Segway Owner Dies

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By Nads | | 1:02 pm | 3 Comments
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Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway died after falling off a cliff while on a Segway. Those things are dangerous! Poor guy!

I got hooked up with a Segway last year for a day, and literally flew off the damn thing like four times, no joke! I don’t know if you’ve ever been on one or not, but you get to a point where you think you have a handle on the dumb thing, and then it grounds you, literally. Bill Neuenschwander, owner of a Segway tour company told the Associated Press, “People get it right away…This product is perfectly safe when people respect its limitations.” Yeah, so is everything else in life when you respect limits, but sometimes accidents just happen…on Segways–more times than not.

I can’t say I’ve ever felt safe on a Segway.

Here’s a video of some Segway crashes:

So Ironic. Jimi dies while driving a Segway, and Steve Irwin dies doing what he loved. R.I.P. dudes.

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

3 Comments

  1. 1
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted September 27, 2010 at 1:36 pm

    If it was headed toward a cliff, shouldn’t he, ya know, have jumped off or something?

  2. 2
    soapboxx
    Posted September 28, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    I guess this means I’ll die eating chocolate?….

  3. 3
    2muchbravo
    Posted September 29, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    No way! I seriously thought that was a joke headline!
    I considered taking a Segway tour in San Francisco last year, but thought better of it. It’s a wee bit hilly for me.

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