{"id":8809,"date":"2010-09-27T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/27\/owner-of-segway-inc-dies-ridin\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:33:49","slug":"owner-of-segway-inc-dies-ridin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/owner-of-segway-inc-dies-ridin\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of Segway inc dies riding his Segway off Cliff, Into River"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While riding around his North Yorkshire estate on a Segway, [Jimi Heseldon] reportedly drove straight off a cliff and into the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Wharfe\">River Wharfe<\/a>. A spokesperson for West Yorkshire police confirmed his death: &#8220;He was pronounced dead at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techeye.net\/business\/owner-of-segway-rides-segway-off-cliff-dies\">source<\/a> <em><--- warning, web site may be poorly behaved<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heseldon did not invent the Segway, he just bought the company last year.  His company was primarily engaged in defense contracting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While riding around his North Yorkshire estate on a Segway, [Jimi Heseldon] reportedly drove straight off a cliff and into the River Wharfe. A spokesperson for West Yorkshire police confirmed his death: &#8220;He was pronounced dead at the scene.&#8221; source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2i5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}