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Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair

Posted by samzenpus on from the crazyboy dept.

German police have confiscated the world's fastest office chair and arrested its 17-year-old inventors. The duo added a lawnmower engine, brakes and a metal frame to the office chair and were reported to be driving it all over the streets of Gross-Zimmern. Police did not comment on the chair's handling or acceleration but I look forward to it being profiled on Top Gear.

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  1. Re:So much for the seeds of .... by janeuner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    God forbid that a bunch of kids make something on their own. They might, you know, invent something useful.

  2. Re:So much for the seeds of .... by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Good engineering accommodates the errors and omissions of users. Bad engineering relies on laws and conventions to overcome inherent systemic flaws. Laws and conventions are, therefore, indicative of bad engineering."

    Good engineering accommodates errors and omissions INSOFAR as it is practical/cost effective. Your solutions all require significantly more capital investment than the ones in existence now.

    There is also a similar hazard in that relying on engineering to make something idiot proof allows the idiots to have a false sense of security, inevitably leading them to strive to newer, previously unimaginable heights of stupidity that the engineers hadn't even thought possible.

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  3. Re:How I yearn for the days by Otter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'd most likely have died in infancy from improperly pasteurized milk. Pretty freaking cool, huh?

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