Posted on 06/07/2007 9:38:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
PAW PAW, Mich. — Why did the 21-year-old cross the road?
Benjamin Carpenter, 21, was crossing a Michigan highway in his wheelchair when he became stuck in a semitrailer's grille and pushed for miles before the unknowing driver was pulled over, police said on Thursday.
Carpenter escaped unharmed, saying, "It was quite a ride," police said.
Carpenter was attempting to cross on Wednesday when the light turned green and his wheelchair became hooked onto the front grille of the truck, which reached 50 mph during the 4-mile trip down Red Arrow Highway, Michigan State Police Trooper Michael Sinke said witnesses reported.
Carpenter was taken to a hospital as a precaution. He had been secured to his wheelchair by a seat belt.
Witnesses reported that the light turned green, so the truck took off, never seeing the wheelchair in front of him or the fact that it had attached to his front grill. When officers stopped the truck at a private business, Carpenter was in a calm state.
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I wouldn’t consider that particular name for him but I do see the need for “coding” it if I was to use it. Bastard oth, isn’t something to get worked up over especially in the context it was used.
It is in this wierd anti free speech world we live in.
B***h, gay and rainbows use to be acceptable words too.
Not any more and literally folks are being blocked to access here under the guise of “pornographic” or “indecent” sites.
FR is under attack.
This being semi home bound has been my place since 1998 now more than ever homebound and I don’t want to lose this “social” arena.
How would you feel if all you had was Dummie Underground.
You learned enough English to make yourself understood. Keeping yourself alive and doing stuff like protecting the girl with cerebral palsy who kept getting beaten up are more important than grammar.
And something tells me that in that sort of school, the grammar teaching may have been so deficient that it probably would have done you much good to pay attention. Many years ago I volunteered as a teacher’s aide in a kindergarten class in a Washington DC public school. Teacher had a heart of gold and was doing the best she could given that she was a graduate of the DC public schools and some typically horrendous teachers college. But alas, she couldn’t spell some of the words that the kindergarteners were supposed to be learning.
Mom was in the hospital a couple of years ago. Now I see why you say your the worst armchair investigator. Haha
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