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How NOT to Drive a Motorized Wheelchair

So, let’s see... you’re in a motorized wheelchair and you are heading towards an elevator. As you start to approach it, a woman enters it and then closes the doors, taking the elevator to wherever she needs to.

This is where the normal part of the story ends. Let’s recap: we’ve described a normal situation that has happened to all of us (minus the wheelchair). A “standard” person would just stop in front of the elevator and push the magic button that makes the beast fight gravity in order to serve our personal needs. However, the guy in the wheel chair decided that the lifting creature needs to be punished as he probably considered that it had shown severe signs of insubordination to a member of the superior human race - such a shame for the engineers that thought it would do that!

The person’s next step was to use the force... of the motorized wheelchair. And so he did. The electric unit in the wheelchair was forced to listen to its master and push the contraption, together with the man sitting on it towards the elevator’s doors. So, the elevator was hit in retribution for his earlier act of disobedience.

But this wasn’t enough for our hero. Oh, no. The man decided to back up so that the chair could build momentum and hit the the doors harder. All said and done.

This is another important point in our story, as here is where things turn from stupid to potentially lethal. The guy slammed into the doors so hard that these failed and he had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of meeting the elevator’s evil twin brother - his shaft. And down he went... You can watch the succession of crazy moments in the video below.

Before or after we end this, please remind us to thank Gizmodo for publishing the video.

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About the author: Andrei Tutu
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