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Posted: 10/12/2016 6:25:04 PM EDT
World's steepest street or road honor goes to Dunedin, NZ.
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Posted: 10/13/2016 5:05:14 AM EDT
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OK....
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Posted: 10/19/2016 9:25:30 PM EDT
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Anybody got a spare soap box car lying around? I might also need one of those big foam body armor suits.
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Posted: 10/19/2016 11:35:26 PM EDT
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Can you imagine the speed you could get up to on that hill? Run the wheels right off that sucker!
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Posted: 10/20/2016 5:50:40 AM EDT
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That NZ street has a 35% grade. Canton Ave in Pittsburg is 37% grade.
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Posted: 10/20/2016 3:02:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That NZ street has a 35% grade. Canton Ave in Pittsburg is 37% grade. The 37% part only extends about 21 feet, that's not even the width of a single residential lot, 21 feet doen't make a street. Wikipedia:Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand is the world's steepest residential street, according to the Guinness World Records.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street#cite_note-1][1][/url] It is located in the residential suburb of North East Valley, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) northeast of Dunedin's city centre.Fox News:1. |
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Posted: 10/21/2016 3:29:08 AM EDT
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Anybody got a spare soap box car lying around? I might also need one of those big foam body armor suits. You could just have a few drinks, and use a wheelie bin.
Two Otago University students used a wheelie bin "as a type of sledge" on their tragic ride down a Dunedin hillside street that killed one of them and seriously injured the other early today. (July 2001) The pair were in the wheelie bin when it crashed into a parked trailer near the bottom of Baldwin St - New Zealand's steepest street - about 2.36 am. Killed instantly was Ana Louise North, 19, a second year physical education student at the university, who originally came from Blenheim. Her friend, Lindsay Peter Roxburgh, 19, of Pukekohe, who was also a student at the university, received serious head injuries and underwent surgery today. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=174533 |
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Posted: 10/21/2016 1:59:33 PM EDT
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Darwin Award nominees!
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