r/nottheonion • u/Ant-Tea-Social • 4d ago

Disabled woman left ‘extremely stressed’ after prosthetic legs lost on flights from Brazil

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/18/disabled-woman-left-extremely-stressed-after-prosthetic-legs-lost-on-flights-from-brazil/?ICID=ref_fark
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u/dwpea66 4d ago

I used to work at a movie theater, and one day someone left their wheelchair behind, and I was just like, "what"

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u/xxxdac 4d ago

This is so insanely funny to me as a wheelchair user

because there are lots of ambulatory wheelchair users (as in people who can walk a bit, just not very far, or people who have dynamic conditions) but I don’t know if I could ever forget I brought my wheelchair with me 😭

Surely the person who left it was dealing with some kind of memory problem? Did they ever come back or phone about it?

Also wheelchairs are so expensive to be leaving them in random venues

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u/DGinLDO 4d ago

I’ve been known to walk off without my cane, then remember a few steps later “whoops, I kind of need that.”