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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject: YUH GOTTA BE KIDDIN'!...Right?... |
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| BBC NEWS wrote: | Drink-drive chair up for auction.
Police in the US state of Minnesota are planning to auction off a specially modified and motorised lounge chair whose owner crashed it while drunk.
Dennis LeRoy Anderson, 62, pleaded guilty last Monday to driving the La-Z-Boy while drunk in August last year.
The chair was impounded after he smashed into a parked car as he returned from a bar in Proctor.
The chair comes with a stereo, nitrous oxide booster, parachute and a "Hell yeah it's fast" sticker.
Local police chief Walter Wobig told Agence France-Presse news agency the chair would be posted on eBay next week with no reserve price.
Minnesota police can auction off vehicles seized in drink-drive cases or keep them for official use.
Here's The Throne in question... 
The blue and black chair's other attractions include headlights and a steering wheel in the style of a drag-racer. It can reach up to 20mph (32km/h) with its lawnmower-powered engine.
Mr Anderson, who was not badly injured in the accident, was found to have three times the legal limit when arrested. He said he had drunk eight or nine beers.
Mr Anderson was sentenced to 180 days in jail, suspended pending two years of probation.
The Proctor Journal said the police department had received a number of calls and emails about the chair since the court case.
It quoted one interested party of "racers" as saying they lived outside Minnesota and the chair would "no longer be a menace to your town". |
Link--> Drink-drive chair up for auction.
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R. Mutt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:15 am Post subject: |
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 wow...too much time on his hands yes
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MG Man
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:37 am Post subject: |
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the real deal
http://www.hossflyinc.com/home.html
Small block Chevy V-8 Complete or Kit
Big block Chevy V-8 Kit only
Forward Speed at 5,000 RPM 25 mph
Reverse 5 mph
* Able to tow 2,000 lbs
* Fits in short bed pickup truck (pictured)
* 5 gallon fuel capacity
* Remote start available
* Radiator in rear makes the Hossfly cool and comfortable to ride[/img]
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: |
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^ ^ ^ Cool.  Looks a lot like the one on "Gearz."
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MG Man
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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it's the same one. That's where I learned about it...from the Gearz laffing guy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Yup, thought it looked familiar... but somehow I'll take the Throne (recliner) instead.
The thought of riding the Gearz version, if a head gasket blows (or worse) with my azz and "wedding vegetables" just
6 in. above it... iz kinna worrying! 
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Friendly Neighbourhood Spider Kid.
| Quote: | Meet your friendly neighborhood Spider-Kid! It's the stuff of childhood dreams, right? A boy in Cambridge, England, can climb the walls just like his favorite superhero.
OK, Vacuum-Boy's powers are slightly less subtle than Peter Parker's. But you have to love 13-year-old Hibiki Kono's creativity. He spent five months designing and building his Spider-Man gear from a pair of cheap 1,400-watt vacuums bought at Tesco (like a British Wal-Mart) and some suction pads.
The British press quotes Hibiki saying he used to dress up as Spider-Man when he was younger and he loves all the movies: "It's great to be able to climb walls like him."
Vacuum-backpack whirring, Hibiki picks his way along a brick wall, blue crash pad below. He says he would go higher but his instructors won't let him. As for his mother, she thinks it's brilliant, he says. "But she won't let me use it in my bedroom as she's worried I may pull down the ceiling," the Sun quotes him saying. |
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