Big rig accidentally pushes a guy in a wheelchair for 4 miles

dont mean to be insensitive, but...did you see the kid?

 

First of all, this is freakin' hilarious. Especially because it's a happy ending and no one got hurt.

But didn't anyone try to stop the truck? I would've pulled ahead of the truck, got in front of him and tried to flag him over. At least give this guy some clue that something is wrong. But now I'm thinking if he tried to pull over in the emergency lane, and w/ the unevenness of the road, the wheelchair may have dislodged and really turn dangerous. Oh well, all's well that end's well.

 

That makes it even more brilliant.

Would you have been as convinced, if you saw Arnold?

OK. That brings up a funny image.

ARRRARRRARRGGHHHARRAARRRGGHH!!!!

 

Picturing this scenario in my head, i just cant stop laughing. All i see are kids in cars driving by waving at him. I wonder if he used the reverse button on his wheelchair to try to stop the big rig. I wonder if he took a sip of his soda pop while being pushed along. Just looking at that guy, u know that'll be the best 5 min of his life...

someone had to have taken a pic while on the road....

 

Assuming he calls it soda pop.

 

He should be thankful.

That story will get him laid, fo' shizzle. At the very least a lap dance.

 

After the fact, this is the coolest story. Had it turned out any likely way, it would have horrible. But turning out the way it did, the guy got have a great experience.

 

If Jackass 3 gets made, I think something like this might make it in there...

 

I hope so and that the ending isn't anywhere near as good as this one.

 

This is tragically funny.

 

I'm sorry to admit looking at the picture makes me laugh even harder. Poor guy.

 

http://eastbound.ytmnd.com/

 

The link has been updated. More details:

PAW PAW, Mich. - Ben Carpenter got the ride of a lifetime when his electric wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for several miles at about 50 mph.

His father, Donald Carpenter, was incredulous when police called to tell him his 21-year-old son was OK after the wild ride.

"I said, 'What happened?'" Donald Carpenter recalled Thursday.

He said his son had started to cross Wednesday afternoon at an intersection in Paw Paw, about 140 miles west of Detroit, where the truck had stopped for a red light. The light changed to green while Carpenter was still in front of the semi, which started moving forward.

The truck bumped into the side of the wheelchair, which then started turning forward, its handles becoming lodged in the grille, the father said. The wild ride had started.

"He's so low that the truck driver couldn't see him, and the truck headed out," he said.

The wheelchair, with Carpenter strapped in it, ended up being pushed by the truck as it sped down the Red Arrow Highway. Police said the wheelchair was pushed about four miles, but Donald Carpenter said it was about half that.

Ben Carpenter said while all of this was going on, he seriously considered the possibility that he might not make it before the truck came to a complete halt.

"I was probably thinking that this is going to keep going and not stop anywhere, 50 or 60 miles somewhere," he told Grand Rapids television station WOOD.

"It was pretty scary," he told WDIV-TV of Detroit.

The bizarre sight caught the attention of motorists, many of whom called 911 on their cell phones. A pair of undercover police officers who happened to be driving in the opposite direction at the time saw what was happening, did a quick U-turn, followed the truck to its business and informed the disbelieving driver, Donald Carpenter said.

‘Not a scratch’
His son escaped injury.

"He's fine," Donald Carpenter said. "Not a scratch. He was basically just scared."

Ben Carpenter, who has muscular dystrophy, lives with his parents in nearby Kalamazoo. He had gone to Paw Paw to ride on a trail with a medical aide who was on a bicycle, his father said.

The aide had fallen slightly behind Carpenter by the time he was crossing the intersection and, because of the angle, didn't see him being pushed down the road. She had no idea what had happened to him.

"She was frantic and then a driver at the intersection started honking his horn and said he's attached to the front of the truck," Donald Carpenter said. The aide then used her cell phone to call for help.

The father said being pushed down the road by the truck burned most of the rubber off the tires of the wheelchair, but otherwise didn't damage it. The tires were replaced Thursday morning, in time for his son to use the wheelchair this weekend at a muscular dystrophy camp.

"It's a very bad story that ended very well," he said. "We're just thrilled that he's still around."

 

damn you DonnyMost i am going to officially go to hell now I cant stop watching and laughing at this.


i need to watch that movie again

 

I can picture some Hick get out of the trailer with a confused look on his face. "The hells in my grill?"

 

**** far boa, what ja go gettin in ma grell fer. Nah um behind scheduuuule.

That video is awesome.

 

Driver's employer is praying they don't get sued.

 

No harm, no fowl.

I don't blame the driver. He can't get out of his truck and check his grill at every stop.

 

Someone needs to make an OWNED sign out of that pic.

 

Here are the 911 calls:

http://www.break.com/index/truck-pushes-wheelchair-for-miles.html

Apparently not that funny when it was actually happening..