Posted on 02/18/2006 11:23:46 AM PST by wagglebee
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second time in three months, a 16-year-old California girl who lost a leg in an accident has had her artificial limbs stolen.
Melissa Huff, an Arcadia High School student who uses a $16,000 prosthetic limb to play softball for the school team and another one, valued at $12,000, for everyday use, said both were taken from her bedroom Tuesday.
"I was picking up my little brother from school when my mom called me and asked where I left the two prosthetic legs," Huff, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City, told Reuters in an interview.
"I knew right then that it had happened again."
Lisa Huff, her mother, said she came home around midday on Tuesday and found the room shared by Melissa and her older sister a mess. Only the prosthetic limbs were missing.
Police say they were talking to the girl's friends, neighbors and relatives for information about the missing legs.
In November, thieves broke into the Huff residence and took just her prosthetic limb. After that incident, Melissa's prosthetist and a local real estate company donated about $16,000 for a new limb.
The stolen limb was discovered in the teenager's backyard about a month ago, apparently thrown there by the thieves.
Melissa lost her real leg two years ago when a driver accidentally ran into her as she stood in front of her middle school.
She said she intends to get back on the field this week and just practice throwing until she gets another prosthetic limb.
I've got four lefts. Anyone want to trade for a right?
Why would anyone steal prosthetic limbs. It's not exactly like you can take them to a pawn shop or sell them on ebay?
Geez. I am gobsmacked.
talk about cruelty! i hope they catch the thief!
Same here this is a horrable thing to do to the poor girl!
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"Girl's prosthetic legs stolen for second time"
I realize that this may not qualify as moral absolutes in the strictest sense, but any person that would do this is a vile piece of human garbage.
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I think this qualifies, since the thief is absolutelty the lowest, vilest, foulest life form on the planet today.
You're right. There is absolutely no excuse for such cruelty.
You think you're a funny guy??? Well-----> WALLY... you're more pathetic than funny.
You've gotta be a special kinda ahole to do something like that
Amputee fetishist. :-(
Well, it's not like a lot of thieves are rocket scientists, especially the meth and crackheads.
Hmmmm....
HUMP-PING? :/
Acually, it's hillarious... don't be so uptight...
no, I take that back...it was cruel... changed my mind, sorry...
There is low and then there is low. And it is hardto get lower then this.
what are you... bi-polar???
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