{"id":54348,"date":"2014-10-06T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=54348"},"modified":"2014-10-06T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T20:39:09","slug":"david-hasselhoff-makes-young-mans-dream-come-true-with-joyride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/david-hasselhoff-makes-young-mans-dream-come-true-with-joyride\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hasselhoff makes young man&#8217;s dream come true with joyride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A Dutch super-fan of David Hasselhoff&#8217;s old TV show\u00a0<em>Knight Rider\u00a0<\/em>got the thrill of a lifetime when the star himself took him out for a joyride in LA.<\/p>\n<p>The following segment is\u00a0from a Dutch TV program called <em>Syndroom<\/em>, which\u00a0helps people with special needs to fulfill their dreams and fantasies. Seeing Twan&#8217;s joy may bring a tear to your eye \u2013 it did for Hasselhoff:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUgCpSbCTv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As an aside, you&#8217;ll notice that Twan is bilingual. People with Down syndrome are often ridiculed for their intellectual differences and called &#8220;retarded.&#8221; This label insinuates that individuals with Down syndrome are much less capable of learning\u00a0than &#8220;average&#8221; people. However, how many &#8220;average&#8221; people do you know with lingual proficiency in both Dutch and English?<\/p>\n<p>The amount of planning that went into this dream-come-true for Twan is impressive. No detail was overlooked. As <a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/tv\/2014\/09\/watch-david-hasselhoff-take-a-knight-rider-superfan-with-down-syndrome-for-a-spin-in-kitt\/\">Upworthy <\/a>notes, even KITT&#8217;s original voice is used to record a personalized message for Twan when he enters the car:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They even have it set up so KITT gives Twan a personalized message before they all pull away, which apparently means they got 87-year-old William Daniels \u2014 Mr. Feeny himself \u2014 to reprise his role as the voice of the car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full <em>Syndroom<\/em> episode can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtlxl.nl\/#!\/syndroom-303996\/d871324b-a3b3-4619-a6bb-e8b2902ef8d3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch super-fan of David Hasselhoff&#8217;s old TV show\u00a0Knight Rider\u00a0got the thrill of a lifetime when the star himself took him out for a joyride in LA. 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