Vintage ENM: Girl’s prosthetic leg stolen not once, but twice
April 22, 2008 by ElfNinosMom
Girl’s prosthetic legs stolen for second time - Yahoo! News
Now, this is weird. Apparently some frickin’ ‘tard keeps stealing this poor kid’s prosthetic legs. She has two, one she uses to play on the school softball team and one she uses everyday. She apparently lost one of her legs when she was accidentally hit by a driver while standing in front of her middle school a couple of years ago.
Obviously, this kid doesn’t let the fact that she lost her leg stop her from doing anything. Good for her!
But now, she has no prosthetic legs at all, because the thief stole both of them. It doesn’t really say, but it appears that she was gone out of the house without her prosthesis when they were stolen. Funny thing is, her room was ransacked, but the only things missing were her prosthetic legs.
Now, why would anybody steal a teenage girl’s prosthetic legs, or anyone’s prosthetic legs for that matter? More to the point, why would this happen more than once? The last time one of her legs was stolen, it was found some time later in the girl’s backyard, apparently thrown there by the thief.
There was an episode of The Sopranos, where Tony Soprano’s weirdo sister Janice stole a woman’s prosthetic leg to get back at her for refusing to return some old records the then-deceased Soprano mother had given to her prior to her death.
That woman sent the Russian mafia after the person who stole her leg. Maybe that’s what these people need to do - send some really scary people to beat the living hell out of whoever did this. I bet they’d never do it again.
Reproduced from my old blog, The Rampant Anti-PAMite, 18 February 06
My dad had some kids still his wheelchair once from the back of his car. They gave it to one of their friends who had a broken leg. The weird thing is when the police found it the kids parents were there. None of the parents found it strange that a group of 10-12 yr old claimed they found a new wheelchair just laying around near a dumpster. The chair was in good shape at least before the kids got it. The policeman almost lost it when one of the parents asked if the kids got a reward for finding the chair.
WOW. I find it stunning that someone would steal a wheelchair out of someone’s car, since it wouldn’t be there unless someone needed it. I find it even more stunning that parents would think they’d get a reward for it. Some parents are dumber than dirt.
Was it usable when your father got it back, or was it just dirty and torn up?
It was usable. Just dirty and think the back was damaged where they ripped his name off of it. My granddaddy who was a saddle maker had made a nice leather nameplate for the chair.
Aw, that’s terrible that they tore his name off it. It also proves that they knew it belonged to someone who needed it, though. Shame on those little punks, and shame on their parents for being dumb enough to believe they “found” it.
Sometimes I wonder what this world is coming to…..