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Quite A Ride!

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Jun 29, 2002
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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.​
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6732003.stm
Sounds like a lot of fun... :D
 
Clearly the man in the wheel chair is mentally handicapped.

No person with all their faculties would describe that ride as the man did.

Kinda reminds me of something I'd see on an episode of Jackass.
 
While I was out on my lunch today a wheelchair-bound gentleman asked me to give him a bit of a push across the road, as he was having trouble negotiating some wonky paving at the crossing.

Who knows, perhaps I saved him from the same fate as his American counterpart?
 
Daveway said:
Clearly the man in the wheel chair is mentally handicapped.

No person with all their faculties would describe that ride as the man did.

Kinda reminds me of something I'd see on an episode of Jackass.
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Or perhaps he just has a sense of humour and that perspective? I know I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it at the time but looking back at it, it must seem quite amusing.
 
FreightlinerLogo.jpg


For those who don't know, Freightliner is a manufacturer of trucks. A very popular truck here in California. Sometimes the brand Freightliner is synonymous with trucks, much like the brand Kleenex is synonymous with tissue.
 
according to Google Images, these two are dolly:

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Edit:

holy crap. that sheep has blue eyes!

all the sheep i ever saw (used to live on a property with sheep) had brown/hazel eyes.

so it's blue eyes, with "blonde" "hair".

omg it's hitler's arian dream child!!
 
MACDRIVE said:
FreightlinerLogo.jpg


For those who don't know, Freightliner is a manufacturer of trucks. A very popular truck here in California. Sometimes the brand Freightliner is synonymous with trucks, much like the brand Kleenex is synonymous with tissue.
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I think "Mack" (ie: Mack Trucks) are more synonymous than Freightliner. Never heard a pop culture reference to Freightliners, that's for sure.


pengu said:
whats more, you americans call about a dozen different types of vehicles a "truck".
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Very true, but that doesn't change the fact. ;) Sometimes, if the "truck" is very big and has 18 wheels (or appears to have approximately that many), we may call it an "18 wheeler". However, we usually do stick with "truck".

Macaddicttt said:
I'm from California and I've never heard of Freightliner before. I also would be completely confused if you asked for a hand truck. That, my friend, is a dolly.
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"Hand truck"? He must be making this up. It's weird for someone to troll a thread on wheelchairs and trucks/lorrys", no? ;)
 
pengu said:
whats more, you americans call about a dozen different types of vehicles a "truck".
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2 wheel dolly
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Semi aka Tractor Trailer
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Truk Lagoon
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skate board truck
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Pick up truck
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So there. It's better then this English language we have. Maybe it's all England's fault.:D
 
pengu said:
...holy crap. that sheep has blue eyes!

all the sheep i ever saw (used to live on a property with sheep)...
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"used to live on a property with sheep" yeah right, nice try at a save, but we all know what you're thinking...pervert.
 
He must have been absolutely bloody terrified. Imagine if the wheelchair had fallen of, or the truck pulled up close to a wall or something :eek:
 
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