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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?"
Wow.
The most inspiring part of this is that they did it on a gay little scooter.
It remains unclear as to why Owen dressed up like a butler for the epic ride up Mount Washington. It surely won't help reduce the ridicule he receives from neighbors and friends. Perhaps he felt it lent a bit of dignity to the affair.
Is it just me or would it take an awful lot more than a butler's outfit to bring some dignity to a ride up a mountain on yuppie-gocarts organized by a retired clown?
"Winds were gusting from all sides and I had to stay down, just like skiing," Dick Norris, 69, a train conductor and fellow rider told the AP.
A train conductor? Good grief. Where are they getting these guys from?
Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports.
Okay, who wants to take a crack at guessing the career of the mysterious third rider? Former jet-setting CEO of a dot-com company who now works as the janitor in an adult bookstore? What about the dude who has to stamp "Inspected by #42" on all those pairs of underwear? Maybe it was Retired Machinist and A.A.P.B.-Certified Astrologer Lloyd Schumner Sr.?
The Register, huh? This is the kind of hard-hitting news I would expect CNN Headline News.
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