Armless Man Gets 5 Years for Driving

[eddierox]

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A man with no arms and one leg who wouldn't stop driving despite a long list of traffic violations was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on felony driving and drug charges.

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...03/730924.html

Wiley taught himself to drive after losing both arms and a leg in an electrical accident when he was 13. He has already spent more than three years in prison for habitually driving without a license, kicking a state trooper and other charges.

He once had a valid license, but it has been suspended several times since 1985, according to his attorney. He starts the car with his toes, shifts with his knee and steers with the stump of his left arm. He turns on the lights with his teeth.

[310stanger]

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - A man with no arms and one leg who wouldn't stop driving despite a long list of traffic violations was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on felony driving and drug charges.

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...03/730924.html

Wiley taught himself to drive after losing both arms and a leg in an electrical accident when he was 13. He has already spent more than three years in prison for habitually driving without a license, kicking a state trooper and other charges.

He once had a valid license, but it has been suspended several times since 1985, according to his attorney. He starts the car with his toes, shifts with his knee and steers with the stump of his left arm. He turns on the lights with his teeth.

I'm all for handicapped people that are otherwise able to drive with all the new technology and device/implements made granting them independence but the line has to be drawn somewhere. If i had to pass a drivers test with all specifics on how i drive, where my hands are on the wheel, the adjustment of controls etc, then how the hell is someone with no arms and one leg driving? Not for nothing though, are the people that even have arms and brake and throttle with their hands really that safe? i dunno dont wanna sound like a dick but everyone knows they are thinking what i jus said

[thecorrectformula]

The kicking the trooper one got me, I'm still tryin to figure that one out.