Semi-truck takes man and wheelchair for a ride
 

June 07. 2007 6:59AM
Semi-truck takes man and wheelchair for a ride down Red Arrow Highway

Tribune Staff Report

PAW PAW, Mich. -- A 21-year-old man was taken on a wild ride Wednesday afternoon when the wheelchair he was in became attached to the grille of a semi-truck 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 Co. 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.

"The man spilled his soda pop, but he wasn't upset," Sgt. Kathy Morton of the Michigan State Police said.

Police said the man was unharmed and unfazed by the incident.

The driver was in disbelief when he stepped out of the semi and saw what he had picked up along the way, police said.

"When he saw us, he was like, 'What's going on?'" Morton said.

An investigation revealed the driver had pulled out of a local gas station when the man in the wheelchair pulled in front of the semi, according to police. His wheelchair somehow became lodged by its handles to the front grille.

"Thank God the semi didn't go on (Interstate) 94," Morton said.

he should do his required walk around before getting in the cab and that wouldn't have happened.


LOLOLOL

That's craziness!

Sounds like he might of and the guy got in front of the truck as he was getting in to drive off.

I call bullshit...plain and simple...bullshit.

There's a pic of that guy in his wheelchair attached to the truck in a dutch newspaper....let me get the link as I can't easily copy/paste the link to the pic

http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/6...wd.html?p=10,1

lol click the link above and rofl :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

pretty fucking funny...the maker of that chair must really make a good product....seen this story in a bunch of places already so i think it's actually real but after all the bs with that giant hog even tho i've seen it im not sure i believe it

ps...there are 911 tapes of the calls here:thumbsup

http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...0366/1001/NEWS

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh...Okay, what the fuck!! How the hell has this happened more than once...damn that was funny opening up that link though!! :1orglaugh

Listend to call 2 on there, that elderly lady was toooooo much!!!:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I bet that chair burned some rubber on those tiny front wheels and that guy
must have had a 3 course meal on bugs while shitting bricks racing along the
highway with a 40 ton truck up his ass.......he'll be high on adrenaline for the
next few months.

Imagine the look on the faces of the people seeing this driving in the opposite
direction.....they'd go....what the fuck.....I'm hallucinating......lol

Haha bet that made his day, although the thought you could fly off at any second and get crushed but have been pretty pants-shitting.