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Thread ID: 79980	2007-06-07 21:06:00	Semi driver involved in 'hit and roll' doesn't hear wheelchair guy shout "Timmeh!"	netchicken (4843)	PC World Chat

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557027	2007-06-07 21:06:00	. . . while stuck to grill . . . hehehe (pretty tasteless title really but I couldn't resist it) . . . 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 . . . . Quote: 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 . . stuffucanuse . com/xmb/viewthread . php?tid=4038" target="_blank">xmb . stuffucanuse . com	netchicken (4843)
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