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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/08/vet...rss_topstories

what an excellent idea.


heres a link to the website for the group behind this

http://www.draft.org/draft3/

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lotsofmagnets

so they found a use for the segway / orange / whatever. wonder if they´ve lived up to they hype. i think i spent a good year or 2 believing those things didn´t even exist.

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Lasereth

Segway would have changed the world if they didn't launch them at $8,000 a pop. They're still amazing technology but they had their chance to blow the world away with it but failed based on the logic of buying am $8,000 scooter.

RetroGunslinger

I never thought there was a way to make the Segway not look stupid, but someone finally did it.

As a side note, the principal at our school last year rode one of these everywhere, and even made it upstairs (only to end up like a cat stuck in a tree). Lazy bastard, but likable. Then this year, the security guy (not sure what his actual job is, if he has one, since he's not a resource officer) for our school, who acts like a complete asshole to the nicest students, inherited that little motherfucker, and just speeds down the halls with it. It would make my life if I could just throw a book in his path and... oooh yeah....

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genuinegirly

Now that is nifty.

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ngdawg

That is a great idea and finally, a truly practical reason for Segways.

Tully Mars

Odd to see this thread tonight. I never seen before this afternoon. In the Liverpool Mall in Merida Mexico a security guard slowly pass me on one.

In regards to the OP... I say we give wounded vets whatever they freaking need to make life livable.

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uncle phil

i think it's a great idea but as soon as the government gets involved, they'll fuck it up worse than a wet dream...

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