Stockton Woman Pleads For Return Of Stolen Wheelchair
STOCKTON (CBS13) — Misty Hare can't believe someone stole her electric chair right before Christmas. And now she's begging for it back.
"Please, return my chair. It won't do you no good," she pleads into a CBS13 camera on Tuesday night.
Misty can't walk very well.
"My mobility is not great," she told CBS13. "I fall real easily. I have seizures to go with it."
So she uses an electric wheelchair, but last week she headed out with her husband in her manual chair to go Christmas shopping.
And when she got back … "I noticed my front door was open," she says.
Someone had broken in and stolen her $6,800 electric wheelchair and charger.
"Oh my gosh, whose next on the list to get theirs' stolen?" she ask.
Misty believes whoever stole it, knew she had one. "Probably for drugs because this neighborhood is known for break-ins," she says.
It's the most expensive and important item she owned.
"I think it's cruel," she says. "Why taken something away from someone who needs it?"
So now she's forced to use her cane and rely on her husband to wheel her around all the time.
"It's a very hardship, just getting out and get going for me, it confines me to my house more," she says.
So she's hoping this story will help catch a thief and get her back the one thing she can't live without.
Misty says she filed a police report and she'll be contacting her insurance company hoping she'll get a new one, but if not, she's not sure what she's going to do.
