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

It's a really neat concept, but they're a) expensive, and b) silly looking. Of course, wearing your hat sideways (or a visor upside down and sideways) is silly looking too, but people do that.

Yup, chief wiggum's counterpart figured since they're used by security teams in malls and such, they would be helpful and bought 20 of them. Sometimes they would even let folks take them for a ride and fall down from them. It was quite entertaining.

I can't help but wonder how many broken skulls and widows the test jumps for that will result in.

"Bake 'em away, toys!"

In Chicago, the guards by that amazing free concert park
with the Cloud Gate, or "The Bean" sculpture is... those fools have them.



....damn.
I was going to post my picture or 2 I took of the security guard.
I remember I was laughing hysterically as I took the pictures.
In one he's whizzing by. But, I guess I never scanned them
into my Flickr, so I can't.

They use them at EPCOT. I saw a dude racing from toilet to toilet keeping the Toilet Paper stocked.

the rented police at a local mall ride around on them...ridiculous. the one time we saw them use them, one security guard was chasing a teenage shoplifter. he almost ran over a pack of elementary school girls and then nearly took a header when the criminal ran onto the escalator.

All of you haters out there..give it up for the Sedgeways....'cause walkin' is just too fuckin' hard!

When was the last time you crashed against the curb walking and broke three ribs? You might trip and do the same...but not crash!

I wonder how people react when they flip their Segway, given how expensive those things are. It's like "never mind the bone sticking out of my forearm! My precious ride is ruined!!!"

every time i see somebody on a segway (they do segway tours of downtown pittsburgh--looking dumb for the whole family!) i tell them how stupid they look.

it makes me feel a little better about myself.

Am I the only one celebrating Piers Morgan breaking ribs?

who?

The only thing segways are good for is jousting. And maybe a special episode of COPS/America's funniest home videos.

segways will always, always remind me of gob bluth.
props for the arrested development mention.

In the second pic of W eating it off of his segway, that woman is completely laughing at him.

As are we all .

The BBC news website gave it a small mention in the magazine section, digging up this tiny nugget:

And once again, real life pwnz comedy in the funny department.

You know it really does look like a old push mower you stand on.

In this mall that I go to, there are cops on segways.

I remember how they got hyped as the "invention of the century" or something like that when they debuted them on some morning tv show. I laughed my ass off when they said it would revolutionize transportation.

Oh yeah, and just to prove that it's a "I'm rich and stupid and I have nothing better to spend my money on", they play polo with them. Yeah, frikkan polo, the game with the ponies and the mallets and stuff. Except on a Segway.

I love that Gob Bluth rode one. Aressted Development is one of my favorite shows ever. Intelligent writing, smart humor... and you can't go wrong with a show that features an "on the next..." section with parts that are never on the following episode...

I still say you guys are just jealous