Article: Electric Scooter Stolen From Woman Who Struggles With Condition That Impacts Stamina Jan 2020

[Sly Saint]

DENVER (CBS4) – A woman received an electric scooter as a Christmas gift from her family to help her manage a condition that affects her stamina, but less than 24 hours after she brought it home, it was stolen. She hopes someone can help her find it because thieves got it so quickly she was unable to find a way to insure the gift.

Johnson has Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a condition that affects your stamina. She explains it forces 25% of those with the disorder to be homebound. The other 75% often cannot work. Johnson says as a high functioning adult with the condition, she still needs help getting around town. Lifestyle management is the only way to treat the condition and over-exerting yourself can make it worse. Living in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood makes it difficult to move around with limited parking.

“It was kind of life changing to have,” she said. “It’s frustrating that my world expanded and then shrunk right back down.”

The Razor EcoSmart Metro scooter was parked and locked outside of her building to a tree on the same block. She says her apartment complex does not have an accessible entrance and even on the first floor, she has to climb a flight of stairs and she would not be able to carry the scooter.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/01/02/electric-scooter-stolen-denver-capitol-hill-neighborhood/

(@Hell..hath..no..fury... have the teletubbies emigrated?)

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

Lol! @Sly Saint but seriously, poor woman. Note to self: don’t go down the outdoor storage route

I feel her pain on the ‘expanded then shrunken down again’ feeling Absolutely infuriating.

I’ve been on for the last month trying to sell my scooter as it’s pointless; and swap it out for an electric bike to make manouvering a bit easier, time will tell if I can actually use it.

so far three people have bought the scooter but ignored the giant capital letters saying collection only no postage!

people really do my head in at times/most of the time.

I hope that woman manages to get her freedom back

 

[Sisyphus]

There’s been a push to effectively decriminalized that type of theft so in the unlikely event the perps are caught, they’ll be released, this time knowing to fence the thing out of state. I live in a large city in the USA, anti-policing and anti-sentencing have become a thing here.

 

[Sly Saint]

swap it out for an electric bike

or............



an ME car!