British owner of Segway company dies after apparently driving one off a cliff

[slickcooldude]

A British businessman who bought the Segway personal-transporter company last year died in a freak accident this weekend when he apparently drove one off a cliff and into a river, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports.

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does anyone else besides me find this to be one hell of a way to go out?

 

[BluAffiliate]

Reminds me of this one time I was at a party and a black dude who was a Grey Goose promoter shows up to one of these things. Dude gets wasted and claims he can take the Segway down a flight of stairs, gets about half way and falls on his ass. Dude got seriously hurt. Fuck Segways.

 

[EricVonDoobie]

lol @ picturing drunk black dude on Segway boasting about it's advanced down-stairs capabilities let alone him trying and falling.

 

[Rexibit]

That's just messed up. No one should ever die by the hand of one of their products.

I'd like to know if he deliberately did it, or if the thing kept going and he couldn't control it.

 

[b_sun]

Driving a segway near a cliff. Brilliant.

 

[davidne]

That's just messed up. No one should ever die by the hand of one of their products.

 

[jryan21]

That's just messed up. No one should ever die by the hand of one of their products.

 

[iPwnNoobs]

No wonder u can get a segway for $600 bucks (w/ carrying case and extra keys) on Craigslist right now
http://ventura.craigslist.org/for/1973390949.html

 

[LotsOfZeros]

No wonder u can get a segway for $600 bucks (w/ carrying case and extra keys) on Craigslist right now
http://ventura.craigslist.org/for/1973390949.html

The wheels don't spin correctly on that one

 

[Dwight Schrute]

 

[joevis]

^ approved use of irony

 

[blogspotter]

Fuck.. I almost gasped looking at the title. Thought Dean Kamen Died... Didn't know he sold Segway.. He is like my icon.. British Owner part made me click to verify.

 

[freezeprogram]

Fuck.. I almost gasped looking at the title. Thought Dean Kamen Died... Didn't know he sold Segway.. He is like my icon.. British Owner part made me click to verify.

Yeah thats what I thought too. I've been a Kamen fan since I first heard about the whole 'ginger/it' thing.

 

[imkazu]

that's like an affiliate marketer dying form acai over dosage
RIP

 

[joevis]

that's like an affiliate marketer dying form acai over dosage
RIP

Segway creator = inventor and user of product
Affiliate marketer = not creator nor user of product

Please try again.

 

[JohnCJackson]

Segway creator = inventor and user of product
Affiliate marketer = not creator nor user of product

Please try again.

The creator and inventor of the Segway didn't die.
A new owner ( marketer) did.
You try again.

 

[joevis]

The creator and inventor of the Segway didn't die.
A new owner ( marketer) did.
You try again.

Fine, but his analogy is still flawed. Both of you try again.

 

[Duval]

Sounds like Karma / Voodoo biting someone on the ass!

 

[Parthenon]

Fine, but his analogy is still flawed. Both of you try again.

How about Vince Offer slap chopping his own nuts off (Yeah, the same nuts that we're "gonna love")?

Eh.. I don't think there's other irony that's 100% applicable here.

 

[Parthenon]

OMG:

Death by Drowning at a Lifeguards’ Party.


In 1985, to celebrate their first drowning-free season ever, the lifeguards of the New Orleans recreation department decided to throw themselves a party.

When the party ended, a 31-year-old guest named Jerome Moody was found dead on the bottom of the recreation department’s pool.

We suppose when it’s your time to go, then it’s your time to go: there were four lifeguards on duty and more than half of the 200 party-goers were themselves lifeguards!

Source: 30 Strangest Deaths in History