Memphis girl’s stolen wheelchair found destroyed

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

Source: AP

MEMPHIS — A custom-built wheelchair stolen from a 5-year-old girl was recovered today 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.

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.”

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Unbelievable, these thieves need to take the beating of their pathetic lives.

David

[rsmith6621]

1. Bastards.......

.....and that is all I have to say about that..

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Evil...and sick.

[ClarkUSA]

3. Drug crime... nobody else would be so desperate or brazen.

My guess would be meth or crack.

[Greyhound]

5. I'll guess suburban teens, this is exactly the kind of mindless destruction

that is prevalent in America.

[ClarkUSA]

6. The breaking down of metal to be sold points to drug addicts looking for fix $$

It's a dead giveaway.

[Greyhound]

7. It's too bad that we won't see any follow up on this. We could both turn out to be wrong.

I think the meth hysteria is completely media generated. That is not to say it doesn't exist, but like so many "crises" before, it is not nearly as big a problem as it is made out to be.

Documented medical mistakes kill many times more people than all the crack and meth related incidents combined, but the news isn't pushing that story down the sheeple's throats.
:kick:

[hlthe2b]

4. Surely someone in Memphis will step up to help replace...

$8k is mega money to me right now, but surely not so for many in the Memphis business community. So sad there are people so horrendously selfish that would do this.

[Ilsa]

8. I hope Tennessee has some sort of victims fund where she can apply

for help to get it replaced.

I hope there is something coming around for these insensitive assholes.