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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:Open post to the mod who by AndGodSed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I second your last sentence.

    Daring is a dying art. Someone - I forget who - said "Youth is wasted on the young."

    Today I am thinking it is more of "youthfulness is suppressed in the young."

    I want my kids to do things like this one day, and guide them rather than stop them completely.

    --

    Seven Days with Ubuntu Unity

  2. Re:Segway Competitor by geeknado · · Score: 4, Interesting

    See, this is what /really/ should've been visualized in the Minority Report movie...Millions of office workers rolling to work in their powered office chairs, whisked up buildings and directly to their desks to toil...Silently sliding up to the bar at the end of the day...Ugh. I think I've just visualized the end of legs.

  3. Re:So much for the seeds of .... by Bryansix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not quite there. Speed law is not about safety I will give you that. However the regulations that deal with "RIGHT of WAY" are VERY important. It's not that they just make things predictable; they stop people from asserting a right of way that they should not be asserting. Eventually you will have a merge even in a roundabout. The law says that the traffic already going that way has the right of way and the merging traffic needs to YIELD. If they did not need to yield then both cars would assume the right of way and crash into each other.

    Another rule that is important is people going straight on a street and people turning right. The right turn people have to come to a stop and yield the right of way. If they didn't do that there would be side impact traffic collisions all the time.

  4. Re:Picture by jadin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why couldn't the editors use the actual vehicle? It actually looks pretty cool, the sensational jet engine photo just lowers the overall nerd factor. It also makes the story far more debatable, any chair with flames out the back will obviously be stopped by police in short order, but the engineered one you linked, much less likely.

    Oh, right. This is idle.