Posted on 11/04/2005 4:18:20 AM PST by Gordon Pym
11-02) 22:37 PST Temple City, Calif. (AP) -- A thief walked off with 16-year-old Melissa Huff's prosthetic leg, sidelining the high school softball player from the game she loves. Such a leg costs about $5,000 to $7,000, said Huff's father, David, but can't really be used by anyone else because it was custom made. "It's not something you can just sell on the street. Something like that, it's just cruel," Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Tim Phillips said of the theft. The leg was taken sometime Tuesday afternoon by a thief who cut a hole in a window screen, entered Huff's home in this suburb about 12 miles east of Los Angeles and also took video games, about $1,500 in school fundraising scrip and other items. The stolen limb is a special shock-absorbent "sports leg" with a flexible foot that allows Huff to play softball. She has other prosthetic legs, including the one she was wearing the day of the burglary. The Arcadia High School sophomore's right leg had to be amputated two years ago after she was struck by a car.
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Hopping to find suspect! This is hugh!
Thats not very hip.
Sounds like the thief got a leg up.
The leg needed Lojack.
in a fair world, 3 hrs should be given to return the leg. if not done so, when the culprit is apprehended, his or her leg should be amputated. after an appropriate time, he or she would be given a prosthesis. case closed and no more prothesis thefts will be done. isnt it in leviticus where it says, the people will see these things and stop doing the evil among you. more or less.
I would think they'd be hopping to POUND suspect.
Public defender that represents this thief won't have a legal leg to stand on.
I hate it when that happens!
At least her name isn't Margaret.
in a fair world, 3 hrs should be given to return the leg. if not done so, when the culprit is apprehended, his or her leg should be amputated.
That seems a little extreme. How about we just break one of the thief's legs in seven places and make him crawl to the hospital?
Try to be series...
All the puns are good, really funny. On a little more serious side, have the police checked out the school's rival teams? I'm thinking someone wanted this girl on the sidelines. How good is she?
Giving Mellissa the nickname "Peggy" would be cruel. Her friends just call her "Eileen".
sorry, but having known a person who wore a fake leg, one cannot have any idea of the utter nightmare of not finding your leg can be. when i was a kid, one of my dads friends got his leg chopped off riding a tractor, well, he had no one, so he convalesced at our home. i was 7 or 8 at the time. besides being terrified of the man with no leg, my grandmother would always be cleaning the house and move his leg. you wanna talk about terrified screams? you havent heard anything like this, trust me. he would moan and say bring me my leg or bring me a knife so i can cut my throat. im not kidding. so you see, stealing a leg is not a funny matter to the legless. btw, he recovered, got married and had three kids, he did ok.
sick.................. but funny.
My wife's cousin lost the lower half of her leg in a farm mishap when she was a kid. She is a beutiful lady, and has a sense of humor about her prosthetic that would probably seem sick to outsiders. She would never "scream" about her mom misplacing her leg, but would robably make the kind of puns that are being made here. Different strokes, I suppose, but I think her attitude is healthier than freaking out and geting PC.
When I was a little kid in the early 60's, a local cabdriver who was WWII vet had a wooden leg. He delighted in showing it off to kids, especially, and who,like me, were totally fascinated with it. The adults were uneasy but understanding. Everyone called him "Pegleg" Thomas.......
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