Y’know, this story j…

Y’know, this story just sounds like a Darwin award winner in the making.

Giuseppe Cannella had a big surprise for his mother-in-law when he put a jet engine on the back of her wheelchair.
Mr Cannella says the chair can now do top speeds of more than 60mph and has proved the star of a model plane championship during the Bank Holiday.

A model plane enthusiast himself, Mr Cannella has been putting on shows at Barkston Heath near Grantham, Lincs.

“It is just the wheelchair with the engine bolted on the back and steering on the front,” he said.

Now, the Darwin Award I cite has been confirmed to be bogus (a guy who died when the car he’d attached a jet engine to went airborne and hit a cliff). However, there is a cartoon on that page which was inspired by the story; “Backed by a new set of sponsors, Evil Kneivel [sic] re-attempts to jump the Snake river canyon in a rocket powered wheel chair”.

Prophetic? Only time will tell.

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