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« on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 12:55:27 »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6732003.stm

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A wheelchair user has been taken for a high-speed ride along a US highway after his handlebars became tangled up in the front grille of a lorry.
The back of Ben Carpenter's wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station.

The driver was completely unaware that he had a new passenger, kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt.

Passing motorists told police, who found the man unhurt - but still attached to the front of the truck.

Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said Mr Carpenter had told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda.

The lorry reached speeds of 50mph (80km/h) as it drove down the Red Arrow Highway.

After several miles the driver pulled over at the depot of a trucking company where police then told him about the man on his front end.

He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said.

"It's fast, I know that," Ben Carpenter told local Wood TV.

"I was probably thinking that he [the driver] is going to keep going, not stop anywhere, go 50-60 miles somewhere".

"I mean I would have been dead way before that," he added."


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« Reply #1 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 13:06:19 »

:shock:  :|  Smiley  Cheesy  
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 13:19:20 »



How long before Johny Knoxsville trys it?
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 15:07:15 »

I saw this earlier. Pure ace!

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"it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda.


 
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 15:45:09 »

Reminded me of Nordberg getting trapped under those vehicles on Naked Gun 2 1/2.
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 15:51:53 »

anyone else see that chinese man get hit by that bus?
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 16:15:55 »

Saw that earlier on the news. Pretty funny really  Shocked
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 16:56:10 »

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Reminded me of Nordberg getting trapped under those vehicles on Naked Gun 2 1/2.


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« Reply #8 on: Friday, June 8, 2007, 17:28:43 »

Amazing!
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