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Ohio Man Charged With DUI After Crashing Motorized Bar Stool

03/31/2009 10:56 AM

Please tell me this was one of our CR4'rs being crafty....

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

NEWARK, Ohio — An Ohio man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool, authorities said.

Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, said that when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.

Kile Wygle, 28, was hospitalized for minor injuries. He was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers, police said. Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.

Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.

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03/31/2009 11:44 AM

CERTAINLY NOT!

This is an example of irresponsible behavior!

No CR4 member would dare use red or yellow wire ties.

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04/02/2009 5:23 AM

NEVER! red and yellow is utterly tasteless.

we use red and white (CR4 Logo).

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03/31/2009 11:47 AM

There is no truth in the rumour that is was PlbMak.

Nor is there any truth in the rumour it was Blink.

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03/31/2009 11:50 AM

Of course not. NO beer cooler.

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04/01/2009 3:45 AM

neither was it me. I live in the UAE, remember? I have witnesses I was here when this "driving", "stooling", "lawn-mower hacking", whatever-offense happened.

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03/31/2009 11:55 AM

It could belong to HYdrobug. No, wait it has no hydrogen generator on it.

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03/31/2009 9:17 PM

Can't possibly be Hydrobug, OneCraftyDude or any other HHO scammer here. While what the creator did was stupid and irresponsible, it still requires a modicum of intelligence that no HHO enthusiast possesses to construct one of these. If they did possess the necessary intelligence, they'll realize that the easiest and cheapest way to generate oxyhydrogen without imposing excess loading on the alternator would be to switch their car batteries back to the old unsealed wet cell type batteries and tap off the hydrogen gas produced as a natural byproduct of the recharging process. Ah well, I guess that's what you get for failing science in school.

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03/31/2009 1:49 PM

It won't me!

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03/31/2009 1:56 PM

Good Un's....I'm guessing that pig-iron sticking out from the backside is a wheely-bar?

Hilarious....

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03/31/2009 2:57 PM

If he's not a CR4er, he ought to be. Or he will be. Don't know which is more disturbing.

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03/31/2009 10:50 PM

april fool's day?

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03/31/2009 11:33 PM

Drat! Leave the bar for just a second to answer nature's call... and someone steals my stool...

and then crashes it! The injustice!

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04/01/2009 3:49 AM

aha! now we have a suspect.

take your alibi to court, Blink!

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04/01/2009 12:19 AM

For the record.........

http://www.saltflats.com/barstool.html

http://www.bonnevilleracing.com/barstool-racing.asp

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04/01/2009 4:41 AM

I can't imagine getting back to Blighty on that thing.

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04/01/2009 10:05 AM

A friend of mine sent that to me . . . I wonder if he's trying to tell me to not drive one (which I haven't made yet but will) after I've had a few???

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04/01/2009 10:12 AM

There you go Bill - design, build & ride that thing to the Esso Club......

a guarantee you'll get free beers

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04/01/2009 12:38 PM

From the information that I have been able to discover, he is trying to send you a warning. It appears that red wire ties trigger some kind of anger outburst on the part of law enforcement officers. Red wire ties result in DUI charges. Perhaps a demonstration of the tazer. Who knows what else they have in mind .

Please think about what you are doing. Build the barstool responsibly. And lets be careful out there.

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04/01/2009 2:48 PM

I especially like the "wheelie bar" on the back, which appears to be made from a wrecked skateboard. I think I'll spread mine out a little farther. (Oddly enough, I happened to go into a junk store a few years ago, and they had 8_inline, ball-bearing, skate wheels which blinked multicolored LED's when rolled.)

I'm a particularly careful drunk driver, so don't worry about me. My friends have stopped me from driving a few times, and I have always wondered whether or not it's for my sake or theirs . . . Maybe I'll ask them this afternoon.

BTW, I don't have any red wire ties, so I'll be safe.

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04/01/2009 2:38 PM

Is that thing street legal? No headlights, no bumpers, no turn signals, no seat belts, no air bags.....no wonder he got a ticket!

Happy AFD everybody!

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04/01/2009 5:16 PM

I sent a link to this thread to Mrs. Megawatt. Her comment: "If it took him 15 beers to drive it, I wonder how many he drank to make it"?!

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