blog.makezine.com - 8/19/2008
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German police have confiscated what may be the world's fastest office chair. Police say officers happened on the contraption - the work of two inventive 17-year-olds - in the western town of Gross-Zimmern on Saturday. The pair had added a lawnmower engine, bicycle brakes and a metal frame to the revolving chair - making into a go-kart-like vehicle.
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German teens unfairly busted for being awesome
CrunchGear —
... claimed that they were just testing the chair out on a small stretch of road but townspeople said that the no-good whippersnappers had been driving it all over town. Now the kids are in hot water for not having insurance or registration and driving without a license. Let ‘em go! We’ll all have a good laugh!
Engineers, a question. How fast could a lawnmower engine conceivably propel a run-of-the-mill swiveling office chair? Fast? Really fast? Really, really fast?
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