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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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.
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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.
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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.