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<br /><br />Taken from USA Today..<br /><br />Man gesturing at trains gets too close<br /><br />APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - A man in a wheelchair who makes obscene gestures to the crews of passing trains was injured when he got a little too close to one of them, police said. <br />A gas tank on a train engine clipped the wheelchair of Leland Laird, 54, Tuesday evening, causing him to fall out of the damaged chair and injure his arm, police said. <br /><br />Laird told officers he has used a wheelchair since 1989 when a car he was driving was struck by a train near Fremont. <br /><br />But that's not the reason he periodically "flips off" the trains, Lt. Pat Matuszewski said. <br /><br />He told police he puts himself where train crews can see him - engineers and conductors consider him a regular - and makes obscene gestures because he is frustrated by their loud horns. <br /><br />"He lives right near the intersection. That's his way of addressing the loud horns blowing," Matuszewski said. <br /><br />Laird was treated at Appleton Medical Center for an abrasion to his left arm, ticketed as a pedestrian for violating traffic signals, and told to find less dangerous ways to express himself.
<br /><br />Taken from USA Today..<br /><br />Man gesturing at trains gets too close<br /><br />APPLETON, Wis. (AP) - A man in a wheelchair who makes obscene gestures to the crews of passing trains was injured when he got a little too close to one of them, police said. <br />A gas tank on a train engine clipped the wheelchair of Leland Laird, 54, Tuesday evening, causing him to fall out of the damaged chair and injure his arm, police said. <br /><br />Laird told officers he has used a wheelchair since 1989 when a car he was driving was struck by a train near Fremont. <br /><br />But that's not the reason he periodically "flips off" the trains, Lt. Pat Matuszewski said. <br /><br />He told police he puts himself where train crews can see him - engineers and conductors consider him a regular - and makes obscene gestures because he is frustrated by their loud horns. <br /><br />"He lives right near the intersection. That's his way of addressing the loud horns blowing," Matuszewski said. <br /><br />Laird was treated at Appleton Medical Center for an abrasion to his left arm, ticketed as a pedestrian for violating traffic signals, and told to find less dangerous ways to express himself.