Johannes Stallinger was shot on his motorcycle by an alcoholic driver in Upper Austria at the end of March. The hooligan’s van, which had crossed a barrier line, rammed him head-on. The 46-year-old almost died as a result. Now he is paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Friends from the fire department gave him a surprise reception.
The emotion was written on Rohrbach-Berg’s face when Johannes Stallinger met his comrades from the volunteer fire brigade for the first time on Friday afternoon, exactly eight months after a terrible traffic accident on the B 38.
Respect and applause
They had lined up and wanted to show respect and applause to their recovering friend for his bravery in dealing with the fate he had suffered.
Big surprise
After returning from a month-long rehabilitation stay, the 46-year-old was lured to the fire station under false pretenses by his wife Elisabeth and their sons Christoph (22) and David (19). The surprise was enormous. “I was extremely happy and moved so much that my eyes got wet,” says Stallinger.
This year, on March 29, the insurance broker was shot head-on by a van on his motorcycle on Böhmerwald Straße, on his way home from work. It later emerged that the driver was drunk and had crossed a barrier line.
“Three weeks in a coma”
“I was floating between life and death, was in a coma for three weeks and am now paralyzed from the chest down.” But he also wants to volunteer with the fire brigade again in the future.
Source: Krone
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