Segway face plant

To be fair, Segways do this a lot less often than I would love them to.

[#1 posted by dculberson , January 28, 2009 5:08 AM]

Oooh, now she can say she's been in a wheel contact incident and people will think she's an F1 driver! [snort]

[#2 posted by Moriarty , January 28, 2009 5:46 AM]

Ok, so the Segway humor rules for 2009 are officially the following:

1) As intentional joke props, Segways are no longer funny by their mere presence or in standard physical comedy situations.
2) Encountered in person, unironically deployed Segways are still ridiculous, but insufficiently noteworthy to share with others.
3) Spectacular Segway accidents are still funny.
4) The Segway-riding chimp is above all reproach.

[#3 posted by clockbound , January 28, 2009 5:56 AM]

Actually, can we get a yakkety saks version of that?

[#4 posted by grimatongueworm , January 28, 2009 7:02 AM]

Um...HELMETS???????????

DOH!

[#5 posted by michaeljohnprince , January 28, 2009 7:02 AM]

This is definitely some kind of viral marketing, right?

Look how the cameraman conveniently zooms in right before the lady has a make-out session with the floor.

But what the heck are they trying to sell?

[#6 posted by Anonymous , January 28, 2009 7:57 AM]

Seems she had her (over)confidence going strong as she was moving from side to side as if warming her tires ala nascar style.

My guess is they may be selling either bicycle helmets or dental implants.

[#7 posted by kerry , January 28, 2009 8:24 AM]

#5 - That lady was starting to go wildly out of control as she passed the camera, I would've zoomed in on her, too.

[#8 posted by mrmopwater , January 28, 2009 8:33 AM]

benny hillified:

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=B3gGav63_sE

[#9 posted by fastmovingblob , January 28, 2009 8:40 AM]

So the biking rule of crossing wheels applies to Segways too: the wheel in the back never wins.

[#10 posted by bex , January 28, 2009 11:53 AM]

I really am glad that they have never been ratified for use in the UK, I would hate to walk down the street with lardy boy coming past me on one of those.

That said they seen to be going faster than you would expect, something is fishy here

[#11 posted by ivan256 , January 29, 2009 12:13 PM]

The zooming in could have been done in post-processing.

[#12 posted by Anonymous , January 29, 2009 1:10 PM]

awesome, you can trip segways!

i think the real eye opener is how hard you faceplant if things go even a little bit wrong.

ouch!

expensive and dangerous...why?
the bike is a much better variation, and much cheaper, and saves having to segway to the gym every day to exercise. ;-)

[#13 posted by rollerskater , January 29, 2009 1:41 PM]

where was richie rich & his dog dollar?

[#14 posted by kpkpkp , January 29, 2009 3:19 PM]

Suboptimal Segway Density Threshold = 4 / Hectare!

[#15 posted by Anonymous , January 29, 2009 6:34 PM]

(points) Ha-ha!

[#16 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 11:54 PM]

This video sickened me. It's likely this woman suffered a serious brain injury. Am I the only one who might be wondering if that woman is o.k.? Really Brownlee? You'd like this to happen more often? What level of disconnectedness have we achieved to respond to this video with simple laughter?

I don't buy that somehow because she's a woman ("women can't drive" ha ha) fooling around on a dorky Segway ("can't tip over" ha ha), she somehow deserved it (ha ha).

[#17 posted by optgrad , January 31, 2009 12:03 AM]

This video sickened me. It's likely this woman suffered a serious brain injury. Am I the only one who might be wondering if that woman is o.k.? Really Brownlee? You'd like this to happen more often? What level of disconnectedness have we achieved to respond to this video with simple laughter?

I don't buy that somehow because she's a woman ("women can't drive" ha ha) fooling around on a dorky Segway ("can't tip over" ha ha), she somehow deserved it (ha ha).

[#18 posted by Rob Beschizza , January 31, 2009 12:16 AM]

Optgrad, did you really register just to be a hopeless hang-wringing twit?

[#19 posted by optgrad , January 31, 2009 1:33 PM]

Rob: I've never seen (or noticed) a posting like this before here (and I've been reading a LONG time). It is a helluva lot like laughing at somebody's pain. Not used to it here.

[#20 posted by Anonymous , February 2, 2009 10:10 AM]

I agree with Optgrad. Laughing at (possibly serious) injury -- not cool.