Man converts boat and SUV into ‘boat car’

Creativity has no limits, you can make something unique from useless stuff or turn something old into a new and versatile creation, just like this Florida driver who has made this unusual vehicle — a ‘boat car.’

The boat car, owned by Pensacola man Gerry Moore, was made from a decommissioned boat and the bottom half of a Ford Expedition SUV. Gerry Moore said he was careful to make sure the vehicle was street legal before taking out on Pensacola roads.

“As long as you have headlights, tail lights, turn signals and horns, you’re good,” he said.

Moore said the boat car’s top is always down, so he keeps a scuba mask and a snorkel on deck in case of rain. “You have to have rain gear in case it rains,” he said.

Woman spins world’s largest hula hoop

Spinning your waist on the spins of hula hoop is a skill not all of us are good at, but for those who can do it, they can be very good at it.

A Las Vegas woman took the whole hula hoop spinning to another level when she recently broke the Guinness World Record for the largest hula hoop spun by a female.

Getti Kehayova, a former circus performer, achieved the Guinness record by spinning a hula hoop measuring 17 feet and 1/4 inches in diameter around her body three times.

“It was quite painful because the hula hoop is pretty heavy, so every time that revolution and spin comes around and it touches your body, it kind of feels like a punch up against your body,” she told Guinness.

Kehayova said she had to wear a protective vest during the attempt to make sure she didn’t break any ribs in pursuit of the record.

Anime-inspired humanoid vehicle

A team of developers at a Japanese company captured the Guinness World Record for largest humanoid vehicle when they constructed a 27-foot, nine-inch tall tribute to anime robots.

The company, Sakakibara Kikai, was awarded a Guinness certificate when the two-legged vehicle, named MONONOFU, was measured at 27-feet and nine-inch tall, 14-feet long and 13-feet and one-inch wide.

Masaaki Nagumo, one of MONONOFU’s developers, said it took about six years to design and build the vehicle, which is modelled after the giant robots piloted by the heroes of various Japanese animation movies and TV shows.

Nagumo said the developers realised at one point that their creation would be too large to fit through the shutter doors of the warehouse where it was assembled.

“It was important to have a cockpit, as well as good balance, such as arms and legs in relation with the body,” he said.

The developer said MONONOFU’s head has to be removed whenever it is taken outside for a test drive.

Say cheese!

For all the cheese lovers out there this news comes out straight from cheesy dreams. A London eatery is drawing in dairy-loving patrons with an unusual gimmick — being the “world’s first conveyor belt cheese restaurant.”

The Pick & Cheese restaurant in Seven Dials Market in Covent Garden offers 25 varieties of cheese sourced from around Britain on a 130-foot conveyor belt that passes by patrons.

The cheese plates are colour-coded by price, and ‘cheese flight’ options are also available. The eatery also offers cheese-themed ‘off-belt dishes’, including a grilled cheese sandwich and pan-fried angloumi.

The eatery purports to be the ‘world’s first conveyor belt cheese restaurant.’

Published in Dawn, Young World, September 21st, 2019