Owner of Segway company... Drives Segway off a Cliff and dies.

[teedubya]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01725/Heselden-460_1725570c.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html
ROFL ROFL :doh!:
The multi-millionaire businessman, 62, fell into the River Wharfe while inspecting the grounds of his North Yorkshire estate on a rugged country version of the Segway.
The Segway is a motorised scooter which use gyroscopes to remain upright and is controlled by the direction in which the rider leans.

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A passer-by found Heselden alongside his Segway in the Boston Spa area at about 11.40am on Sunday.
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.

"A Segway-style vehicle was recovered. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

"At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious."
Heselden was worth £166m and ranked 395th on the Sunday Times Rich List.

The former miner made his millions from defence contracts. He created a unique portable wire cage water containment system which when filled with earth and sand proved a major defence against bullets, missiles and suicide attacks.

His founded his first company HESCO Bastions with his redundancy pay when he was laid off from the mines.

The wire cage systems developed by Bastions have become standard military equipment for Nato as well as American and British forces.
The Segway operation was acquired by a UK based company backed by Heselden.

[MikeMaslowski]

Well that sucks.

[gblowfish]

God is a big fan of irony.

[Art Vader]

shoulda made it fly too

[vailpass]

Holy shit. Is this true? LMAO

[MahiMike]

...and now for something completely different...<segway>

[-King-]

Trying to segue to the after-life.

[the Talking Can]

i think alanis morrisette first sang about "a man on a segway, dumbass off a cliff...isn't it.."

[Phobia]

How would one bring this story up at a party without making an awkward transition?

[Bugeater]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

[PunkinDrublic]

My prayers have been answered.

[The Franchise]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

http://www.kk.org/streetuse/segway%20cops.jpg

[Radar Chief]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/segway_1.jpg

Fear the knock off Segway patrol.

[Bugeater]

http://www.kk.org/streetuse/segway%20cops.jpg
Oh, so they're popular in places other than the US?

[Bwana]

Oh, so they're popular in places other than the US?

In San Pedro, Belize, you can rent:

A. A golf cart
B. A bike
C. One of these piles of crap.

I always go with a fast golf cart over there for my transportation needs, but I saw a guy over there last year that rented one of these. His was in front of me in my cart and went over a speed bump. Long store short, he piled it up and did a head plant in the middle of the street. :eek:

I think I'll stick with a golf cart again this year.

[Slayer Diablo]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

I used one when I did security...if they didn't cost as much as a car (last I checked, they were priced at $5100 or something as equally ridiculous) I'd buy one to ride along the shoulders of roads. The one cool thing about how the states dealt with them is that most places decided to classify segway-riders as pedestrians...but there's also the sh*t about banning them on sidewalks in a lot of places.

[Demonpenz]

the cops use them here at the power and light, and I aint penzing ya

[BigMeatballDave]

God is a big fan of irony.That, he is. LMAO

[Valiant]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

Maybe you want to invest in my SJL??

Segway jousting league

[ChiefaRoo]

shoulda made it fly too

This isn't funny.....






LMAO

[Goldmember]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

Rich bastards that own an estate

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

lol...the Segway...what a worthless invention. Too fast for the sidewalk and too slow for the street. Who the hell buys these things and where do they ride them?

I want one ,just so I can drive it to Subway.

[teedubya]

I wonder what the last thing to go through his mind was... you know, besides rocks.

[Psyko Tek]

very popular with renta cops at malls

[JohninGpt]

This guy invented HESCO barriers also. HESCO's are far more useful than Segway's.

[Just Passin' By]

This guy invented HESCO barriers also. HESCO's are far more useful than Segway's.

Having a HESCO barrier on the edge of that cliff would certainly have been useful.

[cyberjedi]

He didn't invent Segways - he bought the company. Irony aside this guy was a great humanitarian and donated millions upon millions to charity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden

[blaise]

Upon news of his death stocks in Segway plummeted.

[Donger]

I'll bet that the Segway remained in a perfectly horizontal position all the way down, though. It's got gyroscopes. Too bad it doesn't come standard with BRS.

[blaise]

the cops use them here at the power and light, and I aint penzing ya

The drive them around the Quality Hill area, as well.
I also heard a guy today he was at a golf course where they had them instead of carts.

[Donger]

Upon news of his death stocks in Segway plummeted.

LMAO

Sure, but they've got to bottom out eventually.

[Hammock Parties]

We're on a seeeeeeeegway to hell

We're on a seeeeeeeeeeeeeegway to hell

And we're goin' doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwn

[Donger]

We're on a seeeeeeeegway to hell

We're on a seeeeeeeeeeeeeegway to hell

And we're goin' doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwn

LMAO

"We're in the pipe, five-by-five."

[Duck Dog]

He should have developed something soft to land on.

[DMAC]

At least he died doing what he loved....not walking.