What’s the one utterly pointless yet oddly compelling personal mode of transportation that everyone gigles at but secretly lusts after?

No, not the Segway.

It’s the Personal Hovercraft!

Not that the personal hovercraft is in any way dumb, it’s mostly the staid-looking guys in tweeds that really increase the dumb quotient.

As a contrast, here is a hovercraft that is most definitely not dumb, in fact, it is decidedly lethal.

Mark Pauline’s Hovercraft for SRL is roughly ten feet long, eight feet wide, and propelled by some white-hot, pain-loud pulse jet engines. Not good for riding. Good for scaring the crap out of unsuspecting hipsters standing next to the barriers at an SRL show, however.

[Thanks Random Good Stuff!]

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