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Paralyzed Man Claims CHP Officers Left Him Stranded in His Wheelchair After Towing His Car

Paralyzed Man Claims CHP Officers Left Him Stranded in His Wheelchair After Towing His Car

When a law enforcement officer tells you to get out of the car, if you've ever seen even just one episode of "COPS," you know you'd damn well better get out. But what if you are a disabled motorist? Should you be treated any differently? more ›

San Diego or Bust! Smuggler Uses Wheelchair to Hide Pot in Botched Border Crossing

San Diego or Bust! Smuggler Uses Wheelchair to Hide Pot in Botched Border Crossing

Even if you sit on your pot and pretend to be disabled, those drug-sniffing dogs of the border patrol can still get wise to your plan. A 19-year-old man learned this lesson this weekend as he attempted to make it over the border from Mexico into the U.S. at San Ysidro,"the world's busiest land border crossing" (thanks, Wiki!) with five pounds of marijuna stuffed inside the seat of a wheelchair, according to KTLA. more ›

Cops Get Off for Hanging Quadriplegic Man, City Pays

Cops Get Off for Hanging Quadriplegic Man, City Pays

Cornell Greathouse was shot in the throat with a stray bullet from a gangster's gun in 1993 that left him paralyzed. He was dancing at the time. The injury made him a quadriplegic and confined him to a wheelchair. In January of 2005 while he was being arrested by four Pasadena police officers, he was removed from his chair and hung across a concrete wall so he could be searched. Because the quadriplegic are... more ›

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