Paw Paw – A wheelchair-bound man went on the ride of his life Wednesday after visiting a gas station in Van Buren County. Calls began pouring in to the Paw Paw post of the Michigan State Police around 4:00 p.m. The first call came in with a woman telling dispatchers, “You are not going to believe this, there is a semi- truck pushing a guy in a wheel chair on Red Arrow Highway!”
Troopers and officers found a 21-year-old man un-harmed as he sat in his wheelchair, its handles still lodged in the truck’s front grill. Police say the 21-year-old man was un-harmed and unfazed by the incident. The young man was quoted as saying, “It was quite a ride.”
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they were just starting a convoy….
hums, C.W. McCall’s “Convoy”
You know your people are getting fatter when you need a semi just to pull their weelchairs.
As panicked as those 911 callers were, it’s a surprise the man got any help at all. Jeebus!
Good Grief !! I wonder how wet the man’s pants were when the troopers rescued him, and how bad that trucker must feel.
Bet he has some strange dreams tonight. Bad way to hitchhike.
Oh, jeezus, now kids all over the country will start buying wheelchairs and doing this for fun.
Oh, jeezus, now kids all over the country will start buying wheelchairs and doing this for fun.
Okay, let’s all head over to YouTube…..
J/P=?
I live less than 15 minutes from where this happened and I never heard anything about it! I was even driving out red arrow highway last night to a friend’s graduation open house!
Yikes, a little too close to home to appreciate the humor
Then the young man commented “WHEEEEEEEEEEE! FUN! I LIKE TATOR TOTS!”
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
I bet he was belted into the wheelchair. that musta been a hell of a ride!
I bet he was belted into the wheelchair
Actually, on the very first report I heard on this, he actually was.
Having known some quadraplegics, I know that’s sometimes necessary.
J/P=?
Timmy RIDES!
Wheeee! Again!
He says he’s never been a religious person, until now. He says, “I’m not, but I, uh, somebody was watching over me.”
Wonder which one… Allah, the Christian God, any of the Hindu Gods, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or perhaps Xenu himself? Hey, this is the 21st century… we’ve got a God just for you!
Anyway, this guy certainly got the ride of his life… no ride in an amusement park can even get close.
#12, Jägermeister
Anyway, this guy certainly got the ride of his life… no ride in an amusement park can even get close.
I’m not sure aerobatics in an open-cockpit Stearman comes too close — at least in an airplane you can control where you’re going!
The other truckers are jealous because they don’t have as pretty a hood ornament.
But, c’mon, how does someone get his wheelchair stuck in front of a truck? The kid had a red shirt on, why didn’t the driver see him before pulling out? To get stuck like that the wheelchair would have to be right in front of the truck and either moving in the same direction or not moving at all. The kid said he was crossing in front of the truck at a stop light when the truck took off. If so then the truck should have tipped the chair over. That is a Freightliner, they have good visibility in front of the engines and can see very well above the fenders.
Something about this is making me a little suspicious.
Come on Mr. Fusion. Are you trying to say that a quadriplegic kid in a wheelchair set up a stunt like this? That sounds pretty far-fetched to me.
That said, it WAS a pretty freaky chain of events.
Yea I agree with Mr Fusion, this story seems fishy at best. Anyone knows the guy bound to the wheel chair was likely wanting to die anyway and all those pesky callers and God just thwarted him. To answer the question of someone above, his pants probably had feces in it, nothing out of the ordinary though.
A natural reaction would be to turn away from a collision. That may be how he ended up in that position.
#17, yanker
I do have a Indiana CDL with “A” endorsement and yes, I do know something about trucks. If you think he couldn’t be seen then you don’t drive. The kid didn’t pop up from a manhole. He apparently crossed the street on a green light.
Your 10′ blind spot is directly in front of the radiator to a point on the ground. In front of the fenders, the blind spot is about 3′ out to a point on the ground, a little more on the right hand side. The peripheral view is very good in these new Freightliners.
The top of the hood is 5′ from the ground at the front and the driver is sitting another 3′ higher then that. The kid looks to be just under 4′ high in his chair. He would have had to get in front of the truck and park it there in order to not be seen by the driver.
Even in a motorized chair, there would have been insufficient reaction time for him to turn away if he was less than 15′ away. Depending upon load etc., it would have only taken 2-3 seconds to cover that distance. Most of that time the kid would have been visible to the driver.
Thats funny as hell I wish it was me on the front of that
Oh my, this is the first time I’ve seen this. Absolutely unbelievable. It’s something you’d only see in a movie!
Holly!! That must of been quite the trip:)
This is just insane. Wow. Talk about a freak accident. Can’t believe how this could happen to begin with.
That’s insane. Luckily everyone is alright!