Posted on 06/01/2019 4:49:12 PM PDT by Kevin in California
San Franciscans may soon be able to bounce their way around town, if a Swedish-based mobility company has its way.
Earlier this month, start-up company Cangoroo announced plans to deploy hundreds of pogo sticks in select cities to directly compete with electric scooters as a transportation option.
I don’t think Pogo sticks are dangerous enough.
Trampolines! That’s the way to go!
Bounce...squish...bounce...squish....
One of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard in my life
A fool and his money are soon parted. Pogo sticks? Really?
Good golly.
It’s way easier to beat someone over the head with a pogo stick than an e-scooter.
And it’s easier to walk that pogo stick.
I don’t even want to think about what San Fran residents would do with pogo sticks.
Some lands a pogo stick in a pile of poo it will go a’flying!
Has to be a joke article...I mean pogo sticks on steep hills?
You think your legs feel weird after bouncing on a trampopline ?
HAH !
Try pogoing for an hour or so.
I got pretty good at lunging my way forward and getting the "stop" position mid-air.
And you can cover some ground when y'get good at it.
Now there’s a visual we can all do without.
Bounce, splash.
Tracking it *everywhere*.
What goes ...
Sproing!
Ogle
Ogle
Ogle
Sproing!
Ogle
Ogle
Ogle
That’s right. A peeping Tom on a pogo stick.
Come squish down on a turd...
Makes an interesting spatter pattern, but people nearby get the benefit.
For when it gets extra deep...
Extreme pogo stick jumping: Watch a Guinness World Record being broken in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbp41vWP4o4
A pogo stick seems like a really inefficient way of getting around, but maybe it just seems that way because they look so silly. I’d like to see an energy analysis of pogo-locomotion.
Never gonna happen in lawsuit-happy California.
Friday nights in the ER should be real entertaining.
Bad idea. Lots of potholes. Lots of cracked sidewalks with many obstacles. City pushed residents to plant trees in sidewalks. As the trees grew, the roots raised sidewalk slabs and cracked many, resulting in danger for pedestrians. Not to mention the cut-outs in the slabs for the trees. Then there’s the fact that SF is a city of steep hills - good luck using a pogo stick going up or down hills.
WTF!! Only in San Francisco would this even be possible. I would like to see the first couple of pogo attempts at the city hills.
This would be awesome!!!
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