{"id":2786,"date":"2008-11-18T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2008-11-18T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:40:45","slug":"absolute-scum-of-the-universe-report-thieves-steal-and-dismantle-girls-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/absolute-scum-of-the-universe-report-thieves-steal-and-dismantle-girls-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute scum of the universe report: Thieves steal and dismantle girl’s wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wanted to alert people who don’t keep up with Memphis local news to this story: Girl’s wheelchair snagged by thief.<\/a> A 5-year-old girl’s wheelchair was left unattended in a driveway for 5 minutes, and thieves came by and stole it.\u00a0 The little girl has spina bfida and used the chair as an extension of herself – she cheered in it, danced in it, etc.\u00a0 Needless to say, she was devastated and, according to the CA article, was crying all day long.\u00a0 She’s now being pushed around in a stroller and her parents aren’t sure whether insurance will cover a replacement.\u00a0 The chair was later recovered, completely dismantled, according to comments left on the CA story.\u00a0 The thieves had apparently tried to sell it for parts, and dumped what they couldn’t use from it.<\/p>\n

If there are any plans to raise funds to get the little girl a replacement chair, please keep me in the loop (paul@paulryburn.com) so that my blog’s 1000+ daily readers have the opportunity to give.\u00a0 It’s not so much the money, it’s showing the little girl that most people in the community are the opposite of the pieces of garbage who stole her chair.\u00a0 So far I haven’t heard of any organized effort – someone mentioned Rock 103 in the comments but I didn’t see anything on their site (although I did see an interesting article<\/a> about Led Zep touring without Plant under a different name next year).\u00a0 If anyone hears of a fund-raising drive for this let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just wanted to alert people who don’t keep up with Memphis local news to this story: Girl’s wheelchair snagged by thief. A 5-year-old girl’s wheelchair was left unattended in a driveway for 5 minutes, and thieves came by and stole it.\u00a0 The little girl has spina bfida and used the chair as an extension … Continue reading “Absolute scum of the universe report: Thieves steal and dismantle girl’s wheelchair”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}