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15 Comments to “Isn’t It Rather Unsafe For Disabled Persons To Use Motorized Wheelchairs In Public Places?”

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   Darwin says:

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   What, they gonna steal ME along with it? I am one of those ‘disabled’ people, so is my husband. Are we supposed to stay home and stop living because we are disabled?

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   Green Eyes says:

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   1. If they steal the chair, it is bulky, hard to resell for much of a profit, and usually occupied, which makes it kidnapping.
   2. Purse-snatching or other theft is not much different from a person in a chair than it is any other person with limitations of some sort, like the elderly. However, power chairs offer a lot of relatively secure hiding places, people in them rarely carry a lot of money, and certain crimes are just so wrong that the public helps more and the cops pursue more aggressively.
   I have worked with a lot of people in power chairs who put a lot of hours in public places, and so far none of them has been attacked in any way and you RARELY hear about cromes against people in chairs.

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   Madkins0 says:

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   Considering the weight of the chair which
   is over 100 pounds combined with the
   weight of the occupant.
   I know a friend in one of those wheelchairs who
   ran over and broke the leg of a guy who was
   trying to rob him of his wallet.
   If done right, one of those puppies can crush
   somebody up real good.
   EDIT: Most of those robbers probably wouldn’t even
   know how to drive it after the chairjacking.

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   Franklin Stein says:

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   I heard on the local news about an elderly PWD who had a motorized wheelchair. The PWD was stranded on a street due to their wheelchair battery going dead. A man came along in a pickup and offer to take the elderly PWD home in which the PWD accepted. The driver said that he would go back and pick up the wheelchair and return the wheelchair back to the elderly PWD the next day. The driver NEVER did return the motorized wheelchair back to the PWD. So far as of this date, the elderly PWD still does NOT have their motorized wheelchair back. I HATE it because the PWD got their motorized wheelchair stolen by a person. I HOPE that the police is involved and finds the stolen motorized wheelchair so that the elderly PWD can get their motorized wheelchair back.
   Normally, a PWD stays in their wheelchair in public, so it would be extremely hard to steal a wheelchair with its PWD owner still in the motorized wheelchair.
   To Lizzy-tish: I do not know whether an agency has stepped up or not to replace the stolen wheelchair. I am going to call the local television station this week to find out. The elderly PWD does have a manual wheelchair that they are using to get around in.

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   SSA Certified Disabled PWD KING says:

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   Generally you need the key to start the scooters up. However yes they can be dangerous , especially if people are driving them on sidewalks and not the road , they are more a road vehicle . Nearly got run over by one at a doctor’s office, the person really shouldn’t have been driving one, my friend jumped in front of me to save me from being run over.
   I’m waiting for someone on a scooter who is drunk or drugged to be charged with a dui one of these days.
   My mum when she first got her electric wheelchair took out the glass in the china cabinet and didn’t get hurt. Eventually she learned how to drive it but if someone inadvertently got in the way an electric wheelchair could do a lot of damage to a person.
   To PWD who told the story about the wheelchair being stolen has no agnecy come forward to help the disabled person get another one ?

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   Lizzy-ti says:

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   The reason people have these “gadgets” is for mobility. Cars are costly “gadgets” and people continue to park them in parking lots and risk them being stolen. People are far more likely to steal an unoccupied car than an occupied wheelchair.
   So when are you giving up your car????

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   chiliswo says:

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   As soon as one goes out of the house,,its unsafe for disabled as well as able body…
   But a person that disabled should not lock them self away just because of all this….In the near future with all the baby boomers out there..there going to be a lot of monetized chairs and scooters….
   Maybe someone pick up the chair before he came back…did you think of that…

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   chris1h2 says:

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   Yes they are easy pickings, but , should they be confined to home just because they are disabled? No, we have rights also. A little old lady can be attacked also. Any woman is at risk any time she goes out alone. So should we all stay home and never go out? I don’t think so.

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   HappyCam says:

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   They can take a moble with them and call the police if some one is trying to attacked them.
   or if they can’t use their hands well maybe they have a dog that get the phone and rings the police and barks into the phone.

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    jobees says:

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    not unsafe they are trained to use better than most car drivers. i’m easier pickings for robbers as i use a cane/walker and get very unbalanced. one of the reasons i can’t go out on my own.

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    flutterb says:

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    Yes I’m sure robbers love a good joy ride on a motorized wheelchair. Do you mean those motability scooters? Disabled people in wheelchairs tend to stay in their wheelchair in public places.

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    siouxsie says:

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    Its nutty out There. but be sure you Have Mirrows To see Behind, & Pull Over if you see Ones Who wants to Go fast like a Race car, be carefull & ill pray for you & god bless.

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    Ducky. says:

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    anyone can be picked by robbers. disable people have to get around somehow

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    kit kat says:

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    If they get me out of it but we have conceal an carry in this state and I do as well as lot of others in motorized chairs

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    dirtytri says:

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    how else are they gonna get around?

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