Cane Stolen From Man With Multiple Sclerosis
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Cane Stolen
A man with multiple sclerosis is pleading for the man who stole his cane to return it.
A man with multiple sclerosis is pleading for the man who stole his cane to return it.
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio—A man who was recently laid off issued a plea Thursday for a teen to bring back the cane the man accidentally left in a service station.
Mark Williston recently lost his job with GM. Then came other losses, NBC 4‘s Mike Bowersock reported.
“I lost the house, I sold off the contents trying to save the house and it got to the point that there wasn’t anything left to sell,“ Williston said.
Then, Williston said, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
“The pain was just … I’ve never experienced pain like this in my life,“ he said.
A custom made cane helped him negotiate his 6-foot-2-inch tall, 300-pound frame.
But Thursday morning, he realized he’d left his cane at a neighborhood Speedway gas station.
When Williston returned to get it, he was told that a man in his late teens or early 20s had just walked out with it.
“It’s not worth anything to this kid, I mean it’s not, it can’t be,“ Williston said.
The cane was one which had been specially cut for him and had a saddle horn brass handle. He is now using a less satisfactory substitute.
“I don’t want to press charges against the kid. He made a bad choice. So be it,“ he said.
Williston said that if the person would just drop the cane off at the gas station, he knows it would get back to him.
“All I want is my cane back,“ Williston said.
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To those who think it is odd that a person with MS would leave a cane—MS is a disease that has symptoms that fluctuate over the course of days and weeks. It can have relapses and remissions. On any given day someone can be so tired that even a cane is not enough, while at other points one can feel good enough to walk comfortably without a cane at all. Another symptom of MS is difficulty with attention—so forgetting things is not unusual and is often the result of the disease. Each persons symptoms are unique. I’d encourage anyone to try to understand what kind of disease or disability someone has before they judge them.
Please, Please, Please give the cane back!!! This is horrible!
(WhyMe)Check your morales. If someone is in a convienent store and picks up something that doesn’t belong to them they should at least attempt to pay for it? There is a name for someone who acts this way. Thief.
I guess you really didnt need that cane to walk ..... if you really needed it you wouldn’t of left it in a store.
Walks off with the mans cane ? Now if the people in the Speedway knew it didnt belong to this guy why let him take it. Just another scumbag with sticky fingers. Or could be an honest Joe going to look for the owner ? Time will tell. My money is on the scumbag. Mr. Williston is right about one thing , the thing is of no use to the scumbag.Except now he can show off to his buddies…he has something special…he took from a cripple. Gotta love these people.
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