Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash 200
euphemistic writes "An Austrian man who became the first person outside the US to wear thought-powered 'bionic' arms has died from injuries sustained in a car crash ... Kandlbauer, who would have turned 23 next month, sustained severe head injuries when the specially modified car he was driving swerved off the road in the south east of Austria and crashed into a tree on October 19. The cause of the accident is not yet known, particularly whether the neurally-controlled arm-prostheses he had been fitted with might have played a role."
I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Austrian Cyborgs? (Score:5, Funny)
Where have I heard this story before...
If the arm was the cause? (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if the arm turned blue when it crashed?
Olympic Games deja vu (Score:5, Funny)
Austrian Wildlife to Blame (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn't at least a part of you want to know... (Score:5, Funny)
...if they can rebuild him?
Re:Doesn't at least a part of you want to know... (Score:1, Funny)
Don't you mean, rebuild him... again?
Re:I hadn't heard about these. (Score:5, Funny)
OR he could have been passing some hot chicks in scant outfits and thought, I need to go talk to them forgetting he was driving down the road.
OR....seeing the hot chicks, he thought of doing something else with that bionic arm of his on another part of his body and due to a glitch in the message queue for his arm, the arm immediately started doing what he wanted to do on his extremity - the hand made a fist and the arm started jerking up and down very rapidly on the steering wheel causing him to lose control of the vehicle.
Re:Austrian? (Score:3, Funny)
Too soon?
Put shrimp on the barbie! (Score:2, Funny)
Kandlbauer crashed after swerving to avoid hitting a koala or possibly a strudel.
Re:Austrian Wildlife to Blame (Score:3, Funny)
Recent updates to the story via the Slashdot tagging system suggest that he may have swerved to avoid a Kangaroo, a common cause of accidents in South Eastern Austria.
What was that skip? Sonny's fallen off a cliff?!? Lead the way skip!
Re:I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Easily explainable (Score:5, Funny)
Bigger Issue! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Olympic Games deja vu (Score:5, Funny)
Correction: Sidney Mourning Harold
Re:Austria != Australia (Score:3, Funny)
I think that last one is "Was die vick, Ihnen!"
I'm surprised you didn't know that.
Re:Austrian Wildlife to Blame (Score:3, Funny)
Then it will be hell!
Re:Olympic Games deja vu (Score:4, Funny)
Correction: Throatwarbler Mangrove
Re:Olympic Games deja vu (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I hadn't heard about these. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Olympic Games deja vu (Score:3, Funny)
... purple monkey dishwasher.