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Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington
TacticalJack writes "Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports. It took the Segway riders two and half hours to complete the 7.6 mile endurance test. The team used six batteries, fought off 50 mph winds and battled bitter cold to reach the 6,288-foot mountain summit. All of which begs the question, why not buy a motorbike?"
He asked why. On a segway article. I'm at a loss for words.
What happened to the standard geek, 'How?'
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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... People with too much money AND time.
For how much they cost they should make pancakes, serve them to you in bed, have an included coffee maker, come with several gigs of mad lesbian pr0n, and have a small kitchen sink in-dash
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Personally, I think a slightly more literal interpretation of this headline would be a lot more hilarious/interesting than the real story.
Stoned Segway Rider: "Whoah man....like, I lean and it moves and I don't fall over.....I wish I could do that on my own....."
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"All of which begs the question, why not buy a motorbike?"
No, it begs the question "What the heck is this doing on the front page?" I can see how the Segway was at one point an interesting piece of technology when it first came out, but that was a long time ago. It's less "technology" and more "silly fad." I would sooner expect an article about who is going to win such-and-such "reality TV" show than this on Slashdot. What next, world's larget pet rock collection?
Heck, if anything the Segway is a shining example on exactly why the bottom fell out of the 90's IT economy. And the fact that mention of it still makes headlines in Slashdot demonstrates that people in the 21st century are still just as gullible and short-sighted as they were ten years ago.
I want mine lowered first.
Because only a clown would ride the segway without being snickered at.
Would he have done better time in a monocycle? Or a tiny VW with other twenty seven clowns? Now *those* questions should be answered!
Note: I like clowns. A great deal better than I like mimes, at least.
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The world's first Segway tractor pull. Possibly. Though I can't help but feel that any Segway could be decimated by even the weediest competitor off Robot Wars.