"Only a complete idiot can fall off a Segway"

[Ric]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

[Tenex]

Ric wrote:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

I imagine it can be quite a disconcerting ride.

[Orienteer]

"Ric" <spam@off.com> wrote in message news:bcc4ie$hb3$1@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr...
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

The rumours are true then....

[Just Zis Guy]

"Ric" <spam@off.com> wrote in message news:bcc4ie$hb3$1@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr...
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

Probably trying to chew gum at the same time...

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Guy
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I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104

[Bryan]

Originally posted by Just Zis Guy
"Ric" <spam@off.com> wrote in message news:bcc4ie$hb3$1@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr...
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

Probably trying to chew gum at the same time...

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Guy
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I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.


No he can clearly be seen holding a tennis racket!

How do you do a double handed backhand on a segway without falling off? :-)

Bryan

[Not Me]

Ric deftly scribbled:

> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

I wonder if the start button (presumably it has one) on a Segway is pressed by the same finger that
holds the nuclear attack button ..

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Digweed

[Dave Kahn]

"Ric" <spam@off.com> wrote in message news:<bcc4ie$hb3$1@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr>...
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

Looks as though he didn't realise you have to switch it on.

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Dave...

[Ian]

I'm suprised he hasn't blamed the fall on a devlish Arab plot!

> "Ric" <spam@off.com> wrote in message news:<bcc4ie$hb3$1@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr>...
>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html

[W K]

"Dave Kahn" <dkahn400@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:57db8bde.0306130524.5ab34f42@posting.google.com...
> "Ric" <spam@off.com> wrote in message
news:<bcc4ie$hb3$1@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr>...
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030612/170/4dmvj.html
>
> Looks as though he didn't realise you have to switch it on.

I think Segway were going though some tests to prove it "foolproof".

[Daniel Auger]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Peter Clinch wrote:

> As it correctly states in "Murphy's Law and other reasons why things go wrong", you can't design a
> foolproof system, because fools are so ingenious...

Also, you can't make anything idiot-proof, since somebody will always make a better idiot. ;-)

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[Peter Clinch]

W K wrote:

> I think Segway were going though some tests to prove it "foolproof".

As it correctly states in "Murphy's Law and other reasons why things go wrong", you can't design a
foolproof system, because fools are so ingenious...

Pete.
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