Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair 338
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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German police have confiscated the world's fastest office chair and arrested its 17-year-old inventors.
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FAIL!
The AP story does not contain the word "arrested" anywhere, it only says that the device was confiscated and the individuals were being investigated.
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I found a workable solution. I went to my user preferences -> Index -> sections and set the Idle section to display only headlines.
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There were some really good ones I've read, but they were on government run sites and have been taken down. Here are some articles that indirectly support what I'm saying.
http://www.motorists.org/speedlimits/ [motorists.org]
http://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras/red-light-cameras-increase-accidents-5-studies-that-prove-it/ [motorists.org]
http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html [ibiblio.org]
Enjoy.
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> I don't see much difference.
In Germany every motorized vehicle driven on public roads needs to pass a regular safety test*1 , has to have vehicle insurance and you'll need the right driving license.
Everything else is /very/ illegal.
The definition of "public roads" includes publicly assessible parking lots.
That's a set of laws that really makes me feel safer.
*1) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technischer_Ueberwachungsverein&oldid=230576541 [wikipedia.org]
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http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/nachrichten/indexhessen34938.jsp?rubrik=36098&key=standard_document_35004490&lugal=1&ibp=0
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There' s a picture on this web site [express.de], ie. this one [express.de].
It's somewhat disappointing since it's more realistic to say they built a motorised platform, and stuck an office chair on it.
There is also a side-note [express.de] describing the first German championship in office chair running, which took place in April. The paper also provide a set of increasingly disturbing images of hulking male participants dressed in various pink fluffy bunny type outfits draped in a variety of poses across office chairs... Apparently the motorised approach was not permitted during the championship, although entrants were allowed to customise their chairs with handlebars.