Multimillionaire Segway Inventor dies while...

[sonsofkraftybob]

Riding a Segway off a cliff...kinda ironic? Don'tchathink?




The multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died Sunday when he fell off a cliff while riding the famous motorized scooter, the Telegraph reports.

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.

Heselden's body was later found in a river by a passerby, the newspaper reports.

"Police were called at 11: 40 a.m. yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above," a spokesman for the West Yorkshire police told the newspaper.

"A Segway-style vehicle was recovered. He was pronounced dead at the scene," the spokesman reportedly said. "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/0...dies-driving-famous-scooter-cliff/?test=faces

 

[tehrick67]

That wasn't a very good segway

 

[patsload]

The inventor was actually Dean Kamen. What a bizarre story.

 

[sonsofkraftybob]

That wasn't a very good segway

Sell your stock now...

 

[sonsofkraftybob]

The inventor was actually Dean Kamen. What a bizarre story.

my bad...I guarantee you he will die someday too

 

[harrisonhits]

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He was reportedly testing a cross-country version of the upright, two-wheeled scooter when he plunged from the cliff.
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Design fail. Back to the drawing board, they might need to add some wings or a parasail.

 

[Pyxis]

"A Segway-style vehicle was recovered. He was pronounced dead at the scene," the spokesman reportedly said. "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious."


Does the order of this statement strike anyone else as odd?

 

[3 Point Stan]

Shocking footage. Warning.... not for the squeemish....






































You've been warned.

































Last chance.....

 

[HarpoonIPA]

"A Segway-style vehicle was recovered. He was pronounced dead at the scene," the spokesman reportedly said. "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious."


Does the order of this statement strike anyone else as odd?

Yes it does, I heard he was working on a robotic hand and arm after watching the big bang theory :shrug:

 

[Coltsfan2theend]

Shocking footage. Warning.... not for the squeemish....






































You've been warned.

































Last chance.....

I always found it amazing that the coyote woudl always land in the same spot every time......I am a road runner fan anyway....

 

[Pyxis]

Yes it does, I heard he was working on a robotic hand and arm after watching the big bang theory :shrug:

No, scope it out.

It was recovered. He was pronounced dead afterwards.:shrug:

I guess you have to have priorities. It just sounds cold.

 

[dropKickMurphy]

I always found it amazing that the coyote woudl always land in the same spot every time......I am a road runner fan anyway....

You think the Segway guy rode out about 20 feet off the edge of the cliff, but didn't start to fall until he realized it?

 

[Coltsfan2theend]

You think the Segway guy rode out about 20 feet off the edge of the cliff, but didn't start to fall until he realized it?

If the coyote can do it, why couldn't he....

 

[Baron Samedi]

Is it just me?

I mean...it's a Segway.....

..if it is out of control heading for cliff....


.....step off.

 

[taltos]

He had to see if the gyroscopes in the machine would keep it upright.

 

[sonsofkraftybob]

Is it just me?

I mean...it's a Segway.....

..if it is out of control heading for cliff....


.....step off.

You ever waterski? When you first learn...rule #1 is when you fall, let go of line...took me all summer to finally figure that out...must have drank an olympic sized swimming pool's worth of water.

 

[tehrick67]

I always found it amazing that the coyote woudl always land in the same spot every time......I am a road runner fan anyway....

you'd think he would have learned, and bought a parachute:shrug:

 

[3 Point Stan]

I feel awful for his wife and kid though.

 

[tehrick67]

I feel awful for his wife and kid thought.

you think they could put a trailer hitch on that? you should always have 2 hands on the segway, at all times.

 

[dchester]

That wasn't a very good segway

I'm not so sure. I thought the report said that the Segway was not damaged in the fall.