A disabled man was taken for a 50mph ride along a US highway after his wheelchair got jammed in the grille of a lorry.

The back of the 21-year-old man's wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station, Michigan State Police said.The truck driver drove off, completely unaware that he had a new passenger.

Other motorists raised the alarm and used their mobile phones to call police. "You are not going to believe this, but there is a semi pushing a guy in a wheelchair on Red Arrow Highway," one caller said.

After four miles, the driver pulled over at a truck stop where police caught up and told him about the man on his front end. He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said

The man was unhurt - but still attached to the front of the truck. He had been kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt. Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said he told them "it was quite a ride", and only complained that he had spilled his soda.

Moaning git.  He's probably still hanging around the services trying to get a lift back.

What do you think?


Bill finally thought things were getting out of hand...