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Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff

Posted by samzenpus on from the dead-mans-curve dept.

necro81 writes "Jimi Heselden, the British multi-millionaire defense contractor and philanthropist, who bought the Segway company last December from inventor Dean Kamen, died yesterday after an accident while riding one of the machines. While using a ruggedized X2 version of the two-wheeled balancing scooter at his estate in North Yorkshire, he apparently drove over the edge of a precipice and into the River Wharfe. He was found later by a passerby and declared dead on the scene."

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  1. Where's the camera!? by M1FCJ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look ma! No hands!

  2. Wow... by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And I thought Wharfe was a pussy...

  3. Re:Not the inventor by mmaniaci · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Without war a defense contractor would be out of a job. Bombs, guns, or walls, contributing to war is contributing to war.

  4. Re:Alas poor segway, I knew him not so well by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Velcro was designed for its exact purpose. Go ask NASA.

    Microwave overs were created for their exact purpose after someone realized that microwave energy could be used to heat things up.

    These devices weren't created then found a niche, they were created for a specific purpose from the start. Nice try though.

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