The BLSR Project

[p38arover]

Ben Felten is the disability support officer at our local council. He was recently in the news when the Penrith Optus store refused to sell him a mobile phone because he didn't have a driver's licence. He did, however, have 100 points of other identification.

Ben had gone into the store with his guide dog. He then went to Telstra and they sold him a phone.

Anyway, I was talking to Ben's sister and she told me he's about to attempt to break the blind motorcycle speed record of 265km/h. He'll be doing to at Temora airfield. Ben was a motorcyclist before going blind. I understand he'll be on The Project on Ch 10 (?) this Thursday.

See https://www.facebook.com/blindlandspeedrecord and: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp4Z_WK7inc[/ame]

[Homestar]

Geez, I can't imagine how scary that would be. Done 250 on a bike before, but I hardly dared blink!

Best of luck to him. I watch the project, so I'm sure to see him if he's on.