Title: "I Don't Like It"
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 08 June, 2007, 03:29:45 PM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 08 June, 2007, 03:29:45 PM
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."
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: Wheelchair man gets highway ride
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Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 June, 2007, 03:33:26 PM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 June, 2007, 03:33:26 PM
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!
I posted that on the link thread- but you're right, it's so magnificent that it deserves a thread of it's own!
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Post by: Mr C on 08 June, 2007, 04:00:01 PM
Post by: Mr C on 08 June, 2007, 04:00:01 PM
Such a good story that.
Link: Yeeehaaa!
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Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 08 June, 2007, 04:05:28 PM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 08 June, 2007, 04:05:28 PM
Bloody-hell, that was quick!
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Post by: johnnystress on 08 June, 2007, 06:17:38 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 08 June, 2007, 06:17:38 PM
I think - i think that the bestest thing i ever seen
sob
:)
sob
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Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 08 June, 2007, 06:21:30 PM
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 08 June, 2007, 06:21:30 PM
Wait till they get the CCTV footage!
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Post by: Roger Godpleton on 08 June, 2007, 08:46:58 PM
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 08 June, 2007, 08:46:58 PM
Thank you all for bringing this into my life.
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Post by: Dark Jimbo on 08 June, 2007, 09:05:21 PM
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 08 June, 2007, 09:05:21 PM
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.
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Post by: Keef Monkey on 08 June, 2007, 09:55:00 PM
Post by: Keef Monkey on 08 June, 2007, 09:55:00 PM
Awesome.