Read this news story. (prepare to be really annoyed with some people in Omaha)

http://omaha.com/article/20091027/NEWS01/710279982

It's too bad he couldnt get a neighbor to put it inside for him...plus, it rained a bunch (and I think, that's the day it snowed here...maybe?) You would think it was also ruined by water getting into the control yoke.

I hope he can get a new one...forget fixing it...I hope a local scooter company can replace it for him, either at a discount or for free.

This is so sad.

That is just so wrong - what is the matter with people? He's right, they belong in jail and need to stay there long after he's back on his scooter going places. I do hope a scooter company will step up and help him. It saddens me to think what this world has become.

Unfortunately I've read more than one story similar to this one down here . My closest friend here wasin a grocery store parking lot and some a-hole literally ran her down and fled the scene! Her scooter was mangled but she was ok, thank goodness. They never caught the guy who was driving a shiny, new Cadillac .

You could write to the newspaper and ask if anyone has started a collection of donations for the man. I really can't comprehend how some "people's" minds work. Sigh.

I used to go late after work to the cemetary to visit a dear friend who passed. A friend who was going out with me after work followed along. It was getting kind late and dark in the day as we approached the grave. She wrapped her arms around herself and said "doesnt this scare you?!" I replied, "its not the dead I am afraid of, its the living!" And it holds true to this day.

I have a sister who would steal the shoes off your feet. She would harrass handicap kids in school and laugh as if because they were different, they didnt have feelings. I would stand with my mouth open and not know what to say. I still feel that her choices to be so mean and cruel, pushed me to be compassionate and led to a nursing career. Some folks just dont get it. They have zero ability to have compassion for others, handicapped or not.

I hope a company steps forward to get him a new or better one.

We had enough $, the whole family went on a cruise, got the tiny cheap rooms, so small, left wheelchair outside door, One night , guess some drunks took a joy-ride, broke the foot rest on the side I depend on, my "good side. I get very uncomfortable in that chair now. Cruise before wasn't like that, had great food - named for famous people - Cel*****y - all that worked on that boat were great, helpful, etc. Next cruise where damage done, like a Place with rides and games - C*****l was terrible! The McDonald's fast food of cruises. Loud, low-class (yet same price), very unhelpful anonymous staff , 24 hour pizza but other food not so great. Took whoever stole wheelchair little time to ruin it. I keep my good powerchair out of anyone's reach now. These are my legs!!!

Did you complain to the cruise line about the joyride? They might have had security cameras that got the <bleepity bleeps> on tape.

Dont those cruises have handicap accessible rooms? Something big enough that can accomodate wheelchairs and scooters?


I have a serious phobia of ships...Not sure if it's because I like to read about maritime disasters like the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, or if it's related to my fear of deep, open water. (I cant even swim in a small lake...I can swim in swimming pools...which is weird)

I've seen too many news stories about people getting the norovirus on cruise ships, and I get seasick fairly easily because the MS gives me vertigo and it's easy to set off the vertigo now. So, I havent ever really wanted to go on a cruise. (altho an Alaskan cruise is a bit tempting. I'd love to visit Alaska someday)

My neighbors have gone on that "famous people cruise line" and havent had a lot of nice things to say about it. (last time they got norovirus...at least they'd just gotten home when it hit them. They came home, and said they'd been home about an hour before they started getting sick) I dont think they're going to do many more cruises anymore.

http://omaha.com/article/20091028/NEWS01/710289953

At least SIX people offered new (or slightly used) scooters to the man who had his stolen. Others asked if there was a fund set up for donations.

The first person to offer up a scooter was an anonymous person from Fremont, NE. (midsize town that's about 30 or 40 minutes from Omaha...I have relatives there)

Yay!! This is cool. Hopefully no one else will try to steal his new scooter now.

I doubt that they'll ever catch the kids who originally stole the scooter. I'm sure it passed thru several hands before it was found at the grocery store. Hopefully karma will get them eventually.

A similar thing happened near Portland recently -
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index...disable_1.html

[A disabled woman whose electric scooter was stolen from Clackamas Town Center got a new scooter and her old one back in pieces today, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. ]