Thieves swipe 16 basketball
wheelchairs
REGINA, Saskatchewan -- A Canadian
paraplegic wheelchair-basketball
coach in Regina, Saskatchewan, appealed Monday for the return of 16 special
chairs stolen during the weekend.
A white Dodge Caravan and utility trailer filled with the specially designed
chairs with two sloped side wheels and a smaller central one was stolen from
outside the home of coach Mike Brady Saturday night, the Regina Leader-Post
reported Monday.
"They have absolutely no value to anyone other than the kids in my program,"
Brady told the newspaper. "Without (the chairs) it's done. We'd have to start
all over from the beginning, worse than the beginning ... everything that I've
done for so long is gone."
Since 2000, he has been running a disabled basketball program for disabled
youth, and he said the chairs are put to use five days a week.
Each chair costs $3,000, he said.
"We can deal with the loss of the trailer and the van, but to lose the chairs, I
just can't deal with that," he said.
As of Monday, Regina police had no leads, the report said.
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