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Showing Original Post only (View all)Drivers honked as a man in a wheelchair raced home during a storm. This teen stopped to push him... [View all]
(CNN)Gregory Beck was on his way to his St. Louis home in his wheelchair when tornado sirens sounded.
Beck lost both of his legs last year and is legally blind, according to CNN affiliate KMOV4. It would normally take him 25 minutes to get back home from the supermarket, and he would need to stop as many as 10 times to rest.
"Everyone kept telling me the storm is coming and you need to hurry up and get home," Beck told the station.
While other drivers honked and yelled at Beck as he tried to cross the street Tuesday and make it up the hill, 16-year-old Seth Phillips and his mother, Amber Gilleylen, stopped their car so Seth could push him the rest of the way home.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/st-louis-wheelchair-storm-teen-trnd/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-05-25T14%3A31%3A02
Beck lost both of his legs last year and is legally blind, according to CNN affiliate KMOV4. It would normally take him 25 minutes to get back home from the supermarket, and he would need to stop as many as 10 times to rest.
"Everyone kept telling me the storm is coming and you need to hurry up and get home," Beck told the station.
While other drivers honked and yelled at Beck as he tried to cross the street Tuesday and make it up the hill, 16-year-old Seth Phillips and his mother, Amber Gilleylen, stopped their car so Seth could push him the rest of the way home.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/st-louis-wheelchair-storm-teen-trnd/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-05-25T14%3A31%3A02
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Drivers honked as a man in a wheelchair raced home during a storm. This teen stopped to push him... [View all]
demmiblue
May 2019
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CousinIT
May 2019
#10
Seth and his mom will be ignored by Trump, but useless pro golfers will get honors. nt
NCjack
May 2019
#13
This is the real St Louis MO, people caring for each other. I think most of us DUers are like ...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#19
Dear Seth, your mom must be so proud of you!! I am and I am not even related to you.
demigoddess
May 2019
#29