I'm guessing he forgot to turn the thing on.

 

I'm guessing he was trying to chew gum at the same time.

 

I'm guessing he's a moron who can't pronounce many words in the English language who stole the election with help from a republican court in Florida.....D'OH sorry that was a little political!

I think the real reason it tossed him off was that he was trying to ride it with a tennis racquet in his right hand, I think you need both hands on the bars on one of those things, but I'm not a rich dandy who can buy $5000 scooters to play around on so I don't really know.

Why would anyone get one of those things anyway?? Aren't Americans fat enough already that we don't need another device to keep us from walking?

 

 

I guess W can find a way to do the impossible. Saw one of these in Fresno this week and the guy was wearing a helmet.

 

biking in mission bay yesterday, I saw one(by belmont park for you SD folk). I felt the need to pace it on the boardwalk on my bike, casually chatting with the dude, who must've been 15 or so. I said "hey...that thing is supposed to revolutionize human transportation, huh?" and he answered, "yeah, it's pretty cool huh?" playing along, i said "uh huh.....so how much was that thing?" "oh, I think my dad paid about $5,000 for it." "oh....wow. see, this bike here only cost me about 200 bucks, and i seem to be going as fast as you are, without looking like a complete idiot. and see, I can go a lot faster than you, without breaking much of a sweat. and, I can fit this bike into my car, and it doesn't weigh 50 pounds like that piece of crap. 5000 dollars well spent, eh?" (about now this girl I'd been chatting with and who was pacing behind me starts cracking up, and the guy realizes i've been chastizing him...apparently he thought I was serious about admiring his little toy.) so the segway...pilot(?) says, "hey! My dad can beat you up, so stop being mean to me!" I couldn't help it, so i stopped, got off my bike, and laughed until i could not laugh any longer. you kinda had to be there, but these things are so goofy looking that I just want to hit Dean Kamen for thinking it will revolutionize anything. all the secrecy about the project was so idiotic, i was expecting something useful.... 5000 would get you one hell of a nice custom built titanium and carbon bike....and you'd burn some calories as you got where you're going a lot faster, too. *shakes head*

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I still would not pick on a kid for riding a Segway. Yeah there ridiculously stupid, but so what.

 

i have a problem with people who have falsely inflated images of themselves...I was actually interested in knowing about it until he said, snottily, that his dad had paid 5 G's for it so he could have a toy. that kinda pissed me off, because La Jolla Kids are their parent's offspring, and having gone to school in LJ I know that many La Jolla kids end up just as snotty, pretentious, and lazy as their parents. some of you are probably from LJ, and I don't front; the vast majority of La Jollans are nice, courteous, neighborly, and generous, but as is often the case the select few "bad seeds" ruin the reputation for everyone. Yes he was an LJ kid, or if not, he got into a Cayenne Turbo with a "Viking H20 polo"(La Jolla High=vikings) sticker on the rear bumper oh, the whole water polo team could use a needle to their collective ego that's swollen to the size of the frickin' budweiser blimpm too. anyways.... enough ranting. And no, I'm not some asshole bully, I'd like to think that most people find me to be a very nice person...some people need to be knocked off their pedestals at times, though.

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remember the hype of IT...

citys will have to be rebuilt...

overpriced scooter -

new transportion etc etc.. I still like Mr. Garison's mode of transportion (for all you south park fans) "you mean i can use the handles"

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by djohnston
[B]Why would anyone get one of those things anyway??