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At least we agree on what your current chair is.

Good luck. I hope your new chair comes soon.

Only one little issue with that werbert

the reason is plastered on my front page of my website http://www.alinssite.info

blog post below...



Powerchair delayed
January 11, 2008 11:21:17 PM

The above humorous image is what my mind painted today around 11 in the morning, and is what i just finished making in Adobe Photoshop. Why, we decided to call the powerchair dealer to check order progress hoping that it about ready to ship out. WRONG! The insurance company froze the process due to the fact that the forms are more than three months old and they want new forums. Both the powerchair dealer and my doctor got notice that they need to re-file their forms on Wednesday this week. The doctor rushed his forms back to the powerchair dealer today, only two days after receipt of them. We do not know how long the delay will be, but we are sure it will add at least another week onto the wait.

Note: IVC-080891 is not a valid order number, the real order number is secret.

I love powerchairs!

Also Strapples, I must say, you look quite handsome in your pictures if I do say so myself...

You gotta be kidding me IdahoRose?

you into it too?

finally found someone on WP with one of my interests!

Well... I'm interested in powerchairs because you're interested in them.

Hehe, IdahoRose. Well thats fine by me. Thats good to hear

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ALAMO TOWNSHIP -- His wild wheelchair ride in June brought Ben Carpenter instant fame and the kind of attention usually reserved for rock stars and athletes. It also made for a year the Carpenter family will never forget.

``Everything for the most part has pretty much died down with Ben and the crazy ride, though he's gotten pretty used to being called `the wheelchair guy,''' said Carpenter's father, Don. ``People who know Ben still bring it up when they see them.''

Ben Carpenter, 21, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, became an instant celebrity on June 6 when his wheelchair handles became lodged in the grille of a tractor-semitrailer. The semi hit the wheelchair as Carpenter was trying to cross Red Arrow Highway at Hazen Street in Paw Paw. For two miles, Carpenter held on for life while the chair and truck reached speeds of up to 50 mph. The semi eventually pulled into a trucking facility, where the driver discovered his passenger and the wheelchair still lodged by its handles in the truck's grille.

Don Carpenter said he underestimated the attention the incident would attract.

``My gosh, we counted more than 200 calls; the phone was ringing from radio stations and newspapers all over the world. ... We never did get back to all of them,'' he said.

Representatives from ``Late Show with David Letterman'' called, but an opportunity for Ben to appear on the TV program never materialized. He did, however, go with his dad to see members from the reality-TV show ``American Choppers.'' Carpenter said he and his son were given VIP privileges and that the show's cast autographed his son's shirt.

Don Carpenter said the story appealed to many because his son lived to tell about it.

``The circumstances were unusual to begin with,'' he said. ``I mean, you have a potentially fatal situation that Ben survived and lived to talk about, so it had a happy ending, and people like a happy ending.''

He said officials of Ohio-based Invacare Corp., maker of the wheelchair in which Ben was riding, have been in contact with the family about providing a new wheelchair. In exchange, Don Carpenter said, Invacare would like to put Ben's current wheelchair on display at the company's headquarters in Elyria, west of Cleveland.

Meanwhile, Ben's mother, Joyce, has assembled a scrapbook of the newspaper articles, letters, cards and correspondences generated by the incident. The title on the book's cover? ``Ben's Wild Ride.''

congrats ben... your getting a new wheelchair from invacare... hmm... now i have to go to Elyra Ohio.... he he he... going to Invacare HQ would be like going to the worlds biggest toy store for me he he he...
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Wow! That guy's powerchair was stuck in the grill of a truck and he lived to tell about it? Amazing!

I've never been to a wheelchair store before. It would probably be a very interesting experience.

Try going to a powerchair FACTORY that would literally be like the worlds biggest Toys-R-Us to me hehe..

They should make a Willy Wonka type of movie, only instead of a chocolate factory they'd have a powerchair factory, and you'd be the owner of the factory.

Oh god, that would definitely be MY kind of factory... what would be name the movie?

also what would the powerchair company be named?

And what would the storyline of the movie look like, Chocolate river what would that be... molten steel river?

The movie title would of course be "Alin and the Powerchair Factory"

I'm not sure what the company would be named. We'll have to think about that one.

I don't know exactly what the storyline would be, either.

Instead of a chocolate river they'd have a conveyor belt with top-of-the-line powerchairs on them for people to get in and ride.

This would be one weirded up movie if you ask me...

We will have to think about the company name, maybe Rolls Royce? oh wait already taken, daamn it!

storyline we will have to develop

POWERCHAIR RIVER YAY!! !

That would be a lot of fun, wouldn't it?

Where do i sign the papers for the factory ownership transfer?

I don't have a chair because I am not disabled, but has anyone heard of this chair called the iBOT which is made by the company that has the Segway?