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Message started by Serowbot on 10/02/10 at 10:52:01

Title: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by Serowbot on 10/02/10 at 10:52:01

The millionaire owner of the Segway upright scooter company has died in a freak accident after riding one of the machines off a cliff into a river.
Jimi Heselden, 62, lost control of an all-terrain version of the scooter as he travelled along a rutted bridleway close to his home.
:-?... Ooops!...
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/09/28/amd_segway_x2.jpg

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by Stimpy on 10/03/10 at 02:28:18

...gravity truly doesn't discriminate.
Guess he went doing what he loved, RIP silly gyroscope man.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vy2Puo54Ko0/SoJgRccbK4I/AAAAAAAAGWQ/PBapiDwS4kQ/s400/irony.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/28/article-1315518-0B60D492000005DC-924_468x417.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/09/27/article-1315518-0B60BA9A000005DC-70_468x580.jpg

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/03/10 at 05:44:47

I wonder if he'd ridden that trail before? If not, I would just liketo point out that sometimes, in certain places, failure is final & there is no "Try, TRy again" option. If he went down a path that had a sheer cliff adjoining it on one of those things with no safety backups, like, someone YOUng & agile riding it, to prove it could be done, maybe some ropes, hell, anything but just go rolling off into oblivion..then he was just not thinking straight that day.

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by BurnPgh on 10/03/10 at 13:51:07

Had to be a trail he hadnt ridden before. If he knew the cliff was there and was moving toward it why wouldnt he just jump off the thing? Top speed of 12.5 mph isnt gunna be a whole lot of hurt if you have to jump ship.

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by mick on 10/03/10 at 16:09:15

7C4B4C506E59563E0 wrote:

but the captain always goes down with his ship,it's tradition didn't you know.

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by verslagen1 on 10/03/10 at 17:29:15

I wonder who he was texting? ::)

ok, jk.

Really, hats off to you mr. segway founder guy.
sorry the new software trial didn't go so well for you.

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by Serowbot on 10/03/10 at 19:46:40

Lived by the gun, died by the gun... :-?...

Title: Re: Segway Accident Kills Firm's Owner...
Post by buttgoat1 on 10/04/10 at 09:59:44

I heard that he was backing up to allow someone else to pass by