Segway owner killed by... er... riding a Segway off a cliff
I know I shouldn't laugh, but....
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Former miner Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding around his West Yorkshire estate in Boston Spa on a rugged country version of the Segway.
He bought the firm last December and was using one of the machines – which use gyroscopes to remain upright and are controlled by the direction in which the rider leans – to inspect the grounds of his property.
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. Invesitgators are probing whether there was a fault with his particular machine or it was driver error.
The guy grew up poor, invented a type of blast wall used to protect troops in war zones, and ended up giving tens of millions of dollars to charity. And now he'll simply be remembered as the guy who died in some sort of Wile E. Coyote free fall aboard the world's cheesiest mode of transportation. RIP dude!
Sep-28-2010 00:09
SYSTEM-J
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
Why are stupid stories always much more entertaining when they happened in your area? Boston Spa is literally no more than 15 miles away from my house.
