I hope this causes the price to bottom out long enough for me to buy one... But it is a tragedy. He didn't invent it, he just owned the company from what I read.
No, because that isn't irony, it's just bad luck. (What IS ironic is writing an entire song about one word and getting the definition of the word wrong).
She had one ironic phrase in the song that actually contained two ironies: "Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly/ He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye/ He waited his whole damn life to take that flight/And as the plane crashed down he thought, Well, isn't this nice?"
I have a Segway, and I have a theory about how he drove off the cliff. If you're riding parallel to an incline, you're OK so long as the incline is below a certain angle. If it gets too steep, the Segway TURNS DOWNHILL! Once this started to happen, it was probably too late to stop. Don't ride a Segway near a cliff!