Segway company owner dies.....

[mar1t1me]

IN A SEGWAY ACCIDENT.

Oh, the irony.....

[AbsorbantNut]

saw that on cnn.com earlier in class, everybody was laughing

[UNHCLL]

It wasn't the owner of the company.
He was the owner of a company that imported Segways to the UK.

The owner/creator of Segway lives about 15 miles from me. He's very much alive.

[Maluco]

It wasn't the owner of the company.
He was the owner of a company that imported Segways to the UK.

The owner/creator of Segway lives about 15 miles from me. He's very much alive.

wrong, this guy is the owner and he's very much dead...

[briansjacobs]

difference between inventor and owner. the inventor is alive, guy that owns the company is dead.

[ZM Blue Devil]

he bought it 10 months ago.

RIP

[Jand3rson]

difference between inventor and owner. the inventor is alive, guy that owns the company is dead.

Hence, the curse was not fulfilled. It's the inventors that are usually killed by their inventions.

[HarryPotter]

Ya that's kinda lame, but still ironic as fuck.

[87e30]

Old age + new technology...

[Restoman]

The company was going nowhere. I would have driven one off a cliff if I'd bought the company myself.

[Sailor37]

Doubtfully...the poor guy probably had a freakin heart attack or stroke and ran off into the water.

[Maluco]

cool story bro? More like amazing story.

Mr Heselden left school at 15 to become a miner but lost his job in the cuts that followed the bitter 1984 strike.

He used redundancy money to found his company, HESCO Bastion. It manufactures portable wire cages that can be lined and filled with earth and sand. At first he sold them to water companies to shore up the sides of canals.

But the ‘concertainers’ proved to be adept at stopping bullets, missiles and suicide bombers and have become standard military equipment for Nato as well as American and British forces.

Between 1998 and 2003 the Pentagon alone bought more than £50million worth of the flat-packed walls, which can be found throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr Heselden, who was awarded an OBE in 2006, gave £1.5million to the Help For Heroes fund two years ago. His company also sponsored the recent Armed Forces charity concert at Twickenham.

[s0urce]

It's the technology behind the segway that really blows my mind. The segway itself was a big fail. At least the road to cooler shit is being paved.

[UNHCLL]

Thanks for the correction, I was wrong.
I wasn't aware that Dean had sold Segway. I drive by their offices quite frequently here in NH and the sign is still large and prominent on the outside.

[Maluco]