Teens were bored so they built a backyard roller coaster

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/24/teens-were-bored-so-they-built.html

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Hells yeah, chalk one up for science!

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Yeah for smart kids!

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And for understanding parents!

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And for the school board for acknowledging rather than suspending them.

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BREAKING: AG Jeff Sessions opens probe into “Teen Roller Coastering.”

“Not good people. Taking jobs from hard working carnies. Probably take girls on those things and grabs them.”

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Hey! Why can’t I just say, “WANT!!!”?

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Where’s Perry?

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Amended that for you! :wink:

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Might as well add art in there if you want to be pedantic.

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Nice!
Those boys are going places.

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But, at the same time, right back to where they started.

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i wanted to see the entire run. : (

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It looks like the entire run took about 30 seconds. When I was younger, some friends had something like this, but it was not homebuilt, it was more like a commercially available slide, with a cart and tubular rails instead of metal sheet.

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Ask if you can go for a ride!
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My brothers and I built our own Tower of Doom.

An open second-story window in my brother’s bedroom, and a bean-bag chair in the front yard.

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Bah, beaten to the Phineas and Ferb reference!

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They might want to get in touch with this guy in Italy, who can upgrade that wooden coaster to metal.

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Gravity eh… you’re not falling, the ground is just rushing up to meet you.

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