July 22, 2004
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Wisconsin man injured while flipping off trains
Associated Press
July 21, 2004
APPLETON, Wis. -- A man in a wheelchair who makes obscene gestures to the crews of passing trains was injured when he got a little too close to one of them.
A gas tank on a train engine clipped the wheelchair of Leland Laird, 54, Tuesday evening, causing him to fall out of the damaged chair and injure his arm, police said.
Laird has been wheelchair-bound since 1989 when a car he was driving was struck by a train near Fremont. But that's not the reason he periodically 'flips off' the trains.
He told police he puts himself where train crews can see him - engineers and conductors consider him a regular - and makes obscene gestures because he is frustrated by their loud horns.
Comments (3)
for some reason this reminds me of Abe Simpson: "Old Man Yells at Clouds."
I was being a little too Amelia Bedelia-ish and pictured a man literally flipping off trains. This is even dumber.
As my mom always says, "Be nice to everyone."
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