80 Year old Man drives wheelchair on autobahn

[Champ]

TRUCK drivers in Germany were shocked to find themselves sharing a busy motorway with an 80-year-old pensioner travelling at extremely low speeds in a wheelchair, authorities said on Tuesday.

"He wanted to go shopping at a service area up the road from his home," said a spokeswoman for police in the eastern town of Goerlitz.
"He took to the hard shoulder in an electric wheelchair capable of speeds of between 6-10 km/h."

Several passing truckers alerted police, who were on hand to pick the man up when he turned off the road connecting the eastern city of Dresden and the town of Bautzen.

From there he was taken back to the nursing home several kilometres away from which he set off on his hazardous outing.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16064977-13762,00.html

[MissB]

1. Hazardous outing doesn't quite cover it.

Death wish?

[stlsaxman]

2. Right on!

you go, bo-eeeee!