Disabled six-year-old girl’s wheelchair taken in car theft returned – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydz5vwn1wo
Posted by CasualSmurf
Disabled six-year-old girl’s wheelchair taken in car theft returned – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydz5vwn1wo
Posted by CasualSmurf
5 Comments
Good for them. Its not an ideal situation, but given the alternative I’ll give a slight nod of the head.
> The chair, worth about £4,000, was in the boot of the family’s grey Peugeot 5008 when the vehicle was stolen from outside their home in Woodland Drive, Braunstone Town, at about 04:30 GMT on Sunday.
> Later that day, following the appeal, police said the car and wheelchair were driven back to the family’s home and abandoned
I have a passionate and deep-seated hate of thieves as well as people who hand wave it away with “oh that’s what insurance is for” and act as though people are ridiculous for getting upset about it. Until it happens to them, few people understand how violating it can be to work hard for something like a car only to have someone just take it, let alone a car that contains something that grants your disabled child the ability to live their life with a modicum of normality.
Having said that, you have to give kudos to the thieving scum for this. Given that they actually returned the car, they presumably did it out of conscience rather than being worried about the publicity- they’d probably be a lot less likely to be caught if they just dumped it in a ditch and set fire to it.
Ayy I’m from near here.
We split braunstone into different areas: dodge, town, Texas, and frith.
Absolute shithole I was from new parks so there was childish “gang” rivalries.
Nice to see there’s a little bit of honour among thieves though.
Holy shit criminals with morals are we back in the 60s ?
“You are bad guy. But this does not mean you are *bad guy*.”