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It’ll Work in a Clutch

A delivery driver was stopped at a road block in Cape Town, South Africa, and officers were shocked that the driver had an amputated left leg. The unnamed 39-year-old man had his 11-year-old son sitting next to him, and would tell him when to press the clutch so he could change gears. The man was cited for driving without a license, and for driving an unlicensed truck. “He won’t be allowed to drive,” said the city’s chief traffic inspector, “but he shouldn’t have been driving in the first place.” (RC/AFP) ...Right: the kid should have been driving.
Original Publication Date: 07 August 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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