"I Don't Like It"

[Adrian Bamforth]

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."

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6732003.stm" target="_blank">Wheelchair man gets highway ride  

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[Richmond Clements]

Bah!
I posted that on the link thread- but you're right, it's so magnificent that it deserves a thread of it's own!

[Mr C]

Such a good story that.

Link: http://eastbound.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">Yeeehaaa!

[Adrian Bamforth]

Bloody-hell, that was quick!

[johnnystress]

I think - i think that the bestest thing i ever seen

sob

:)

[Adrian Bamforth]

Wait till they get the CCTV footage!

[Roger Godpleton]

Thank you all for bringing this into my life.

[Dark Jimbo]

I laughed for nearly ten minutes when I saw this on the news earlier today. It was made even better by the newsreaders' deadly serious approach.

[Keef Monkey]

Awesome.