Wheelchair man gets pushed along the highway

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:26 am

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

A man got his wheelchair jammed in the grill of a truck, which then drove him at 50MPH down the highway!

Sylvester · Post by **Sylvester** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:49 am

Quite an experience. Maybe at depth he enjoyed it regardless the fear.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:47 am

Some people will do anything for a <A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=8zCFkhYJ_nY">free ride</A>.

djm

Sliabh Luachra · Post by **Sliabh Luachra** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:37 am

You'd think the screaming and sobbing might have clued the driver into the situation.

Mark

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:17 am

Sliabh Luachra wrote:You'd think the screaming and sobbing might have clued the driver into the situation.

Mark

I dunno, those trucks are pretty loud; the noise from my Volkswagen Rabbit diesel would have probably been enough to drown him out.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:20 am

Sliabh Luachra wrote:You'd think the screaming and sobbing might have clued the driver into the situation.

Mark

He'd never be heard over the country and western.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:42 am

chrisoff wrote:
Sliabh Luachra wrote:You'd think the screaming and sobbing might have clued the driver into the situation.

Mark
He'd never be heard over the country and western.

Or maybe the driver thought it was background wailing and moaning and mourning for the singers lost dog, broken chevy and cheatin' wife.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:38 am

You know, I think a few of my younger airmen would pay good money to try that. Some of the older ones might too.

HampshireWhistler · Post by **HampshireWhistler** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:24 pm

I would have spilled some other fluid besides my soda I think.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:11 pm

HampshireWhistler wrote:I would have spilled some other fluid besides my soda I think.

My thoughts precisely!

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:18 pm

This is the third time today I've thoroughly edited
a comment because this is a family forum. Arg.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:55 pm

This happened just a few miles from my homestead. Wonderful Michigan.

If you knew the town of Paw Paw your first reaction would be it was a stunt preceeded by the words, "Hold my beer...watch this..."

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:11 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:This happened just a few miles from my homestead. Wonderful Michigan.

If you knew the town of Paw Paw your first reaction would be it was a stunt preceeded by the words, "Hold my beer...watch this..."

and then his cousin saying, "Bet ya I can do that, too!"

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:10 pm

I just can't think of any way this could have happened accidentally. He had to have been directly in front of the truck and going in the same direction (not passing in front of the truck, as the article suggests)...that either the driver didn't see him or he didn't see/hear/feel the truck coming up behind him is hard to believe. If he'd turned to the side to try to avoid the truck, it would have crushed him, not scooped up his wheelchair handles.

Redwolf