Man in wheelchair takes ride on semi's grill

1 posted on 06/07/2007 2:12:52 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt

To: glock rocks; B4Ranch; NormsRevenge; WestCoastGal; NYTexan; steveegg; SouthTexas

I love dumb truckdriver tricks

BOINK!

2 posted on 06/07/2007 2:14:43 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt ( The key to happiness... excess in moderation.)

3 posted on 06/07/2007 2:15:10 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th

With regenerative braking on that thing he could have gotten a free charge on the battery!

4 posted on 06/07/2007 2:16:15 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)

I couldn’t not ping you to something like this!

5 posted on 06/07/2007 2:16:25 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt ( The key to happiness... excess in moderation.)

Wow!

He’s a Pepper!

6 posted on 06/07/2007 2:16:27 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)

Looks like Dr Pepper can take advantage of this in advertising.

8 posted on 06/07/2007 2:16:59 PM PDT by FoxInSocks

I heard about this on the radio earlier, unbelievable! Thank goodness that guy wasn’t hurt.

9 posted on 06/07/2007 2:18:05 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)

He should have raised his hands so the driver could see them over the hood. Then again, he would have looked like a kid on a coaster to other motorists, just enjoying the thrill.

Did anyone ask what bugs taste like?

10 posted on 06/07/2007 2:18:09 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)

To: Snoopers-868th

sheesh, I gotta get a wireless laptop for the truck...

11 posted on 06/07/2007 2:18:25 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt ( The key to happiness... excess in moderation.)

WOW! Praise God he is safe! Lucky fella!

12 posted on 06/07/2007 2:18:30 PM PDT by ibheath (I liked America better when the threats to our freedom came exclusively from abroad.)

I think the guy hooked his chair on the grill on purpose.

WHEEEEEEE!!!

13 posted on 06/07/2007 2:19:10 PM PDT by Grig

I beat you buy 30 seconds.

14 posted on 06/07/2007 2:19:14 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)

I never met a grill like you!

15 posted on 06/07/2007 2:19:19 PM PDT by efs111 (Hasta La Vista, Baby!)

16 posted on 06/07/2007 2:19:25 PM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)

Lucky he wasn’t in a manual wheelchair!

17 posted on 06/07/2007 2:24:46 PM PDT by airborne (Airborne - Ranger - Vietnam veteran! Duncan Hunter for President!)

i'm almost afraid to post this.

June 7, 2007, 12:25AM
Motorcyclist looks for good Samaritan trucker

By KEVIN MORAN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

Jeff Blessing's guardian angel drives an 18-wheeler.

On May 25, an unidentified trucker used his rig to shield the Dickinson man from traffic after he wiped out on his motorcycle in the northbound lanes of Interstate 45 near NASA Parkway.

"I was laying in the middle of the freeway taking a nap," said Blessing, referring to the 10:20 a.m. accident in which he struck a vehicle that had slowed or swerved after being hit by a loose tire from another vehicle.

Police said the trucker saw Blessing and maneuvered to block two lanes.

"I believe the trucker did save the guy's life," said Webster police officer Mark Rawls.

But the man, Rawls said, "wasn't directly involved, and he wasn't a witness to the accident so he was able to leave. I ... wasn't able to get his name before he left."

Now Blessing, 24, wants to find the trucker "so we can tell him how grateful we are. I'm just so thankful I got to come home again and see my wife and my little boys."

Blessing was on his way to work at an insurance firm near FM 290 and Loop 610 when the wreck occurred. He remembers only that he was flown to a hospital, and his wife, Dorothy, was called to let her know he wasn't seriously hurt.

Though his motorcycle was destroyed, Blessing was wearing a helmet and leather jacket, which helped limit his injuries to a concussion, sprained shoulders and "road rash."

Rawls said he talked to the trucker briefly: "I told him he really did a good deed because we definitely would have been working a fatality accident if he hadn't done what he did."

kevin.moran@chron.com

19 posted on 06/07/2007 2:29:04 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt ( The key to happiness... excess in moderation.)

One super lucky mofo.

20 posted on 06/07/2007 2:29:06 PM PDT by stevio ((NRA))

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