# That weird push cart thing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-weird-push-cart-thing/128560>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-weird-push-cart-thing/128560 "2002-09-15T17:47:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrAndrewV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@MrAndrewV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAndrewV)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-weird-push-cart-thing/128560/1 "2002-09-15T17:47:17Z")

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Remember a while back there was that ‘It’ thing? That invention that was sposed to revolutionise transportaion?

What the hell happened to it? Is it out there? Are people using it?

What the hell is it anyway?

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-weird-push-cart-thing/128560/2 "2002-09-15T18:00:17Z")

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A sports commentator used _It_ this morning while driving along the course of NASCAR’s New Hampshire 300 racetrack before the race.

Beyond hat, I’ve never seen it demonstrated outside of a press conference called to talk about _It_.

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**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-weird-push-cart-thing/128560/3 "2002-09-15T18:29:12Z")

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search on ‘segway’ (take that francophones!)