Taken for a ride

David Wulff

Straight from the pages of 'I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes' book: 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. 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.

That is one lucky man! :omg:

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Michael Sadlon

Fun :-D

Dave Kreskowiak

'tis a wacky state I live in, isn't it? We just bolt wheelchairs to the front of semi's and drive 'em around for fun!

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Shog9 0

I'll buy the 50Mph wheelchair story, but don't believe for a second that there are vehicles called "lorry" in Michigan... :rolleyes:

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

Sathesh Sakthivel

:cool::cool:

Regards, Satips.:rose:

Rajesh R Subramanian

That was the ride of his life :-D

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Stuart Dootson

Just a bit of localisation for us Brits, I'm sure - it is off the BBC website after all - what would you call it (they'd call it a wagon where I live, but I'm not sure all the people round here realise we don't use horses any more).

Shog9 0

We'd call it a "truck" or "semi" or possibly "semi truck". Maybe "tractor trailer", but probably not.

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...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

Lost User

So he passed just in front of an 18 wheeler?

The tigress is here :-D

Brady Kelly

I'm busy whiling away time with Hubbard's Mission Earth, and was very surprised to read text in which a US author uses the word lorry to refer to lorries.

Dan Neely

He was a crazy whacked out cult leader. He doesn't count.

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Brady Kelly

I don't care about your opinion of the man, I'm simply citing the use of the word lorry in American literature, much of which probably comes from crazy, whacked out people, if not genuine cult leaders.

Brady Kelly

Yes, I assume this happened while the 18 wheeler was stationary.

Marcus J Smith

Shog9 wrote:

We'd call it a "truck" or "semi" or possibly "semi truck". Maybe "tractor trailer", but probably not.

or the big scary things that try to run over me when I stop too fast...:~

CleaKO

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