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Jet-Powered Wheelchair

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-they're-off! dept.

gpmcdermott writes "What does a man with too much time, a jet engine, and his mother-in-law's wheelchair, do? The BBC is reporting on the results on the Beeb."

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  1. What's he doing? by romper · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law.

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    1. Re:What's he doing? by Nos. · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know I've considered attaching a jet engine to my mother in law before. Of course she's not in a wheel chair, but moving her a few hundred miles away quickly would be a desireable outcome!

    2. Re:What's he doing? by Ignignot · · Score: 4, Funny

      Like how that old hag in gremlins got shot out of her house on the sup'd up stair climber?

      That movie always warms the cockles of my tiny heart.

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    3. Re:What's he doing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      More like Stephen Hawking in this Simpsons episode

    4. Re:What's he doing? by jaaron · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law

      Oh, and here I was thinking he was shooting for a Darwin Award.

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    5. Re:What's he doing? by dcphoenix · · Score: 3, Funny

      But, wouldn't that be a waste of a perfectly good jet engine? Well, that is unless you actually went those few hundred miles to recover it.......

    6. Re:What's he doing? by JustAnotherReader · · Score: 3, Funny
      I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law

      So this guy is sitting in his living room and it's raining cats and dogs outside. The wind's howling and it's just pouring. There's a knock at the door so he gets up to answer it. He opens the door and his mother in law is standing there. The man says: "Oh my gosh. Don't just stand there in the rain getting soaking wet. Go Home! " Thanks. I'm here all week. Please tip your wait staff.

  2. What will Stephen Hawking think of next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    First it's pondering the universe, then it's playing cards with Data, and now... now it's a rocket powered wheel chair! That man is a god.

    1. Re:What will Stephen Hawking think of next? by ScottGant · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't forget, in the future Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols and Gary Gygax make up "The Vice Presidential Action Rangers" whose job is to protect the space/time continuum!

      I miss Futurama

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  3. Peering into my crystal ball... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I'm not claiming to be psychic but my gut feeling is that Giuseppe Cannella's last words will be "Hey, watch this!"

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    1. Re:Peering into my crystal ball... by wiredbuddy · · Score: 1, Funny

      OR... "Here... hold my beer"

  4. Candidate for improvement? by VinceWuzHere · · Score: 4, Funny
    What, no skid lid? (see photo in story)... Hmmm... Why do I suspect that, after many attempts, this fellow will be featured here?

    For his next projects, Giuseppe will be working on Jet-Powered Segways, aptly to be named JetWays.

  5. Wtf? by SirStanley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did anyone else notice this guy NOT WEARING a helmet?

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    1. Re:Wtf? by MikeMacK · · Score: 5, Funny

      Really, if he's not careful he's going to wind up in a wheelchair.

    2. Re:Wtf? by FCAdcock · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wearing a helmet on a jet powered wheelchair would be like giving someone a kite to jump out of a plane with.

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    3. Re:Wtf? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Typical liberal.

      How exactly does HIS failure to wear a helmet affect YOU?

      I guess under your socialist heathcare system YOU'LL be forced to pay for HIS medical expenses.

    4. Re:Wtf? by Class+Act+Dynamo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Upon seeing him in a wheelchair, one asks, "What happened to you?"
      His answer, "Wheelchair accident"
      I could see wheelchair companies selling these to drum up "regular" wheelchair business. Sort of like the funeral home operator that gives away free donuts every day.

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  6. Duckman.... by mark0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tell me that first picture doesn't make you think of Duckman's grandma-in-law.

  7. Ha ha! by east+coast · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Christoper Reeves!

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    1. Re:Ha ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whats the opposite of Christoper Reeves?

      Christopher Walken.

  8. Going to Hell faster now by kippy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does Stephen Hawking know about this yet?

    This is probably a step down frmo his exeskeleton suit though...

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    1. Re:Going to Hell faster now by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does Stephen Hawking know about this yet?

      This is probably a step down frmo his exeskeleton suit though...

      Now that was really below the belt.

  9. The corvette of wheelchairs by wackysootroom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, now I can run that bigshot down the hall from me at the seniors home with the Racsal right out of the hallway.

    I'm fact, I'll be the first one to the bingo table!

  10. Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you had a mother-in-law and a jet engine, what else would you do?

  11. That's it! by zymurgyboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the ADA crowd starts getting these en masse, then we should get some of those primo parking spaces back. It's only fair.

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  12. Re:It can't get any simpler- by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is old news. Doesn't anyone watch the AOL commercials? They've already attached the AOL optimizer to a wheelchair, a motorcycle, and a hot rod! The hot rod must have hit 88.8 miles per hour (and 1.21 JIGGAWATTS of electricity!) because it went back in time! ;-)

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  13. My advice: by Short+Circuit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Innovate while you can. Just stay away from anything that'll get you targeted as a terrorist.

    Oh, wait...I just pictured the elderly rushing road blocks. Too late...

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  14. Jet ENgines by drewzhrodague · · Score: 1, Funny

    Looking arround, I found jet engines made from a turbo assembly from a car. I wonder if it's possible to use something like that to power a tesla coil...

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  15. Re:Spelling! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Thou shalt not complain about other people's grammar... lest thou should fail to capitalise the proper noun "Jesus".

  16. he just has a jet engine laying around by FCAdcock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I'm just behind on my new geek toys, but who the heck just has jet engines laying around their house?

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  17. It's actually a subterfuge by CdBee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cannella is actually preparing for the X-Prize, this is just a land-based test launch.

    Team Cannella's orbiter vehicle will have radiation shields made of old kettles.

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  18. I know, I know by Todd+Fisher · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does a man with too much time, a jet engine, and his mother-in-law's wheelchair, do?
    He probably wathces a lot of porn.

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  19. One word: by TrentL · · Score: 4, Funny

    TIMMY!

  20. Call Guinness (the book, not beer) by MikeMacK · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, what is the land speed wheelchair record?

  21. Really, this isn't a stupid as it appears by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, depending on where the engine is mounted relative to the center of mass of the chair/dude combo, it might not be all that dangerous. After all, if the direction of the jet is exactly lined up with the centor of mass, and the rider never moves even at all, why, it could even hit a small bump without becoming airbor...

    On second thought, this is as stupid as it appears.

    1. Re:Really, this isn't a stupid as it appears by T-Kir · · Score: 2, Funny

      Plus for added stupidity, the mother-in-law also has Parkinsons disease, so I can't imagine her keeping it in a straight line!

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  22. How does he get it to stop? by Klowner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does he just throw his mother-in-law overboard with some sort of tether?

    Was that socially inappropriate?

  23. Wait a minute, I know who this is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't that the same guy who was found hiding in the cargo bay of the Columbia space shuttle just minutes before it was launched for the last time?

    That guy does not want to drive the jet propelled wheelchair, he wants to fly it into outer space. If you ask me he's already out there.

  24. -1 cruel by drsquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    He wouldn't have felt it then...

  25. Next Stop... by petepac · · Score: 5, Funny

    The AARP Winter Nationals!

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  26. Timmah! by DigitalCrackPipe · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if this is anything like SouthPark will this create a wormhole and send the occupant back to the age of dinosaurs?

  27. Sorry, This guy wins by El_Smack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jet. Powered. Beer. Cooler.

    Best quote: " I knew from some long forgotten physics lecture that when a liquid expands into a gas it will draw heat from its surroundings. And I happened to have a source of a suitable liquid right in my shed in the form of a LPG cylinder (liquid petroleum gas). What I needed was a way to use up a lot of fuel very, very quickly. What I needed was a jet engine! "

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    1. Re:Sorry, This guy wins by axis-techno-geek · · Score: 2, Funny
      Call me crazy but I just put a refrigerator in my "shed", not nearly the wow factor, but more economical, and at 19 cubit feet, can hold lots of beer.

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  28. I for one, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    welcome our new jet powered granny overlords.

    1. Re:I for one, by Cornelius+Chesterfie · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "I for one welcome our new X overlords". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what Kent says on the show right? Isn't it? I for one welcome our new insect overlords. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to obtain a +5 comment in this situation. God what a clever, smart guy you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Soviet Russia jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!

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  29. Re:Helmets are expensive by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 5, Funny

    How did a helmet help you there? If you hadn't been wearing a helmet you would have avoided the hospital bill and the recovery time.

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  30. Re:Helmets are expensive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I was wearing a helmet (damn now its all scratched up), but that was all.

    A safety-minded streaker.