Jimi Heselden

Joie de Vivre —

From all accounts he was a great man. A former miner, he pioneered a mesh barrier to protect from and limit land erosion. The military put it to use in place of sandbags to protect from explosions. With his new fortune he invented the Segway, the electric scooter that divides opinion like Marmite, and embarked on charitable work and became one of Britain's great philanthropists. Yesterday his tragic and somewhat surreal ending came when his all-terrain Segway skidded down a ravine on his Yorkshire estate and into the River Wharfe.

I'm sharing this because it is bizarre, but having read about him and found his death no laughing matter I don't have any questions for Revival members or anything.

RIP Jimi Heselden

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You — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 - 20:08

HE never invented it. I think he was the current owner of the company though.

During Ramadan, while onthe bus to work I had my first real sighting of someone using a segway.

zdc — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 - 11:28

Whoever he is, he's ugly. Buuuut, if he's rich he will be a babe magnet.