Friday, May 3, 2013

Joe the Inventor


Joe was the typical couch potato – a person who sit on the couch eating potato chips and watching TV the whole day. He lived in Idealville in the year 3861, a city for millionaires that stretched out for hundreds of miles. One day, Joe decided he was bored with TV. He wanted to do something else. He decided he would become an inventor that helped the world.
He was almost there when he saw the new city dump. It was in the middle of the city, and stretched out around five miles. There was no way to get around this radioactive pile of metal, plastic, and phortugium - the solid material that came out of the hovercrafts' exhaust pipes. It would be inconvenient to go around the dump, thought Joe. Finally, after a long time of thought, Joe decided to test himself if he was a worthy inventor. In his hovercraft, he found a few otrufiamagnets (super strong magnets that could suck up most materials) -  eleven, in fact, and some other assorted materials. He attached the eleven magnets to a pan, and attached a battery to the pan to activate the batteries.
Suddenly, the trash in a five-foot radius started flying towards him.
"It worked!" he exclaimed.
He disconnected the battery from the pan. He attached the pan to long wires connected to the electrical sockets of his hovercraft. The pan dropped down and fell off the wires. He decided to use the 30-foot long metal cable, or rope, to keep the pan from falling down. He flew all around the dump, sucking up all the trash. Where do I put it? he asked himself, Maybe I could dump it off the Surface Cliff. He flew over to the "Surface Cliff" - the cliff ringing the city floating in the air - and disconnected the wires. The trash tumbled through the air like rain and landed on the barren, polluted Earth down below.
The trash safely disposed, Joe headed back to the factory. There, everybody was cheering for him. He wondered why. Suddenly, it hit him - he had found a new way to dispose of trash! All the Idealvilleans clapped him on the back, congratulating him and thanking him. Joe was extremely happy - he was finally the inventor he really wanted to be!

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