Photo of the Day: Chinese anti-terror Segway commandos

From Xinhua via our friends at China Car Times comes the above photo, showing Chinese counter-terrorism forces going through drills as they prepare to crush any
UPDATE: Turns out, Engadget is having a caption contest. (Thanks, seoultrain.)
[Source: Xinhua via China Car Times]












Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
tankd0g 3:42PM (7/03/2008)
Are those genuine Segways? If so, this is all the more amazing.
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cowboy bob 3:35PM (7/03/2008)
Laugh if you want, but wait till you see the all-terrain model with knobbys for the mud.
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geo.stewart 5:03PM (7/03/2008)
paintball wars on the Axiom in the 1st 5 years
K. Ryan Hasse 6:18PM (7/03/2008)
EMP, and they're all useless...(Electro Magnetic Pulse)
If nature gave you short legs...
Safer than a Brilliance Sedan...
Communism not supporting proper military budget?
That dude in Tiananmen Square wouldn't have looked nearly as brave standing in front of one of these...
Randy 7:38PM (7/03/2008)
I'm only laughing because I don't understand how the defense of themselves is anything more than 1 or 2 dimensional at best! They're on something that doesn't tip over yet has a person in an unstable platform in regards to their footing! They can't exactly swing around quickly to protect themselves, bystanders or each other!
The image in my head is a person standing on the back of train where the can shoot backwards, awkwardly to their sides but can't see the arsenal that' about blow them off the track. (i.e. near the front of the train).
I'd rather be on Healeys....
Randy
MKIV 3:35PM (7/03/2008)
Oh look. Toy soldiers... yippppppiiiiieeeeeee
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Ford Wannup 1:55PM (7/04/2008)
well...this is what happened when you "modernize" yourself too much and abandoned your history of glorious kung-fu!!!
This would have been much funnier had it not for the fact that a thoroughly modern economy, intelligent and hardworking people are still forcefully governed by feudal backward communist asses.
Pedro 3:37PM (7/03/2008)
im literally laughing out loud
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Keat 3:41PM (7/03/2008)
bahahaha
Mel. R 3:48PM (7/03/2008)
Me too
pmiddle5 3:38PM (7/03/2008)
Are they knock off Segways or ligit?
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MachinaDC5 4:04PM (7/03/2008)
Best comment ever made on Autoblog.
Tyler Faust 3:39PM (7/03/2008)
Are those real guns?
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Andrew Corcoran 3:40PM (7/03/2008)
Admittedly, this might be out of line, but can't you run faster than a Segway? Be more agile than a Segway?
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Kumail 5:21PM (7/03/2008)
those things can actually go up to 20 mph. i would have one by know but they do cost quite a bit.
tekdemon 12:15AM (7/04/2008)
Your average human can only run for very short bursts at Segway speed, so for any chase that lasts longer than like a minute the Segway will catch up.
Plus the bullets will probably make up for any insane sprinting ability you may have.
To be honest though I don't really see how it makes that much sense to try to fire guns from a Segway. You goof up and the recoil sends you going backwards, lol.
Soccer Mom 3:40PM (7/03/2008)
It's just like at a shooting range - once police officer gets hit, he is knocked on the ground by the impact and then his corpse is bought up to an erected position by the magic of self-balancing Segway.
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LloydChiro 5:33PM (7/03/2008)
Good one, Mom!
MKIV 3:41PM (7/03/2008)
I already developed the countermeasure. God I'm a genius...
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2877482/2/istockphoto_2877482_banana_peal.jpg
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Jorge 7:22PM (7/03/2008)
hahahahahaha, Im peeing in my pants, hahahaha