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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html
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.
Published: 10:37AM BST 27 Sep 2010
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.
The former miner made his millions from defence contracts. He created a unique portable wire cage water containment system which when filled with earth and sand proved a major defence against bullets, missiles and suicide attacks.
His founded his first company HESCO Bastions with his redundancy pay when he was laid off from the mines.
The wire cage systems developed by Bastions have become standard military equipment for Nato as well as American and British forces.
The Segway operation was acquired by a UK based company backed by Heselden.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html
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.
Published: 10:37AM BST 27 Sep 2010
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.
The former miner made his millions from defence contracts. He created a unique portable wire cage water containment system which when filled with earth and sand proved a major defence against bullets, missiles and suicide attacks.
His founded his first company HESCO Bastions with his redundancy pay when he was laid off from the mines.
The wire cage systems developed by Bastions have become standard military equipment for Nato as well as American and British forces.
The Segway operation was acquired by a UK based company backed by Heselden.
Comments
Brilliant.
Segways are so fuckin stupid.
His ass was trying to determine if injuries were on the rise!!! LOL
Leave it to Herm.
Segways are kind of awesome. I'm jealous of people who work in big factories and stuff and get to drive them. Though that can't beat a friend of mine who was a chemical engineer at some enormous plastics factory in BFE, and she got to ride around on a giant tricycle. She said it was the only part of the job she liked.
BAN
I dont know about segways, good idea but they looked like shit and the ppl that ride them look worse.
They should have got Xzibit to do a Pimp My Segway show...then we might have seen some progress.
Will anyone ride these shits now?
BTW...this
"The former miner made his millions from defence contracts."
'Scuse me while I kiss the ground.
He didn't make arms:
"Heselden made his fortune through his firm Hesco Bastion Ltd., which developed the "Hesco" blast wall system that replaced the sand bags used to protect troops in Afghanistan and Iraq."
This technology has also been used in flood and erosion control.
He still made money from wars. And I just bought it up cus that comment stuck out after reading the article...
BTW- Can you imagine having to ride a segway to a gig with your crates? Do Segways come with a trailer option? What happens if you ride your Segway to a gig and then get lucky...where does the lady sit/stand? We will never know now that dear old Jimmy is gone....
She sits right by your side! Or you by hers - after her gig:
On one hand this thing is awesome, on the other it's way too complicated and expensive for what it's doing.
A thousand years from now this will be looked at as the beginning of our devolution into limbless brain-larvae.
The dude definitely did not "Know The Ledge"
I found the original thread, but most of the images are gone, so here is a repost of Adventures of Segueway Mom.
A photo collection inspired by this original, undoctored image.