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1. on 25 Jul 2012 at 10:52 am1Jack Murphy

   It’s a rarified atmosphere indeed in ‘that Dublin’ , almost like the ‘Capitol’ in the hunger games. For all their comfort and security I still wouldn’t want to be them ( or listen to them for very long ). They can have their expensive peach polo shirts , I’d settle for equality of opportunity , sustainable indigenous industry and gruit beer on tap.

2. on 25 Jul 2012 at 3:35 pm2Donagh

   This type of thing was bound to happen once people in working class estates started to keep their own horses. But these kids are really taking their lives in their hands playing on Segways. A little browsing of the internet reveals

   “In 2003, the company sold 6,000 units, and by September 2006 approximately 23,500 had been sold,[24] when all units sold up to that point were recalled[24] due to a software glitch that could cause the units to reverse and that could cause riders to fall off.”

   Personally, I think its a pity that this was fixed. I was wondering too how it was faring in the marketplace given that I have never seen anyone use one to get into work in the morning.

   “The first owners were Dean Kamen and venture capitalists. Dean Kamen gave up control to the private investors a few years after the company started selling segways. Later the company sold controlling interest to Jimi Heselden. The Heselden family still has control of the company.”

   “Still has” because….

   “The millionaire boss of the U.K.-owned company Segway died when he rode one of the firm’s two-wheeled scooters over a cliff near his home in northern England, police confirmed Monday.

   James William Heselden, 62, from Thrope Arch, died about 11:40am local time Sunday when he rode one of the Segway scooters off a cliff and into the River Wharfe in West Yorkshire, northern England.”

   I think the term for that is ‘tragi-comic’

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