09-27-2010, 08:50 AM | #1 |
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Segway owner dies on Segway
LONDON – A British businessman who last year bought the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter has died in an accident on one of the vehicles.
Police in West Yorkshire said Monday that 62-year-old James Heselden and a Segway were found in the River Wharfe near Boston Spa, in northern England. Police said a member of the public had reported seeing a man fall over a 30-foot (9-meter) drop into the river on Sunday. Heselden bought control of the New Hampshire-based Segway company in December. He made a fortune through his firm Hesco Bastion which developed a system replacing sand bags to protect troops.
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09-27-2010, 08:51 AM | #2 |
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I guess Bush didn't do so bad when he fell off of one a few years ago.
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09-27-2010, 08:54 AM | #3 |
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Maybe he was trying to test a new underwater feature??
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09-27-2010, 09:07 AM | #4 |
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Wife and I took a Segway tour of the West end of Bermuda on a cruise two years back. Lady on one all of a sudden took off straight at a parked car........was not pretty , she broke her nose, arm, and three or four fingers. All the people on the tour were yelling out "jump, jump" as she ploughed into the side of that car.
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09-27-2010, 12:10 PM | #5 |
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And the Darwin award goes to....
Horrible when doors lock like that on you and you can't get out.... :(
oh....wait... (for real, how hard is it to jump? I mean...choice of bumps and bruises or death?? Really?)
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09-27-2010, 12:34 PM | #6 |
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Don't drink and ....? Be Lazy?
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09-27-2010, 08:36 PM | #7 |
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This may help my buddy and all those others who are suing the company for the unsafe topple prone segways.
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09-27-2010, 09:28 PM | #8 |
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I have ridden and even raced them once. They are lots of fun until the computer locks up and you fall. I wonder if they use a Microsoft OS.
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09-27-2010, 09:38 PM | #9 |
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09-28-2010, 04:07 AM | #10 |
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he fell off a cliff... maybe he didn't see the edge?
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