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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