A tragedy struck on Sunday the 26th. The owner of the fast, convenient Segway has died. “James W. Heselden”, “a British businessman who invented and sold fortification containers for flood control and military protection” it was reported by the police that he died while he was touring his estate on his Segway and plunged off a cliff. “He was 62”
His body was discovered by someone passing by later that Moring. The “passer-by reported seeing a man plummet 30 feet into the River Wharf,”
James W. Heselden, a British businessman who invented and sold fortification containers for flood control and military protection and who owned the company that makes Segway electric scooters, died Sunday after plunging from a cliff in West Yorkshire, the police said, apparently while touring his property on a Segway. He was 62. The police did not say what caused this accident. James W. Heselden “was born in Leeds”. He dropped out school when he was 15 immediately fallowing he worked as a coal miner until he lost his job due to the “miners’ strike” in 1984. With the money he did have an invention that carried him over that was Hesco Bastion, which manufactures the Hesco barriers, he invented that in 1990.
These barriers were “galvanized-steel mesh baskets rising to chest height that can be filled with dirt — were originally developed as flood control devices, and have been used in places like New Orleans and Iowa. Light, portable and easy to assemble, they have also replaced sandbags as a feature of virtually every defensive barrier deployed by coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and are standard equipment for NATO.” That was just the beginning of his success recently before his passing he has “appeared on the Sunday Times of London’s list of 1,000 richest people in Britain” he also donated nearly 16 mill to the Leeds Community Foundation just this month if you do the math in his entire life has donated approximately $36 million dollars to organizations. Mr. Heselden was a kind man who will without question be missed. He will be leaving “his wife, Julie; five children, and eight grandchildren.”
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