Thread: Segway owner drives Segway off of cliff

maybe if you were a weather man who predicted sunshine and then it rained on your wedding day. that would be ironic!

if he had created Wile E. Coyote and then died after driving off of a cliff and just dangled in midair for a second before dropping straight down....that would be ironic...

Originally Posted by MyK 3.0

again. not ironic. Alanis Morrissete really fucked up that word. both of those things are just inconvenient. well rain on your wedding day also sucks if you have an outdoor party planned.

I know. That is why that song popped into my head. I always thought it was interesting that someone would write a whole song about a word that they didn't understand the meaning of, and in doing so produced the very meaning of that word they didn't understand which actually kind of worked out because the title of the song was ironic.

You know, had she planned that, I would have called her a genius.

Originally Posted by maniclion

if he had created Wile E. Coyote and then died after driving off of a cliff and just dangled in midair for a second before dropping straight down....that would be ironic...

Do you think in his mind he felt like he hung out there for a sec before he went down?

Originally Posted by REDDOG309

Do you think in his mind he felt like he hung out there for a sec before he went down?

Nah, those things don't move fast enough, but one time while doing hare scrambles practice with a friend around the North Houston Bayou system I saw my friend who I was chasing make a sharp cut to the left but by the time I realized what he was dodging it was too late, the grass was about 3 ft tall and hid a massive sinkhole....I hit my front and back brakes and slid right over the top of it and just hung in the air for what seemed like a good 2 seconds before dropping straight down into the pit 6 foot deep, I can't remember if I had tried to bunny hop and thus made it seem to hover or if there is some scientific Wile E. Coyote theory behind it....

was it a acme product you were riding?

What an amazing man. Incredible accomplishments and generosity.

Originally Posted by KelJu

I know. That is why that song popped into my head. I always thought it was interesting that someone would write a whole song about a word that they didn't understand the meaning of, and in doing so produced the very meaning of that word they didn't understand which actually kind of worked out because the title of the song was ironic.

You know, had she planned that, I would have called her a genius.

youre right. I would love to see an interview were the host totally owns her on that point!

I wish this thread and sox's drive off a cliff

Originally Posted by The Situation

I wish this thread and sox's drive off a cliff

Rep'd.

How the fuck do you drive one of those off a cliff?? Don't the fuckers have brakes???

no brakes

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

Oh, the irony...



And yes, if I die by getting hit in the head with a baseball, I give all of you permission to laugh profusely at my demise.

I get the irony Sox....

It's cheaper to just ride my bike than purchase a segway ,( although, I think my racing bikes are more than the average segway..). Anyway, I think segways are probably more environmentally friendly for getting around cities if they don't want to deal with bikes. I guess it's no more ironic than a owner of Gary Fisher bikes dying while biking.....

Originally Posted by The Situation

no brakes

Or he didn't know how to use them. Now that would be ironic.

What a dipshit.

Originally Posted by lifthvy

How the fuck do you drive one of those off a cliff?? Don't the fuckers have brakes???

No, not in the conventional sense. Breaks would cause it to fall over. You lean back and the wheels decelerate until they reverse all together. Think of running down a hill using your legs. If you just stopped moving your legs you would face plant and probably roll all the way down the hill. To slow down you slow the speed at which your legs move until you can manage to balance yourself and stop.

Maybe he subcontracted the design with Toyota and the accelerator got stuck.

Most ironic thing i ever heard was that story about the guy who jumped off a building to commit suicide, and would have landed in a safety net and survived had he not loaded his dad's shotgun in the apartment below. His dad threated his mum with the shotgun completely oblivious to it being loaded, she ducked, his dad fired through the window, killed the son before he landed in the safety net.

True or not, thats pretty fucking ironic when you consider the only reason the guy was gonna kill himself is because he was sick of his parents arguing and his plan to have his mother killed and father put in prison failed.

Segways are just stupid.

good example of irony!

Originally Posted by Gazhole

Most ironic thing i ever heard was that story about the guy who jumped off a building to commit suicide, and would have landed in a safety net and survived had he not loaded his dad's shotgun in the apartment below. His dad threated his mum with the shotgun completely oblivious to it being loaded, she ducked, his dad fired through the window, killed the son before he landed in the safety net.

True or not, thats pretty fucking ironic when you consider the only reason the guy was gonna kill himself is because he was sick of his parents arguing and his plan to have his mother killed and father put in prison failed.

Segways are just stupid.

There was once an intelligent fellah in this area who decided to commit suicide via electrocution, by climbing a power pole to the top, and jumping out to grab the live wire. He did.....the voltage blew his legs off, and now he lives in a wheel chair.

Originally Posted by KelJu

I know. That is why that song popped into my head. I always thought it was interesting that someone would write a whole song about a word that they didn't understand the meaning of, and in doing so produced the very meaning of that word they didn't understand which actually kind of worked out because the title of the song was ironic.

You know, had she planned that, I would have called her a genius.

ten thousand spoons... when all ya need is a knife!

Great post.