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R6's do not make good hood ornaments

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:00 am
by orionburn

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:32 am
by FZRDude
Yup that's crazy and I'm glad the rider was able to walk away.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:59 am
by dragracer1951
Man...that happened in Shoreline a month or so ago...
Turned out that some bystanders stopped the guy and held him for the police.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:45 pm
by pacer
I remember a story a couple of years ago with this happening to a guy on a superhawk. In this story the guy didn't go down. He went for a ride looking at the guy saying "stop!" as he was stuck in the grill. When the guy finally stopped the guy on the superhawk and all of his friend beat the snot out of the driver.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:57 pm
by FZRDude
pacer wrote:I remember a story a couple of years ago with this happening to a guy on a superhawk. In this story the guy didn't go down. He went for a ride looking at the guy saying "stop!" as he was stuck in the grill. When the guy finally stopped the guy on the superhawk and all of his friend beat the snot out of the driver.
Now that would be an interesting story....

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:56 pm
by haunter
I heard a story like that about a coworker who got hit.

since the cop knew him he got off for it, basicalyl told the guy that rear ended him to get the f*ck outta here

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:33 am
by barneyfzr600
I thought Bay Area drivers were nuts! Sure glad the rider wasn't injured badly.

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:03 am
by orionburn
And I thought the R6 story was crazy...this is REALLY crazy:



Article published Jun 7, 2007
Semi-truck takes man and wheelchair for a ride down Red Arrow Highway

Tribune Staff Report

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.

"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.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pb ... /706070318

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:38 pm
by pacer
Better range, and more power than the electric chairs he was used to. :P