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Turbo-charged pogo stick "is absolutely crazy"
The $300 device can bounce over cars, hop onto walls and perform other acrobatics. Forget Segway, maybe I'll check this out. (Los Angeles Times)
January 24, 2007 | Permalink
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Grrreat. Just what I need. Do these things work for fat people?
Little story: The Boy comes in last night, carrying on about an arm, football, so-and-so bit me, I think it's broken, etc. So I do the mom thing and take him to the ER.
While we're waiting, another mom comes in with a boy about my son's age (11). The kid's got one heely on, the other off. No helmet in sight, no 'helmet hair.'
So I say to The Boy, "Yeah, you better believe it's gonna be a cold day in Hell before you get a pair of those."
But this pogo thing? First, I gotta see it to believe it. Second, this is going to be big business for trauma centers world-wide. Third, there go health insurance premiums, getting jacked up again to pay for the teens and drunks.
Stunt skateboarding was just becoming huge when I was in high school, and the crap we used to get up to make those skater-crash videos look like success stories. Now that the majority of kids today get whatever they want whenever they want it, this pogo stick is going to make me and my skater punk friends look like boring noobs.
/btw-just a sprain
Posted by: Soo | Jan 24, 2007 6:50:32 AM
I can almost feel the breeze generated by a million personal injury lawyers rubbing their hands together with glee.
Posted by: Kghoti | Jan 24, 2007 7:33:32 AM
soo: i work in san francisco, so i got a pair of heelys because my mile walk to bart after work is slightly downhill. i figure i can half the time it takes me to get there, and i figure that this is san francisco, so even if i look like a almost 30 year old fruit on a pair of heelys, i'll at least be blending in with all the other fruits.
cannot use the things. Couldn't even roll around the office. And this is from someone who was skateboarding about 7 years ago. Then i watch 5 year olds do it effortlessly.
i feel old.
Posted by: boynamedsue | Jan 24, 2007 7:54:20 AM
I remember whent those first came out. I hadn't heard about them (the heelys) before I started seeing kids out of the corner of my eye floating by...then I'd turn to look at them and they would be walking again. Freaked me out- thought I was losing my mind.
I love it when the sail right in front of you and sometimes crash right into you...that's the best!
Posted by: Paul Johnson | Jan 24, 2007 11:00:17 AM
Urchins in my neighborhood will occasionally use those skate things ON PARKED CARS.
I hate them.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Jan 24, 2007 11:49:09 AM
Heelys are evil. Kids fly by me and into me in stores all the time. If there is no skating allowed inside, how are heely's an exception? I would not feel bad for someone who was injured on them. I never see a child wearing heelys and a helmet.
Posted by: Korey | Jan 24, 2007 1:23:24 PM
Great. Another toy for evil relatives to give to parents with children. (I will admit to giving my nieces and nephews PlayDoh, finger paints and toys that require large amounts of batteries.)
My sister wanted me to get those Heely things for my niece and nephew for Christmas. I told her I didn't think so...then they would be the kids that everyone hates for rolling around on those damn things in places they shouldn't be.
Posted by: pnwgal | Jan 24, 2007 1:28:17 PM
Playdoh and fingerpaints are "educational," toys requiring large quantities of small batteries are "revenge."
Super-charged pogo sticks and Heelys are future law-suits disguised as a toy. (Don't even get me started on the development issues of Heelys)
Posted by: Soo | Jan 24, 2007 1:49:58 PM
http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/820398.stm
Posted by: SmartAZ | Jan 24, 2007 1:55:10 PM
Thnx for the links, Smart.
Posted by: ProfDon | Jan 26, 2007 8:20:13 AM
