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Old 09-27-2010, 10:27 AM  
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Owner of Segway company... Drives Segway off a Cliff and dies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...off-cliff.html

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.
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Old 09-27-2010, 12:03 PM   #16
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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.
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Old 09-27-2010, 12:05 PM   #17
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Old 09-27-2010, 12:08 PM   #18
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Old 09-27-2010, 01:13 PM   #19
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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?
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Old 09-27-2010, 02:06 PM   #21
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Old 09-27-2010, 02:06 PM   #22
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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.
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Old 09-27-2010, 02:12 PM   #24
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This guy invented HESCO barriers also. HESCO's are far more useful than Segway's.
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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.
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He didn't invent Segways - he bought the company. Irony aside this guy was a great humanitarian and donated millions upon millions to charity.

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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.
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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.
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