Semi Truck Takes Man In Wheelchair On Ride Down Highway After His Wheelchair Gets Stuck

[matcom]

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PAW PAW — A 21-year-old man was taken on a wild ride Wednesday afternoon when the wheelchair he was in became attached to the grill of a semitrailer and was taken four miles down a highway at about 50 mph.

The man, whose name police did not release, was not injured. The driver was unaware he was pushing the man, according to a news release from the Michigan State Police.

Authorities began receiving calls about 4 p.m. that the semi was traveling westbound on Red Arrow Highway, just outside of Paw Paw, with the wheelchair.

“You are not going to believe this, (but) there is a semi pushing a guy in a wheelchair on Red Arrow Highway,” an unknown caller told the Michigan State Police.

Police at first believed the calls were pranks. But when troopers responded to the Ralph Moyle Trucking Company at 39269 Red Arrow Highway, where the semi had come to a stop, they noticed the wheelchair with the man sitting in it, still attached.

“It was quite a ride,” the man reportedly told police.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070606/News01/70606040

[RetroLounge]

1. “It was quite a ride,” the man reportedly told police.

Now that is a masterful understatement...

RL

[rug]

2. So is this:

"the wheelchair he was in became attached to the grill of a semitrailer"

[DS1]

3. Now with photo

yikes, I'd be in therapy

[matcom]

4. DAMN!

you know that just HAD to suck!

[Zuiderelle]

5. Good thing the trucker didn't tailgate anyone.

:(

[pagerbear]

6. From the pic it looks like he was strapped into the chair

...which is fortunate!