6/16/2005: Office Chair World Championship
 

http://cellar.org/2005/Chair-Race.jpg

Another xoB/WaPo image. Here was have a guy racing in the 200-meter course in the first Office Chair World Championships. No word on who won or what the winning times were.

What about a body count?

I can forsee those casters breaking off on landing, causing the chair to pivot forward, and grinding his fingers down to little stumps.

Where's that picture?? :)

then he has to pick up his teeth with said bloody little stumps.

Oh on, these are specialy constructed highspeed racing chair high tech in everyway. Their casters and wheels are constructed from some to the most high-tech high-impact plastic around, able to withstand speed in excess to 5 MPH!!! And they are much more safer than the typical pressed plastic cafeteria chair you find in most modern office buildings. Each chair is insured it's safety requirements by being examined by inpector No. 39 (or inspector No. 42 depending on if inspector No. 39 has a doctors appointment that day). And finally, each chairs powered by an alcohol buring engine (acutally 24 ounces of alchohol - riders choice of brand and type).

I thought I donated that chair to Goodwill..........
Hope the "Jackass" guys don't see this.
If they haven't already.

WTH-- the background is motion blurred and the guy on the chair is in focus. Another chair was flying down the street, right next to him, this one holding a guy with a camera. . .

focus
 

The cameraman may just be pivoting as the rider (driver?) goes by.

Technically, those chairs swivel, not pivot.

.....at any rate it takes a lot of skill to get a shot like that, the subject almost totally in focus. I wonder what the yellow blur behind him is.
hehehe........
Dude looks like he's about to have an organism......

hay bale

I'll buy that. Odd placement, tho.

Technically it's straw, not hay. :lol:

Noted. I will return to my chair in the corner now, sir.

:dunce:

Aw there there now. Don't take it so hard. Hey, you were right about the swivel. :D