Crowd surfing in a wheelchair
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Frankly, we haven't been getting much material from the "Department of People Are Pretty Great" lately, but it made up for it today with this nugget.
In Montreal, fans of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros helped a young man in a wheelchair crowd surf at the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival.
He was helped on stage as the band performed, "If I Were Free."
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