Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

  • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
    173·
    7 months ago

    I think Segwayed is better because James Heseldon, inventor of the Segway, died after riding a Segway off a cliff.

    Edit: apologies! Apparently he didn’t invent the Segway, just owned the company

    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net
      2·
      7 months ago

      Didn’t own the company just the sole British distribution rights

      edit to add: He lived on the south coast, used and enjoyed the product, and was moving out of the way for a pedestrian on a narrow path and went backwards over the cliff edge. A tragedy that doesn’t belong in this thread.

      • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Not to be confused with segued, which is ‘to move easily and without interruption from one piece of music, part of a story, subject, or situation to another’.