NEWS: There's No Wrong Way to Crash a Segway

CELEB: There's No Wrong Way to Crash a Segway

The Segway... It's like they secretly built a machine to let us laugh at the rich and idle.

"Sure... it's going to revolutionize transportation. That's right! It, uh, uses very little energy! It's going to replace the car... And only rich people like you can afford its expensive price. Just pay the man and step right up onto this goofy-looking machine!"

It's hard to say why the world had such grand hopes, it's not like the pogo-stick or the "stuffed horsy-head on a broomstick," changed our lives.

Until now, the Segway's biggest claim to fame was guest starring on "Arrested Development."

I'm laughing as I type this. I don't know who you are, Piers, but I guarantee this is the hardest you'll ever make me laugh. Thank you for lightening my day with your stupid rich guy injury.

Somebody actually had to make this call. And someone else had to answer the question. Awesome. Picture two people hanging up and then laughing in rapid succession.

Still funny...

Now, no footage of the accident exists, but I'd like to believe it looked a little like this:



Or this:



Or this, which, unfortunately, comes with douche-commentary:



Finally:





TheCoolerKing rode a Segway once, without incident.

I'm going to predict that this thread will eventually contain pictures of President Bush falling off of a Segway. If I'm right, I'm a fucking genius and I deserve a check for seventy billion dollars. Pay the man.

Lamest accident EVER.

there's a mall near my hometown where all the security guards ride arouns on segways...well, not all of them I'm sure, but the ones brave enough to make fools of themselves certainly do.

I much prefer Mr. Garrison's version of "IT"

Self-fulfilling prophecy FTW! (someone else pay him):

I'm sure Extreme Segwaying is just around the corner.

if I wasn't watching so many cams on chat right now I'd watch those videos... but I can already imagine and all I can say is... lol

Isn't it like, impossible to crash a Segway?

MUAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

there are security people that ride segway's on Auburn's campus...

they make me laugh.

Didn't you watch the videos?

those things are out of CONTROL!!! They're so sensitive, one wrong move causes you to jettison into the pavement. I prefer my two legs to that madness, thanks.

The same guy who invented the segway invented the iBOT, which is awesome.

I saw one of these today when walking through the UCB campus, and almost swerved to hit it...as I do every time I see one. Biggest frickin' waste of ambulatory capability by a person that I have ever seen.

I have ridden on a Segway twice and both times it was on slick tile, like the tile they have in hospitals or schools. I rounded a corner going extremely fast and still didn't fall. The only type of people who fall on these things are people who don't correctly ride it. Your car can go out of control if you accelerate too quickly so I don't understand why people don't take the same precautions with Segways. I know that I will own a Segway one day. Why? Because it is a gadget that I can use to lug my fat ass around town with. Seriously, I would rather hop on one of these things to go to the grocery store or Best Buy than have to drive my car.

bahahahahahaha

A local mentally challenged man gets to his job on one of those. Glad he isn't driving a car.

The security guards at the Victoria Gardens (in world famous Rancho Cucamunga) ride segways... I think the plan is to make fleeing criminals laugh so hard they lose the ability to run.

Not a bad plan... plus it adds laughter to the world

Hobby horse.

i can actually recall sitting, suffering through nearly an entire episode of the today show to see this thing unveiled. it was supposed to be "revolutionary," potentially changing our daily lives (ha). i never truly recovered from the colossal, earth-shattering disappointment.

You guys are just jealous Segwaying frickin ROCKS, man!! Don't diss it till you've tried it...

aaaahaha that is the best thing i've read in a long time

Segways suck, but the guy who invented them mentioned on The Colbert Report that he's working with the military on giving soldiers the ability to jump 7 stories....onto rooftops and whatnot.

THAT would be awesome.

So, I must be incredibly out of touch. I thought that this article was about bad segues and that there was a horrible misspelling in the title.
Now that I have discovered the Segway, I can say that I haven't seen such a ridiculous piece of machinery in quite some time.