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Title: Not the best way to take a ride on a truck - even in Michigan....
Post by: Highmac on June 08, 2007, 05:00:46 AM
This item about a man in a wheelchair being carried off on the front of a large truck has made it on to the BBC News website
Title: Not the best way to take a ride on a truck - even in Michigan....
Post by: gunug on June 08, 2007, 05:50:32 AM
I think using the word "lorry" instead of "truck" is one of the better parts of the English spoken over there.  I also think the least the trucking company could do after this near miss is buy the man a softdrink:

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Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said the unidentified man told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda.


I think I went through Paw Paw a number of years ago after taking the car ferry across Lake Michigan!  Thats a nice, well-wooded area to be driven through on the front of a lorry!
Title: Not the best way to take a ride on a truck - even in Michigan....
Post by: Gregg on June 08, 2007, 07:35:30 AM
That's Incredible! (used to be a TV show here)

I thought the only Paw Paw was in Illinois. wink.gif

Anybody know what happened to Maw Maw?
Title: Not the best way to take a ride on a truck - even in Michigan....
Post by: jcarter on June 08, 2007, 07:39:56 AM
Saw that on the news this morning, scary ride!  
I remember the time my little brother threw his brand new football to me and it went way over my head and bounced off a stone wall, and up onto the road and right into the huge grocery delivery truck.  Luckily the driver saw it and stopped, pulled it out of the grill, lectured us, tossed it back to us and went on his way.
Jane
Title: Not the best way to take a ride on a truck - even in Michigan....
Post by: kimmer on June 09, 2007, 09:10:30 PM
I think they owe him a case of soda and a lifetime supply of new tires for his wheelchair!

He's lucky to be alive.
Title: Not the best way to take a ride on a truck - even in Michigan....
Post by: Gregg on June 11, 2007, 07:39:51 AM
Reminds me of the time in Colorado when I saw a logging truck on I-70, loaded to the hilt, and a dog scrambling around on top. I always wondered if the dog fell off, and if the driver knew the dog was up there. dntknw.gif