[SGVLUG] [OT] Crazy drifting... deleted?

Solomon K. Chang skevin521 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 22 14:52:42 PST 2008


The Amish Parents Lobby was offended by this video and requested its takedown, for fear
that their children might do reckless activities with the family horse and cart.

For those Amish communities without Internet access, rambunctious teenagers were known
to copy individual of this video to "flipbooks" and pass them around school.  Despite
the fact that numerous flipbooks (and even one laptop!) have been confiscated,
horse-drawn-cart-related casualties have been on the rise tenfold ever since the
release of this video.  More than 3 deaths per week is already a harsh strain on Amish
forensic coroners, who are not allowed to utilize any refrigeration technologies, and
sometimes must make erroneous conclusions as to the cause of death, such as "Death by
maggots" several weeks after the incident.

Hal Fartz-Dust, manager of Chevrolet's Department of Outmoded Technology, has come up
with several possibilities to increase the operational safety of horse-drawn carts,
such as Active Wooden Dowel Suspension, or even Steel-belted Wheel Cladding.  The most
imaginative safety feature thus far is to attach his overbearingly talkative shrew of a
wife as a passenger to the cart - in the event of a collision, a funnel is instantly
clamped over her mouth, which inflates a goat's bladder in front of the driver. 
Fartz-Dust calls this innovation an "air bag".  After the collision, his wife can use
her inherently powerful lungs and incessantly screechy voice to call for help - he
calls this "Onstar".

Fartz-Dust regrets that, as of the current moment, he only has one wife to contribute
to this technology, but he is working of the issue of mass production by converting to Mormonism.


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