Gettting the shaft
From the
Sydney Herald Sun:
Wheelchair joyride ends in lift plunge
A man man who took a wheelchair for a joyride was seriously injured when it tipped and he plunged down a lift shaft in southwest Germany.
Police in the town of Neckargemuend said the able-bodied 20-year-old man was sitting in the chair while another man pushed it at high speed along an 11th-floor corridor at a trade-training school yesterday evening.
When the chair hurtled into the closed door of a lift, the lower bolts of the door broke and the chair tipped forward, catapulting the man through the gap, Deutsche Presse -Agentur reported.
The man fell 12m onto the roof of the lift car.
His injuries were severe but not critical, police said.
An inquiry is to be held into why the lift doors gave way.
Yikes! - At least he had the roof of the cab to land on and not the cement base of the shaft. Soften his impact a bit.
Posted by DaveH at July 22, 2007 7:04 PM