'The Breakfast Flakes' handed over a check for $7,000 that listeners of Mark & Paul helped raise this past summer to purchase a wheelchair for friend of the show, Curtis Lemmon, who was paralyzed from the chest down following a motorcycle accident in March 2018.
While there are wheeled contraptions available to give mobility to handicapped pets, the Amigo — a new wheelchair from industrial designer Nia Shalom — is specially optimized for the way pups move.
The tortoise may be able to outrun the hare but he’s no match for the motorized wheelchair. Cruiser, a wily desert tortoise, is a fierce competitor, but an elderly, wheelchair-bound gentleman named Josef wins by a nose.