no way they can hot wire it."
BMW used to say that too. Thieves are better at these things than most people think they are.
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"He's asking anyone who sees the Segway or knows where it might be to call Kent police at 911."
911? IIRC, that's that newfangled emergency number. You know, for emergencies. Like heart attacks and SARS. Not missing pieces of metal and plastic.
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Useless?? Yeah right.. then again, not all of us are smart enough to "Export" this kinda stuff. :-) I'm sure theirs pleanty of other countries where the said serial numbers are useless. :-)
Can all fish swim?
One of the first things they ask you when you dial 911 is if it is an emergancy. They are simply a dispatch service. You can actually use them to call your local police department to ask about parking tickets (though it is nicer to look in your phone book instead).
Hey, that's one is easy: A Microsoft Bob CD will have great value in the future, in the museum of abandoned interfaces. It will worth milions.
Honda Accords can be stripped. Try fencing Segway parts.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Since it's a segway story and I ranted recently on these things I'll do it again here.
First off if you are considering buying one of these things, goto your cabinet, find one of those things they call a pot, hit yourself on the head.
Secondly, realize that you can do all that a Segway can do WITH A BIKE!!!! All that and you get EXERCISE. Now I understand that the segway is a perfect personification of the Lazy Fat American Dream, but really exercise is gooooood.
A bike also weighs less, costs less, and can go down stairs, on grass and dirt.
Don't get me wrong the tech is pretty cool, but it's evil I'm sure the thief will return it with a note "Sorry it looked awfully fancy for a paperweight, I thought it might actually have been useful."
-- taking over the world, we are.
How about finally somebody bought one of those ridiculous pieces of junk?
I think it's interesting technologically, but are Americans so lazy that they can't walk anymore?
In my neighborhood, we have locking communal mailboxes, instead of the ones next to the driveway. Mine is about 200 feet away, and I've seen my neighbors drive to the mailbox, then drive home. When you factor in starting the car, changing gear, etc. it's not any faster. They're just too lazy to walk.
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Accords (and Camry's, Sentra's, Corolla's, etc.) are stolen and stripped for their parts. Someone told me that an Acura Integra, after selling each stripped part separately, can fetch slightly under $80,000 USD.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
Can you explain why a reference to the first amendment is enshrined in your sig, but you seem to believe that people are justified in violating property rights when they get annoyed with another's possessions?
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