AHOY THERE, SEGWAY
Personal scooter ends up in Lake Michigan
(Thanks to Matt Filar)
Post a comment
Your Information
(Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)
« Previous | Main | Next »
October 31, 2010
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
A Segway can double as a personal floatation device? That's good to know.
Posted by: Mitch | October 31, 2010 at 05:28 PM
Aren't there brakes on these scooters?
Posted by: nursecindy | October 31, 2010 at 05:30 PM
What is it with these Segways? At least this one didn't kill anyone before running into the lake.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/09/27/con-segway-death.html
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | October 31, 2010 at 05:39 PM
...and the ghost of Teddy Kennedy appears on Halloween.
Posted by: SW | October 31, 2010 at 05:42 PM
Ted Kennedy? That's all water under the bridge!
Posted by: Richard Nixon's Ghost | October 31, 2010 at 05:43 PM
They definitely have it in for people. One killed the company's owner.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | October 31, 2010 at 06:00 PM
The Segways have been talking to the SUVs. It's a conspiracy.Today the HoverRounds. Tomorrow the world. Bwahahaha.
Posted by: Loudmouth | October 31, 2010 at 06:32 PM
It's not just the outside toys that have it in for us. Some are out to get us from the inside.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | October 31, 2010 at 06:49 PM
Were there any squirrels in the area??? That could explain a lot.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 31, 2010 at 06:51 PM
Incarnation
Posted by: Loudmouth | October 31, 2010 at 06:58 PM
Ah, the roaches are arriving. So glad I put in a new doorbell yesterday. If only I had been allowed to electrify the stoop like I wanted.
Posted by: Loudmouth | October 31, 2010 at 07:14 PM
So the company's owner, with over 160 million dollars to his name, falls off one of his own devices and drowns, and they *don't* suspect anything unnatural? Hmmmm.
Posted by: Kristina L | October 31, 2010 at 07:18 PM
Don't drink and scoot.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | October 31, 2010 at 07:54 PM
This guy knows how Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are gonna feel Wednesday morning.
Posted by: Wingnut | October 31, 2010 at 08:11 PM
It's a little chilly for a swim. How does one drive into the water? Not paying attention or no brakes or drunk or something,
Posted by: Theresa | October 31, 2010 at 09:06 PM
They float!
Posted by: Elon | October 31, 2010 at 09:28 PM
I need one of those things. Have they gotten the price down below $400 yet?
Posted by: Nolidge is good | October 31, 2010 at 09:43 PM
Nolidge, you don't need one of these. After all the accidents on them lately they're probably under $40 now.
Posted by: nursecindy | October 31, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Sorry, Nolidge. Still $6,000.
Posted by: Elon | October 31, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Rats. A longer wait than I had hoped. Guess I'll have to settle for a Hover-Round.
Posted by: Nolidge is good | November 01, 2010 at 06:18 AM
It's a scene from the Risky Business remake. Some quotes:
"I parked my father's segway in Lake Michigan."
"Who's da u-boat commander?"
"I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased on a segway by Guido the Killer Pimp."
Posted by: wiredog | November 01, 2010 at 07:38 AM
'Personal scooter ends up in Lake Michigan'
i think it's eerie
Posted by: sandy | November 01, 2010 at 08:08 AM
*Applauds sandy's superior comment*
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | November 01, 2010 at 08:20 AM
Huron early, meanie ;)
Posted by: sandy | November 01, 2010 at 08:22 AM
Sandy's Ontario something.
(Sorry, not much left)
Posted by: Hammond Rye | November 01, 2010 at 08:27 AM
While Mondays are not especially great, I find the early mornings are still a placid time.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | November 01, 2010 at 08:29 AM
HOME'S the best place to be
Posted by: sandy | November 01, 2010 at 08:36 AM
...a day off is great
Posted by: sandy | November 01, 2010 at 08:37 AM
Not exactly a watershed insight, but I'll go with the flow.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | November 01, 2010 at 08:48 AM
Maybe the scooter needs some Niagara?
Posted by: wiredog | November 01, 2010 at 09:45 AM
"Chicago police could not say this evening how the Segway ended up in the lake . . ."
Um, maybe he drove it off the pier?!!!
Just a guess.
Chicago police might not be the sharpest tools in the shed.
Posted by: bonmot | November 01, 2010 at 11:15 AM
So water they gonna do about it?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | November 01, 2010 at 11:34 AM
You can take guided tours of Chicago on a Segway (http://chicagosegways.com/). Since the people in the picture are wearing matching helmets, I'm guessing it was part of a guided tour and somebody wasn't paying attention to the "How to stop a Segway" instructions at the beginning of the tour. Oops! Wonder who gets to pay for a new one?
Posted by: Joyce | November 01, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Define 'guided.'
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | November 01, 2010 at 12:38 PM
I kind of like how one of these stories about these devices leads naturally to another story about them.
Posted by: bonmot | November 01, 2010 at 01:02 PM
Speaking of segues, it makes me feel like I'm on a 'ridealong' with Darwin.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | November 01, 2010 at 01:21 PM
Those Segways are treacherous. I'm reasonably coordinated and the one time I spent an afternoon riding one I realized I had to be constantly on my guard against the types of situations the Segway doesn't like. Riding on a sidewalk I scraped the retaining wall -- the thing started bucking like a bull at Gilley's! I missed the exact center of the curb cut by a few inches and it acted like its natural state was hurtling toward the sidewalk at incredible velocity!
Posted by: Brian | November 01, 2010 at 02:35 PM
I love the file name on the article.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | November 01, 2010 at 02:53 PM