Posted on 03/15/2023 1:25:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
Mercyhurst University is conducting an investigation after a video emerged appearing to show one of their student-athletes pushing a disabled student’s wheelchair down the stairs at a local nightclub.
According to Fox News, a video showed Carson Briere, who plays on the school’s hockey team and is the son of the Philadelphia Flyers interim general manager Daniel Briere, walking up the stairs with a friend. After talking to another man, the two of them appeared to take the wheelchair from the corner and roll it down the stairs.
The wheelchair apparently belonged to a disabled young woman, who is also a student at the university, and she had to be carried down the stairs afterward to use the bathroom.
Mercyhurst University responded to the firestorm that erupted on social media after the video emerged, saying that they were conducting an investigation into the affair.
“Late this afternoon, Mercyhurst University became aware of a disturbing video in which one of our student-athletes is seen pushing an unoccupied wheeler chair down a flight of stairs at a local establishment. Our Office of Student Conduct and Department of Police and Safety are investigating,” the university wrote on social media.
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This is certainly relevant to the subject at hand...
Pushing the wheelchair down the stairs is not simply about property damage. In fact, to me that is not so important. The real point is what does it say about a young man who would do such a thing? How does he do something that he should know will cause a problem for a disabled person? Whatever it says about him, it is nothing good.
The damage to the chair could cost this young girl mobility for several days...
Dumb question: Why was the chair empty if it’s used by someone who “lives in it?”
If you read, you’ll see that the nightclub’s restrooms were downstairs...She had been carried down to use the restroom...The wheelchair was sitting there awaiting her return...
We gimpy-persons often “transfer” to other seating arrangements by severe human effort, and park our chairs out of the way. If anyone did that to my chair, I’d bash them in the knee with the closest heavy object.
What?
some drunk thoughtless teens roll a wheeled object down a flight of stairs at a bar?
Was it the correct thing to do? Of course not.
However. Not worth more attention than a private discussion with Dean and the person who was using the chair.
The unknowing or uninitiated are amazed at what can be done by an experienced user. I may be a 69-year old paraplegic who cannot stand upright or walk unassisted, but due to the grace of God, I still have limited use of a few muscles in my legs, allowing me to climb stairs while death-gripping two handrails. I can go down stairs in my chair, backwards; gangways to floating docks too. If you don’t learn to adapt, life gets very hopeless, very quickly.
Yes, of course. The punk is a punk not just because of the damage to the wheelchair, but also his utter disregard for the person relying on it. I think he should pay for a new one, RIGHT NOW, and be tied into one for a few months so that he learns a valuable lesson. I know that won’t likely happen, but he needs to learn a lesson in humility, pronto.
“I can go down stairs in my chair, backwards...”
That’s dang impressive! I think I’d be scared to death. Even going down stairs on crutches was always a tense experience when I had to do it.
At least it was unoccupied.
Cat lady forum roar
The attention is pertaining to the use of the “wheeled object”...
Kinda like the “stick on a socket” that fits on what is left of my right leg that allows me to walk...
Thank u
Teenager, huh. He’s 23.
Exactly....
There was no one in the chair. He needs to pay for the damage, and inconvenience to the owner, but no one was hurt physically.
It seems counter-intuitive, but backwards is much easier.
So her mobility is of no concern?????
Posters know why it was there, it belonged to a girl who had to be carried into the restroom, leaving the chair behind.
And you're OK with someone pushing the wheelchair down the stairs, regardless of who it belonged to?
The chair obviously belonged to someone who needed it or else it wouldn't have been there.......
You're further evidence of the decline of both civility and common sense on this site........
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