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Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:38 pm
by mekender
http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=9373427
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - A custom-built wheelchair stolen from a 5-year-old girl was recovered Tuesday but chopped up into "a million pieces," her mother said.
The $8,000-chair belongs to Annabelle Hulgan, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since birth by spina bifida. It was stolen Monday from the front yard of her daytime caregiver.
Annabelle's mother, Christen Hulgan, said the chair was found dumped beside a city street with much of its frame disassembled and its pink striped wheels pulled off. Thieves may have planned to sell the chair for scrap metal, she said, and parts of it appeared to have been hacksawed.
"Maybe they had a change of heart," Hulgan said. "I don't know. I would love if that was the reason."
The wheelchair would likely be unsafe if patched back together and getting a new one could take months.
"Her wheelchair is like her legs," Hulgan said. "That is her joy."
Hulgan, a kindergarten teacher, said her 5- and 6-year-old students heard about the theft and were worried about Annabelle.
"We sat down and talked about it, talked about how the things you do have consequences for other people," she said. "They were like, 'Who is that bad that would do that?' These kids have no idea what is bad in the world."
To donate to the Anabelle Wheelchair Account, you can contact Nancy Martin at MIFA by calling 529-4525.
Lets all toss a few dollars her way.
I called the station... the area code is 901
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:44 pm
by 308Mike
It would be justice if the turds who stole the wheelchair and cut it up got themselves into a situation and suddenly found themselves in dire need of a wheelchair, yet their local medical place couldn't provide any (no mo money) since they had to replace one after thieves stole it and hacked it up.
BASTARDS
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:56 pm
by princewally
It would be justice if some kind-hearted soul broke the thieves' backs and made them carry the little girl around on a howdah, while crawling, using nothing but their lips.
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:20 am
by FastRope71
Princewally,
We are civilized people on this board and such extremism is neither required nor wanted.
I think that making them haul her around by her lips is way beyond the requisite punishment.
As a more civilized alternative, I suggest a ten pound sledge be applied to both sides of both knees by no less than 3 U.S. Navy Boiler Technicians (Now PMs) for each joint. In a pinch we could let a few Hull Techs or machinery repairmen have a whack, but only in the absence of hole dwellers.
Once their lower support system has been pulverized to the point of no repair, I think it would be fine to allow them to proceed with transport our young maiden in distress by whatever means offer the greatest pain to them, and the most comfort to her.
You see? there is no reason to resort to barbarity.
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:02 pm
by princewally
FastRope71 wrote:
You see? there is no reason to resort to barbarity.
Of course. My apologies for my lack of standards.
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:13 am
by FastRope71
LOL!
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:03 pm
by First Shirt
The genteel civility of this group is an inspiration to me.
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:44 pm
by jetfxr69
I was just thinking her new wheelchair should be upholstered in the skin of the miscreants!!
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:22 pm
by rightisright
I was just thinking her new wheelchair should be upholstered in the skin of the miscreants!!
And instead of those Bull Balls people hang off their trucks....
Re: Donate to a little girl's wheelchair
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:02 am
by Whirlibird
rightisright wrote:I was just thinking her new wheelchair should be upholstered in the skin of the miscreants!!
And instead of those Bull Balls people hang off their trucks....
Very appropriate.