“In a bizarre twist, James Heselden, owner of the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter, died Sunday morning in a Segway-related mishap — just before the scheduled release of a study suggesting injuries related to the vehicles may be on the rise,” Dan Childs reports for ABC News.
“According to a witness report, Heselden, 62, apparently fell off a 30-foot cliff into a river while riding a Segway near his home in West Yorkshire, UK,” Childs reports. “Police found Heselden’s body and a Segway personal transporter in the river.”
Childs reports, “He was prounced dead at the scene and foul play is not suspected, West Yorkshire Police told reporters.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: When found, the Segway was just standing there in the water balancing on its own two wheels, unscratched.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
i always wanted to go about town just like Gizmo Duck from Duck Tales!
i always wanted to go about town just like Gizmo Duck from Duck Tales!
Talk about being the architect of your own demise. Taking a segue into the afterlife…
Talk about being the architect of your own demise. Taking a segue into the afterlife…
Tragic. Absolutely tragic. My heart and condolences go out to his family.
Tragic. Absolutely tragic. My heart and condolences go out to his family.
Ahh, who am I kidding? I laughed my ass off reading that.
Ahh, who am I kidding? I laughed my ass off reading that.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Apple. Why is it here?
This has absolutely nothing to do with Apple. Why is it here?
Sounds like a set-up. Inspector Morse would be all over it.
Life is so fragile. We forget.
Sounds like a set-up. Inspector Morse would be all over it.
Life is so fragile. We forget.
RP3-Agreed.
RP3-Agreed.
@Tommy Boy
Poor, really poor comment.
@Tommy Boy
Poor, really poor comment.
I’m sure it was a ‘bizarre twist’ that sent him over edge.
I’m sure it was a ‘bizarre twist’ that sent him over edge.
It’s Apple news cause The Woz rides a Segway, and we want The Woz to live long enough to become incorporated into an android body, developed by Apple of course, so he can help troubleshoot and invent Apple products for all eternity.
Oh yeah, sorry the old dude died, be careful The Woz!!!
It’s Apple news cause The Woz rides a Segway, and we want The Woz to live long enough to become incorporated into an android body, developed by Apple of course, so he can help troubleshoot and invent Apple products for all eternity.
Oh yeah, sorry the old dude died, be careful The Woz!!!
To describe the TRAGEDY as “bizarre twist”, the “journalist” committed incompetent, shameless, cynical act, for which he should be fired immediately and forever banned from ever working in media-related business.
To describe the TRAGEDY as “bizarre twist”, the “journalist” committed incompetent, shameless, cynical act, for which he should be fired immediately and forever banned from ever working in media-related business.
All death is tragic, sometimes it’s also ironic.
All death is tragic, sometimes it’s also ironic.
@ob1spyker: the “journalist” should have phrased it like this, but he did not; thus he committed an act of a low life, so to speak.