Ode To The Segway Scooter
How’s this for a corporate nightmare? Every Segway Personal Transporter ever manufactured has been recalled due to a “software glitch in the scooters that can make riders fall.”
This recall calls out for a limerick, don’t you think? So here’s my Ode To The Segway Scooter:
The maker of scooters called Segway
Has recalled them from road, walk, and hedgeway.
Their software’s quite galling.
It’s prone to cause falling.
Now lawyers have fresh “we allege” prey.
[tags]Segway scooters, Personal Transporters, Riding Scooters, Scooter Defects, Software Bugs, Product Recalls, Money Limerick, Business Limerick, Product Liability Humor, Lawsuit Humor, Personal Injury, Legal Humor, Computer Humor, Technology Humor, Litigation Humor[/tags]
[...] or even in the world of the sublime and ridiculous (as Mad Kane shares with us in “Ode to the Segway Scooter“): The maker of scooters called Segway Has recalled them from road, walk, and hedgeway. Their software’s quite galling. It’s prone to cause falling. Now lawyers have fresh “we allege” prey. [...]
The Carnival of Satire (#47)…
Ahoy mateys, and welcome to yer Carnival of Satire, the pirate edition. We be stretching Talk Like a Pirate Day into a whole week, and begad, we may just make it a month.
Jonathan Dresner’s blog be called Easily Distracted, but only a focused…
[...] When it comes to poetry, we pirates like it doggerel style, and Madeleine Begun Kane has an Ode To The Segway Scooter that tickled our fancy, just fine, thankee. [...]
[...] Madeleine Begun Kane presents Ode To The Segway Scooter posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog, a humor piece on the recall of the segway scooter. [...]