Posted on 03/24/2012 8:31:26 PM PDT by Larry381
CARY -- Seated in his wheelchair, Nolan Turner, 12, staked out his neighborhood Thursday evening to sell water bottles and raise money to bring his wheelchair basketball team to his elementary school.
“Everybody at school has been asking me what it’s like to (play basketball) in a wheelchair, and I want to show them,” the Briarcliff Elementary fifth-grader said.
He had already collected more than $250 – kept in a bucket – of the $1,000 needed to bring the experience of playing wheelchair basketball to his schoolmates.
But as he began to work the neighborhood near High Meadow Drive about 6:30 p.m., a man he didn’t recognize grabbed his money bucket and unhurriedly walked away, according to Cary Police Department Capt. Mike Williams.
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See #17 if you haven’t. Hint: you were very pessimistic.
it took the last paragraph to verify my intial thought was correct... that fkr should be shot on sight...
OUTSTANDING ! !
Surprise, surprise.......
“Police are still searching for the man who took the money. He is described as black male.....”
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