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Have you seen those spinning rims that make a vehicle look like it's still moving when it has come to a stop? Ok, picture a set of those, but no chrome. Every surface would be painted flat black, except for a single spoke, so that it is hard to see where the tire stops and the rim starts. Now
imagine that the rim is unbalanced by the weight of a chrome foot/hoof/talon, what have you, attached to the bottom of the chrome spoke. It would only be free to swing for the bottom 160 or so, degrees of the full circle with a slider to make the foot track in a straight line from the farthest point back of the arc to the farthest forward point.
Ok, now picture these on that next logging truck beside you.
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Would they not flail in a spastic and dangerous manner when the truck was underway? |
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Yes they would and they would shake the truck to pieces. |
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Honestly though, they wouldn't be overbalanced by much and shouldn't effect a vehicle any more than, say a chain swinging freely on the side of a truck. Unless of course all of the feet were to swing in the same direction at the same time then they may topple a poorly constructed bridge or two but that just means that they probably needed replacing anyway. |
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This is perfectly feasible and will look fantastic (and suitably silly). |
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This sounds like not much more than an unbalanced "spinner" which will just rock back and forth like the axle-mounted odometers seen on so many trailers, only painted in such a way as to look like a walking foot. |
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Useless, pointless, easily bakable. I love it. [+] |
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<picks up shard of smashed indicator glass> "Ah, I can see from this that a white Transit has passed this way recently." |
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