{"id":188440,"date":"2010-09-27T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/27\/i-think-that-it-might-be-a-blasphemous-rumor\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T23:02:00","slug":"i-think-that-it-might-be-a-blasphemous-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/27\/i-think-that-it-might-be-a-blasphemous-rumor\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think That it Might Be a Blasphemous Rumor,"},"content":{"rendered":"
At least, there is symmetry.<\/span>
<\/span>
Zathras<\/a> is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n

but <\/a>I think that God has a sick sense of humor<\/a>,
and when I die, I expect to find him laughing:<\/p>\n

In a bizarre twist, James Heselden, owner of the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter, died Sunday morning in a Segway-related mishap — just before the scheduled release of a study suggesting injuries related to the vehicles may be on the rise.<\/p>\n

According to a witness report, Heselden, 62, apparently fell off a 30-foot cliff into a river while riding a Segway near his home in West Yorkshire, UK. Police found Heselden’s body and a Segway personal transporter in the river. He was prounced dead at the scene and foul play is not suspected, West Yorkshire Police told reporters.<\/p>\n

A short statement posted on the Segway company website noted that Heselden “died in a tragic accident.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that I have commented before on the tremendous suckitude that is the Segway<\/a>, and I do understand that this is a deep personal life for Heselden’s family, but this is just plain freaky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least, there is symmetry.Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But\u2026 but I think that God has a sick sense of humor,and when I die, I expect to find him laughing: In a bizarre twist, James Heselden, owner of the company …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}