And now a SEGUE into something sad...

[idkMyBFFist]

Owner of Segway Company Dies After Driving Famous Scooter Off Cliff (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/27/owner-segway-company-dies-driving-famous-scooter-cliff/)


Jimi Heselden, 62, died after skidding off a cliff at his estate in Yorkshire, England. He was reportedly testing a cross-country version of the upright, two-wheeled scooter when he plunged from the cliff.


He should have taken lessons from the pro...
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSq6KzJwdRmSoOnbA4M1v7EW8kU2j6aY3zzHIewmWti4Oj2VfM&t=1&usg=__hG3em8fAXLAJRQ_3qjJ_q86g608=

[Schooby]

Wow...at first I thought it was a joke but apparently it's twue. It's wearwy twue. :facepalm:

[Fallacy]

How ironic.

[Majide]

The guy who created the segway was just on some news show yesterday (pre-recorded) talking about some fancy system to convert nasty water to clean, drinkable watter.


I wonder if it's the same guy...

Aww, no clean water then...

[ForeverDcember]

OMG I about had a heart attack. I thought they were going to say Dean Kamen, the one who invented it. I would have been uber sad (not that this story isn't, it's just that I have a lot of respect for Dean Kamen). Then again, he is smarter than to test drive this next to a damn cliff. :facepalm2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen

[OwenKealy]

Cliff notes?

[Phrozt]

Cliff notes?

D'awwwww...

Btw, surprisingly appropriate avatar for this conversation.

[vec]

Multi-millionaire Jimi Heselden, the owner of Segway Inc. since December 2009, has died after reportedly driving a Segway scooter off a cliff and into a river.

The fatal accident allegedly occurred at Heselden's West Yorkshire estate, according to the Daily Mail. He was "using one of the machines--which use gyroscopes to remain upright and are controlled by the direction in which the rider leans--to inspect the grounds of his property," writes the Daily Mail. "A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said today: 'Police were called at 11.40am yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above.'"

Police told the Telegraph that a "Segway-style vehicle" was recovered at the scene of the accident.

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linly (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/jimi-heselden-segway-boss_n_739983.html)

[saint.]

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[jmegirl]

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=396910&t=2260965

:nono1:

[Count_Chocula]

was he retarded? the OP I mean for repostin this.

[J03]

The guy who created the segway was just on some news show yesterday (pre-recorded) talking about some fancy system to convert nasty water to clean, drinkable watter.


I wonder if it's the same guy...

Aww, no clean water then...

Nope, not the inventor, just the guy who bought the rights to it.

Personally if you ask me, he was either really drunk, or thrown off the cliff by someone else who threw his segway off with him.

[RefCache]

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=396910&t=2260965

:nono1:

jme saw vec rollin'. she hatin'!!

[Phrozt]

jme saw vec rollin'. she hatin'!!

I saw Jimi rollin... he fallin!

[RefCache]

I saw Jimi rollin... he fallin!

He was ridin' deadly!!!

[Majide]

Nope, not the inventor, just the guy who bought the rights to it.

Personally if you ask me, he was either really drunk, or thrown off the cliff by someone else who threw his segway off with him.

Ahh, okay - I was just wondering. Thanks.

Yeah... so how do you just fall off of a cliff...

[Phrozt]

Ahh, okay - I was just wondering. Thanks.

Yeah... so how do you just fall off of a cliff...

http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gravity-theory.jpg

[afrosheen]

OMG I about had a heart attack. I thought they were going to say Dean Kamen, the one who invented it. I would have been uber sad (not that this story isn't, it's just that I have a lot of respect for Dean Kamen). Then again, he is smarter than to test drive this next to a damn cliff. :facepalm2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen

wow, i was thinking the same thing, FD :faint:

[jmegirl]

http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gravity-theory.jpg

:rofl2: :lmao: :lol: :roll:


*breathe*


:rofl2: :lmao:

[Majide]

http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gravity-theory.jpg

Aww, well that's just cute!

[Count_Chocula]

http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gravity-theory.jpg

cat pics > all the rest...

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-invisible-segway-cat.jpg

[jmegirl]

cat pics > all the rest...

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-invisible-segway-cat.jpg

I can't believe I am agreeing with you. :facepalm2:

[Phrozt]

cat pics > all the rest...

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-invisible-segway-cat.jpg

I wasn't trying to be funny, I was just answering an honest question.

[TigerStar]

http://foo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gravity-theory.jpg

:roll: :lol:

[stealth]

I wonder what this news will do to the segway cliff tours (http://www.barbadostours.net/?event=offer.detail&offerId=13066&startDate=09/01/2010&endDate=09/30/2010)? :dontknow: :sadwalk:

[beanqueen]

:rofl2: :lmao: :lol: :roll:


*breathe*


:rofl2: :lmao:

I agree...Made me actually LOL

[ForeverDcember]

wow, i was thinking the same thing, FD :faint:

This is why we are friends dearest, we think alike.

[Count_Chocula]

This is why we are friends dearest, we think alike.

Nice to know that you people with the pea-brains are friends.