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Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: Whits 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."


Fucking hell  :twisted:


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: STFCBird on Friday, June 8, 2007, 13:06:19
:shock:  :|  :)  :D  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: Ralphy on Friday, June 8, 2007, 13:19:20
:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

How long before Johny Knoxsville trys it?


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: Give us an S 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.


 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: janaage on Friday, June 8, 2007, 15:45:09
Reminded me of Nordberg getting trapped under those vehicles on Naked Gun 2 1/2.


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: STFCBird on Friday, June 8, 2007, 15:51:53
anyone else see that chinese man get hit by that bus?


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: reeves4england on Friday, June 8, 2007, 16:15:55
Saw that earlier on the news. Pretty funny really  :o


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: Matchworn Shirts on Friday, June 8, 2007, 16:56:10
Quote from: "janaage"
Reminded me of Nordberg getting trapped under those vehicles on Naked Gun 2 1/2.


 :goodpost:


Title: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
Post by: Red81 on Friday, June 8, 2007, 17:28:43
Amazing!