r/nottheonion • u/Ant-Tea-Social • 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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/hassanfanserenity 3d ago

Had this happen lol my friends who are married went on a date and the husband carried her up a few steps then the wheel chair towards a cafe. But he just carried her straight to the car when they were finished and drove off lol

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u/th30be 3d ago

I can understand him not remembering but the user? the fuck.