Terror Ride for Dystrophic
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Like a scene from Speed or the Matrix, a man got the ride of his life when he got hooked to a semi-trailer and was pushed down a highway for several kilometres at 80 mph. But he is not Keanu Reeves. Besides he has muscular dystrophy and is wheelchair-bound. Ben Carpenter thought he would die when his wheelchair handles got lodged on the grilles of the semi-trailer when he was crossing an intersection. His father watched with horror as his son disappeared from view and the wild terrifying nightmare began.
The driver of the trailer was unaware of what was happening. Motorists called police on their cellphones and undercover police officers who happened to be at the scene pulled the trailer over.
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George Michael, the bad boy of British pop, plays a cooler customer than Paris Hilton. While he was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and banned from driving for two years for driving under the influence of drugs, he kept his smiles after appearing from court. He paid the same lip service as Paris Hilton but in a more convincing and remorseful style. He said to reporters: ‘I had done something really wrong in putting other people at risk.’ He immediately defended himself by saying in the next breath: ‘In reality I have been sentenced on the basis of unfit driving through tiredness and prescription medicines, which I fully accept responsibility for.’
