Segway company owner dies riding two-wheeled machine off cliff
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The multi-millionaire businessman, 62, fell into the River Wharfe while inspecting the grounds of his North Yorkshire estate on a rugged country version of the Segway.
The Segway is a motorised scooter which use gyroscopes to remain upright and is controlled by the direction in which the rider leans.
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.[/quote]
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Eh... :wtc:
Wonder where that money is going to
Should have had a Hoveround
Segway was a failure perhaps it was suicide?
this dude made HESCO boxes which are like modern sandbags now.
too bad he died like that
sounds like the setup to a bad CSI joke
I wish I'll invent something cool, get rich and die using the thing I invented.
ESPECIALLY if it's like a lube or something.
I guess...
[img]http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/zerosignal/horatio460.jpg[/img]
[b]It was a Segway to Hell[/b]
:v:
I wonder why he fell
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmLLGYn9Fo8[/media]
[QUOTE=AlphaGunman;25087013]I wish I'll invent something cool, get rich and die using the thing I invented.
ESPECIALLY if it's like a lube or something.[/QUOTE]
He didn't invent it, Dean Kamen invented it. This guy only ran the company that sold them.
He isn't the inventor though, he just owns the company.
[QUOTE=CounterTunes;25086972]Wonder where that money is going to[/QUOTE]
Given his past form for donating to charity (He'd donated a total of £23mil' to charity prior to his death) its fair to assume that a good chunk will go to charity.
He committed suicide because nobody wanted his shitty, road and path illegal, expensive, stupid looking pile of shit.
Fucks sakes. I LOVED THAT COMPANY.
Killed by his own machine, how terrible.
Sounds like the outcome of a Hitman misssion.
Coincidence? I think not.
[QUOTE=scotland1;25088857]He committed suicide because nobody wanted his shitty, road and path illegal, expensive, stupid looking pile of shit.[/QUOTE]
If I was rich and I had money to burn I would totally buy one.
i'm surprised that no one has considered drugs and/or alcohol as a cause of death
[QUOTE=Str4t0s;25087016]I guess...
[img]http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/zerosignal/horatio460.jpg[/img]
[b]It was a Segway to Hell[/b][/QUOTE]
I feel terrible for laughing as hard as I did.
What a way to die.
I kind of expected badage boys when I saw the title
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