My boy Dave Woroner sent this little item along to me and I forward it with enthusiasm.
Aside from the interesting blog site for BTDTs from which this issue came, the imagery of Chinese SWAT operators chasing down Olympic terrorists with little scooters tickles my funny bone.
From Breach, Bang, Clear:
That’s right. The rolling thunder that is China’s eeee-light counter-terrorist unit is locked, loaded and good to go…
No word yet on whether the gadget-loving higher-ups of the US military will invest the eleventy zillion dollars necessary to develop their own electric powered individual soldier short-range expedient deployment vehicle (or EPISSED to use the convenient acronym). Even if no one else wants one, we’re confident the Air Force will buy at least a couple so the zipper-suited sun gods don’t get footsore on the way to their planes.
Now, all jokes aside, the Air Force really could use some Segways on their flightlines for maintainers, loaders and crews. The huge fields employed stateside and in Iraq are littered with bicycles, so why not Segways? And I remember talking to the former head of the Marine Corps’ “Chemical, Biological Incident Response Force” a few years ago and he mentioned they were looking into buying Segways to help shuttle their chem-bio suit-laden troops back and forth to infected areas.
But I do always laugh at the beat cops who hum around on these contraptions (a lot of DC, and Capitol Police included) — which any jail-fearing perp could easily outrun…“Wait! Wait! Come back here!”…
– Christian
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Everybody was Segway fighting! Those cats were fast as lightning! :O)
You just know, people have jousting tournaments on their Segways!
“Segway RMP Is Badass, War Machine-Worthy” – Skateboard of the future.
http://gizmodo.com/377498/segway-rmp-is-badass-war-machine+worthy
“A Segway On Steroids”
http://gizmodo.com/392816/yamaha-branded-deux-ex-machina-motorcycle-exoskeleton-a-segway-on-steroids://
“Hot Wheel”
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2003/11/04/cx_dl_1104vow.html
Sure, it’s a three week old photo, but it’s still somewhat humorous.
Funniest thing about the sino-modded scooters — the tiny siren beside the rightside tire.
Easy way to beat a segway, use the stairs. That’ll slow them down.
The US Capitol Police do NOT use Segways
thats freaking funny. we have thoes at the malls by my house. i always laught at the 200+ pound cop on it. i want to push him over so bad. i have a broken ankle and i bet i can hobble faster then those thingss
Bicycles are fine for the AF. Don’t waste my tax dollars on toys.
Why not keep people cycling and fit Sedgeways are for the fat people of the world!
“The huge fields employed stateside and in Iraq are littered with bicycles, so why not Segways?”
because bicycles are sturdier, cheaper, easier to repair and don’t need electrical power? ;)
M
“Go ahead, laugh it up furball.” Remember that a Segway is limited to ten mph–that’s better than most people run. Also, there is a knobby tired version that can keep going across rugged terrain and that a rested person arriving at a staircase has something of an advantage over someone who had to run flat out to get to the base of the stairway. So, go ahead, laugh it up, then assume the position!
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