{"id":223,"date":"2006-11-09T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=223"},"modified":"2006-11-09T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T20:54:00","slug":"ever-heard-of-kite-tubing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of \"kite tubing\"?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combine a kite, a modified inner tube, a rope, &amp; a boat, and what do you get?&nbsp; Kite tubing (a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darwin_Awards\">Darwin award<\/a> winner).<\/p>\n<p>The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsstuff.com\/towables\/wego\/index.shtml\">Wego Kite Tube<\/a><\/b> is an insanely bad idea &#8212; it's totally unstable and will flip you right off.&nbsp; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heytone.com\/movies\/wegowipeout3.html\">This video<\/a><\/b> shows a dude falling from 35 feet at 35 mph.&nbsp; Not surprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/CPSCPUB\/PREREL\/prhtml06\/06210.html\">it's been recalled<\/a> due to at least 39 injuries and 2 reported deaths.&nbsp;&nbsp; YouTube has a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=wego+kite+tube&amp;search=Search\">bunch more videos<\/a>.&nbsp; This<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steadywinds.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/28\/kite-tube\/\"> blog entry<\/a> has lots of comments by people who were injured.<br  \/><\/p>\n<p>The <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualityinflatables.com\/st3950.html\">Manta Ray<\/a><\/b> is slightly better.&nbsp; At least it's stable, although as <b><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=E1IPnnttL9k&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\">this video<\/a><\/b> shows it can still be pretty dangerous.&nbsp; It's not been recalled (yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combine a kite, a modified inner tube, a rope, &amp; a boat, and what do you get?&nbsp; Kite tubing (a.k.a. Darwin award winner). The Wego Kite Tube is an insanely bad idea &#8212; it's totally unstable and will flip you right off.&nbsp; This video shows <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=223\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}