The Paralympics may have changed attitudes to disability in the UK, but this might be pushing it (Picture: Caters)

If wacky racer Dick Dastardly is ever paralysed in a car wreck, he’ll surely be ordering one of these.

Lance Greathouse’s mobility scooter – christened Lord Humungous – has a flame-thrower that spits fire 10m (35ft), around the length of a double-decker bus.

The dental equipment engineer, who sends disabled people ‘pimped’ wheelchairs, spent a month and $1,000 (£645) building the contraption out of en electric golf cart, a helicopter seat, all-terrain tyres and old dental machines.

Great wheels of fire: Take that, cacti! (Picture: Caters)

‘I love fire and wheelchairs so I thought why not put them together,’ the 52-year-old, from Phoenix, Arizona, said.


‘I would like to see some street gang member mess with someone in one of my chairs.’