Man Lies Paralyzed On Highway For 36 Hours

[matcom]

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FRIENDSWOOD, Texas (AP) -- A motorist injured in a crash lay paralyzed in the middle of a freeway with a broken neck for 36 hours before he was rescued.

Ed Theisen's body was blocked from view by Gulf Freeway traffic barricades in this Houston suburb. The 46-year-old survived a night alone on the concrete, unable to move or summon help.

"Someone riding in the back of a pickup truck spotted him and called police," Debora Rodeffer-Theisen, his wife, said Monday after her husband emerged from surgery. "The officer poked him with a nightstick thinking he was a dead body, but he was there and he was very much alive."

Worried that he had been carjacked, Theisen's wife drove past the area twice. He was on his side, staring at a concrete wall, his shouts inaudible to passing traffic.

Doctors later determined that Theisen had broken his neck and suffered a spinal cord injury.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/03/30/motorist.ordeal.ap/index.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yikes! How frightening that must've been!

"They said, `We have him here and he is alive and he saying he loves you,' " she said. "He was covered in Houston pollution -- it was coming out of every pore -- but he was alive."

Covered in Houston pollution - tell him to thank Shrubbie for some of that.

[slinkerwink]

2. poked him with a nightstick? that's stupid and might have

aggravated his injuries. There's a thing called "taking one's pulse"---idiot cop.

[Sticky]

3. Poor guy

That's a life changing experience, not only physically but mentally and spiritually as well.

He was on his side, staring at a concrete wall, his shouts inaudible to passing traffic.


He must have been terrified.

[DS1]

4. There's no such thing as an atheist stuck in Houston Traffic

:shrug:

[randr]

5. Where the hell was his vehicle?

[matcom]

6. they towed it

thought he had walked away from the scene

[DS1]

7. The REAL Irony here is that

he was saved by a Potential Darwin Award candidate himself, someone riding in the back of a pickup truck saw him.

Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country

[NewHampster]

8. Did the Freepers arrest the guy in the back of the pickup?

No seat belt and probably downing a beer.

:beer: