Strangers Step In After Brockton Woman's $6,300 Wheelchair Stolen
BROCKTON (CBS) – It's a cold crime at the height of the Christmas season.
A disabled Brockton woman is not able to get around because someone stole her motorized wheelchair.
Christine Perry is now a virtual prisoner in her apartment.
She doesn't have a ramp to get inside, so she usually leaves the wheelchair under a tarp in the back yard.
"It was chained, padlocked, covered with a tarp, and a mattress blocking it," she said.
But, someone cut the chain and stole the chair last week.
It's worth $6,300.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Carl Stevens reports
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Perry told WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Carl Stevens that the chair is her independence and the loss of it prevents her from doing things to make her grandson happy.
"They've got to be a sick person or a very evil person to do something like that because they don't realize what that chair meant to me or they just don't care," she said.
She adds that Medicare covers one new chair every five years, and she's not eligible to get another one until 2014.
Fortunately for Perry, Jean Accolla says her husband heard the story on the news this morning.
Accolla says her family purchased a chair for her father-in-law a few years back, but he passed away a short time later.
"We held onto it saying there's got to be somebody someday who really needs it," Accolla told WBZ NewsRadio 1030. "I think we've found a person we can give it to."
