A new way to end it all

[Nickodell]

A favorite way Brits "end it all" is by suicide leaps. Beachey Head, Sussex, near where my sister lives, is a 600-foot high cliff overlooking the English Channel, and a favorite spot. Over the years, people have either simply leaped off, but scores have done it in style, riding over the edge on bicycles or at high speed on motorcycles and driving over in cars and a wide variety of other vehicles, including at least one in an ice cream truck, the bell jingling on the way down.

Jimi Heselden, 62, the wealthy British owner of the Segway company, just introduced a new way, by driving one of his own 2-wheel machines off a cliff in Yorkshire, northern England.

 

[puff4]

Ironically, he was driving an 'off-road' model... little did he know just how 'off-road' it would be!

 

[wipeout]

The report I heard was that it was an accident and the cliff was only 30 feet high. Still a bit of irony in it. He had just given 16 million to his favorite charity.

 

[mikephillips]

Report on the news was that it went out of control and went over the cliff. Problem I have with that is, why not just step off?? They're not that fast and nothing holds you on so I figure it had to either have been a surprise, like driving in an area where the ground perhaps slipped away, or deliberate.

 

[Nickodell]

Report on the news was that it went out of control and went over the cliff. Problem I have with that is, why not just step off?? They're not that fast and nothing holds you on so I figure it had to either have been a surprise, like driving in an area where the ground perhaps slipped away, or deliberate.

Maybe Toyota makes the controls

 

[MikeH]

Maybe he was texting on the Segway, speaking of texting ...