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Pedal schoolbus   (+4)  [vote for, against]
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Childhood obesity is getting worse in the US. Install pedals in school buses. The engine would remain, but wouldn't be running when full of kids. For example the ride home...
-- evilpenguin, Jun 20 2012

Kind of baked. http://islabikes.co...th24-customise.html
[pocmloc, Jun 20 2012]

Cycle_20Bus [marked-for-deletion] redundant [hippo, Jun 20 2012]

You're going to need a bigger bus!
-- xenzag, Jun 20 2012


Didn't "The Flintstones" do this, but without the pedals?
-- jurist, Jun 20 2012


I can just imagine the obese parents of these kids, bleating to an opportunistic TV news reporter how their precious little porker was left sitting on a stationary bus overnight, because all of the kids were too lazy to pedal home.
-- UnaBubba, Jun 20 2012


[UnaBubba] we Australians can't really talk, our obesity rates (for adults anyway) aren't that much better than America's.
-- erenjay, Jun 20 2012


I know. I blame the parents. They're the ones who drive their kids to MacDonald's.
-- UnaBubba, Jun 20 2012



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