Man who was chopped in half by forklift shares sickening new crime against him
He's had to deal with this several times
Loren Schauers, a man whose life was changed after he was cut in half by a forklift, has asked his followers to help him sort out someone who is up to no good.
When the American bloke was 18, he was working as a labourer in Montana, and he suffered life-changing injuries after the forklift he was using plummeted off a bridge.
He'd been driving the forklift when it veered off course, dropped 50ft from the bridge to the ground and took Loren with it, cutting him in half.
Doctors amputated everything below the man's waist and part of his right arm to save his life. Since then, Loren has documented his recovery and subsequent life alongside his wife, Sabia Reiche.
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The pair have proved popular on the internet as they've shown people how they've adapted to Loren being a triple amputee, along with the more normal aspects of daily life they get to enjoy, as Loren thankfully survived.
Sadly, their social success had attracted a few problems.
Loren and Sabia say 'you know the drill'
Sabia and Loren recently had to post a warning to their followers that someone had set up a fake profile copying them, and it's not the first time this has happened.
The couple and their fans have been through this before, with Sabia and Loren saying: "Yet another impersonator page y'all, you know the drill, go and report them and leave reviews letting people know they’re fake please!"
They shared a picture of a Facebook page showing an image of the couple, which had amassed over 25,000 followers, and their fans warned them of several other impersonation pages to boot.
The couple later joked that they'd got the 'top fan badge' on Facebook on one of these fake pages for interacting with it so much, as they'd repeatedly reported it.
Past impersonations of Sabia and Loren
This is nowhere near the first time they've found accounts claiming to be them. Over the years since Loren's accidents, they've had to flag a number of fake accounts, with some of them duping his fans by sharing genuine links to his YouTube account.
However, some of them have also shared pictures of crowdfunding pages, and the couple doesn't want people to lose their money to scammers.
They've had to face accusations from conspiracy theorists that their genuine GoFundMe page was a scam, with people claiming they edited photos of Loren to pretend he'd lost his limbs rather than accept that he genuinely did have them amputated.
It's been happening since near the start of their journey. Several years ago, they had to stamp out a 'fake GoFundMe campaign' that mimicked them, as Sabia had to tell people to avoid the con.
Loren's journey since the accident
The accident occurred on 27 September 2019, and in the years since then, Loren has documented his recovery journey.
Sabia and Loren have had to change a lot about their lives to adapt, but they've managed it, and last year, as he marked five years since his accident, Loren explained that they'd managed to get things 'under control' a bit more.
He said: "Five years later, pain's under control, life is finally managed in a way that we can control it now.
"I don't know how to explain it, it's not as epic, things aren't like bombs dropping on us any more. We kind of know what to expect with certain things, and can kind of tell what's gonna happen."
Topics: US News, Social Media, Facebook, Health
Joe Harker