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[Guest Jung]

Wheelchair man gets highway ride

 

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 the 21-year-old man's wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station, Michigan state police said.

 

The truck driver drove off, completely unaware that he had a new passenger.

 

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

 

He had been kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt.

 

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

 

The truck 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.

 

 

From the BBC website

 

Just brilliant isn't it?

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

That is just classic... funniest thing I have read in ages :lol

[Guest Reno]

XD almost as funny as another story I read a while ago on BBC about a bear that had escaped.

[DC 536]

I read that in the Metro on the bus to work. The picture they ran with it showed him still stuck in the grille of the lorry.

[Nimf 324]

Oh my god that's fantastic!!!

[Guest Kanenite]

HAHA! That's amazing, seeing it would be even better.

[Guest big pau hoolinator]

I have found

 

1. an interview with the kid - http://video.woodtv.com/inc/player.php?video_id=6934

 

2. some 911 calls that people made - http://woodtv.triton.net/news/phoner/Wheelchair%20911multiple.mp3

[Guest Craig]

http://eastbound.ytmnd.com/

[Guest Redneck Messiah]

I couldn't imagine seeing that going down the highway past me if I was driving :lol I could see a kid telling their parent, "Mommy, that's one big bug stuck on that guy's truck!".

 

Just glad the poor guy wasn't hurt. I couldn't imagine how horrible I would feel if I was the driver of the truck but I think I would have been paying a little more attention for those type of things. Reminds me of some cartoons when they show sombody stuck to a grill after some reckless driving.

[Nimf 324]

I couldn't imagine seeing that going down the highway past me if I was driving :lol I could see a kid telling their parent, "Mommy, that's one big bug stuck on that guy's truck!".

Or a kid trying to say "Mum, there's a guy stuck on that truck" Mum replying "yes dear, of course there is".

[Guest MojoPogo]

All thats missing is the Benny Hill theme tune.......

[Joey Asbo 45]

I bet it was Frank Spencer filming a new series of Some Mothers Do 'Av Em