{"id":10870,"date":"2013-06-15T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2013-06-15T21:36:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T02:36:45","slug":"colin-furze-is-completely-insane-i-really-respect-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10870","title":{"rendered":"Colin Furze is Completely Insane. I Really Respect That."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Colin Furze! He&#8217;s sort of like the Mythbusters or Junkyard Wars if they did things that were dangerously stupid.<\/p>\n<p>10-horsepower motorized baby carriage? Check.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SgZCk7tMOYc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jet-powered bicycle? Check.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bKHz7wOjb9w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kids! Don&#8217;t try this at home! Or, really, anyplace else. Ever. (Unless you work for Survival Research Labs. Then go for it!)<\/p>\n<p>Music by UK punk band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchtothegrave.co.uk\/\">March to the Grave<\/a>, which probably understates the dizzying speed at which Furze will reach that goal. <\/p>\n<p>Here he is riding a home-built, classic Wall of Death in a scooter:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dN14xrnZwXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here he is bailing off the Wall of Death.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0T5UOtMcjIo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Furze has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/colinfurze?feature=watch\">his own YouTube channel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinfurze.com\/\">website<\/a>. He also has an infectious enthusiasm, probably engendered by repeated head trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed you, Colin Furze! I look forward to seeing many more videos from you until your inevitable grisly demise!<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirduniverse.net\/blog\/comments\/jet_bike_--_pulse_engine\/\">Weird Universe<\/a>, where Paul Di Filippo is among those hanging out.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Colin Furze! He&#8217;s sort of like the Mythbusters or Junkyard Wars if they did things that were dangerously stupid. 10-horsepower motorized baby carriage? Check. Jet-powered bicycle? Check. Kids! Don&#8217;t try this at home! Or, really, anyplace else. Ever. (Unless you work for Survival Research Labs. Then go for it!) Music by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10870\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colin Furze is Completely Insane. I Really Respect That.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,12],"tags":[1631,309,1634,1986,1974],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-video","tag-colin-furze","tag-dangerous","tag-stunts","tag-technology","tag-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10914,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions\/10914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}