What You Gonna Do When They Run From You?

There’s a Segway shop inside Hudson Homes on 1619 Walnut, just down the street from the Pitch offices, so we couldn’t help but notice a flock of Missouri Highway Patrol troopers getting lessons using the two-wheeled dorkmobiles.

Melissa Graham, a pretty, red-haired Segway tour director, says the Highway Patrol is renting four “units” to zoom around the 2007 Missouri State Fair August 9-19 in Sedalia. The sight of troopers on Segways will likely make a few people drop their funnel cakes and collapse in hysterics.