Segway Company Owner Peter Pans Off Cliff Riding Segway

[Sundowner]

You can't make stuff like this up.

At least he died doing what he enjoyed....I guess.

Regards,
Sun




Segway company owner dies riding two-wheeled machine off cliff

Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, has died after riding one of the two-wheeled machines off a cliff and into a river.......

.....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. ....

......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.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html

[1sum41]

why would you ride a segway next to a cliff?

[Dichotomy]

am I the only person that's read that article that thinks it might have been self induced?

[RoGenT]

Talk about bad Karma 

[oakranger]

am I the only person that's read that article that thinks it might have been self induced?

Are you some kind of creative writers or something?  You sure know how to pick out the errors in people's grammar and spelling. 

[Dichotomy]

I get testy sometimes Oak <S>

[oakranger]

I get testy sometimes Oak <S>

I see.  Well, i guess the best thing to say, "I am only human, that is why pencils have erasers".

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Talk about bad Karma 

I didn't do it!!! 

[eagl]

Yea, that's ironic.

It doesn't help the company's case for permitting segways access to pedestrian routes either.  If the owner of the company was killed because he couldn't control his own segway, think of how many people might get hurt/killed in the *next* accident.

[Jayhawk]

the owner of the company was killed because he couldn't control his own segway

This is an as5umption (really HTC?) based on no evidence.

[eagl]

This is a sweetieumption based on no evidence.

Yea, it is an a5sumption.  It still doesn't help the company's position that these things are safe.

If he was murdered, tossed off the cliff, and then his off-road segway was placed at the bottom of the cliff next to a path he was known to travel, then it was either the smartest or dumbest murderer evar

[Sundowner]

And now I salute Mister Heselden for helping our Wounded Warriors.

Salute

Sun

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/06/owner-segway-donates-segways-wounded-warriors-death/?test=latestnews

Owner of Segway Donates 1,000 Segways for Wounded Warriors Before His Death

America’s wounded warriors lost an advocate last week when the British philanthropist and Segway tycoon Jimi Heselden died in a freak accident while riding one of his vehicles. Before his death, Heselden donated 1,000 Segways, a gift valued at more than $5 million, to the Segs4Vets program that provides the mobility devices to American service members who are disabled by injuries during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.......

[Dichotomy]

hopefully the current owners honor his memory with the continuation of this

[oneway]

The Segway is a failed attempt at human transportation...period

God bless this guy and his family...but the sooner the Segway disappears from modern culture the better...

I am astounded this contraption,its company and manufacturing capacity have endured as long as they have...

Other than wing nut "Green" communities who buy these for their meter maids so they can run down pedestrians on a side walk...who is buy this piece of junk?

Oneway

[Jayhawk]