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Gutter Surfing
Super-buoyant, rail-thin boards for gutter surfing in the rain | |
Jimmy threw down his gutter board on the corner of the block and jumped on. Rain bubbles popped by the hundreds in his wake, and he readied himself for the upcoming sewer drain. Closer...closer...*jump,* and he would have almost stuck the landing if it weren't for the present a dog had left in a very
inconvienent spot.
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so whats this like some sort of skim board? You are going
to need pretty wide gutters to do this, unless your skim
boarding in flooded gutter in wich case an old bodyboard
works pretty well. How would you ollie this thing over
the drain? |
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it's rail-thin, about as thin as a ski, but shorter. And it's ultralight. I'm depended on the invention of an ultralight material especially for this. |
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Don't people, well, kids keep drowning in storm drains? How would you avoid the law suit liability? |
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yay - use vacuum-filled carbon buckyballs for playing in the gutters. |
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Don't worry doctor its not intended as sporting equipment - its a high-tech dado rail - anyone misusing it is responsible for their own actions and voids the warranty. |
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This is extreme sports, here. Lawsuits are merely fuel for the ongoing fight against The Man. |
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Is this board supposed to float the weight of a full-sized human? |
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Only the steam-powered version... |
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I was thinking along those lines k_sra, I kept thinking of pigeons hopping on and off. |
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Pigeons gutter surfing? Aw, cute! |
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envisioning 'gutter-surfer' rising to instant pop-culture catchphrase-ism, only to crash to the bottom rung 3 months later. |
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I don't know what "gutter" means :( |
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(I know, I know!! I'm too lazy to look it up, ok?) |
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gutter = side of road where the rain leaks away with all the litter left by louts. |
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You have to have a fair amount of speed to keep going, and a lot of water flowing through the gutter. It can only be played in cities where it rains a lot. Like, say, Seattle. |
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