[nagdu] Some one stole my cane !

Tue Dec 20 14:30:49 UTC 2011

But how would a broken cane be of any use to you? Dan's idea of a tree limb works better if only for the length. 
That's like saving old shoes with holes in them. What am I missing? 

And if something is truly precious to you and you use it every day, you don't loose it. Or if you do, you have insurance.
And now I'm wondering if there is a cane buy-back or trade in program somewhere. So if you couldn't use your old stash of canes, could you have traded them for a batch you could use? 

You totally lost me with the light cane and the go to meetin cane. I'm sorry. Why not see if you can get one you use normally and then a couple duplicates of that cane? 
What am I missing?

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tami Kinney
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:00 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Some one stole my cane !

Rebecca,

Well, it's true that none of us can rule out any possible reason another 
individual might see fit to remove a white cane from a tight pouch on 
the back of a wheelchair while the wheelchair's owner is using her guide 
dog for an O&M tool at the time.

However, your comments about canes and spares does assume a greater 
budget than some of us have. So those of us with lesser budgets hang on 
to broken canes just in case because if we lose the one we have that 
isn't broken somehow, we are just screwed and dead in the water, can't 
go nowhere safe, all that. Sigh.

When my budget was under less pressure, I ended up with more canes and 
more kinds of canes than you can shake a stick at. /lol/ Then, on 
accounta the injuries and bills and all that resulted in my having less 
spare in my budget, I had to obtain different canes since I could not 
use the ones I already had without losing whatever use was left in or 
had returned to my hands and wrists and all at the time. This was a 
major crisis for me and I had to miss meals. Now I have one of those 
very light canes that I call my "park cane." I use it in risky places 
where it is more likely to come to harm so that I will then still have 
my "Sunday go ta meetin'" cane which does not look so battered and is 
better suited for formal occasions... Which reminds me, I need to order 
a new free white cane to have a backup to that one. Just in case! 
Because if that one gets broken or lost or stolen and for some reason I 
need to go somewhere without using my guide dog, that will be a major 
crisis for me.

I'd had a bit of a crisis from losing track of my thin folding "purse 
cane" or "pocket cane" and just couldn't squeeze out the extra money to 
replace it... Then I found it again, so when I am out using my guide 
dog, I can have that on me, just in case I have to get somewhere in a 
hurry with it but don't want to end up crippled from using one of my 
heavy folding canes from when I had money to acquire a ton of them. So 
for me, having my pocket cane stolen, would be a really big deal.

Theft is an outrage in any circumstance. But stealing someone's eyes??? 
Doesn't matter if it's your cane, for which you sensibly have spares and 
through hard work can afford to replace; or if it is someone whose 
circumstances have them living on a shoestring and hoping they don't 
starve before they can get themselves into better straits. I still think 
it's pretty outrageous.

Then again, since you know of the meals by my favorite chef I currently 
eat day in and day out, you know that you do not need to worry about my 
imminent starvation or deprivation on that score. /grin/ I still scrimp 
on the cane budget for other accessibility and adaptive stuff, though. 
And when that one cane of mine did walk off, it was a problem at the 
time. Sigh.

Tami

On 12/19/2011 11:53 AM, Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC) wrote:
>          Maybe the person needed it? I met a family that was new to this country, had a member that was blind and wanted to know where to get a cane. I'm not sure they knew what a cane was until they saw me using mine, thought "What a cool idea" and came over to talk to me.  If I'd had another one on me, I'd have probably given them the one I was using.
>
>   They were hoping/expecting you could just buy one at any store.
>
> And, why not buy a few backup canes that meet your needs? I treat canes like shoes, I have one I use but I also have a few backups that meet my needs, a broken cane serves me no purpose so I don't hang onto them, just as I wouldn't hang onto shoes I couldn't wear. Ditto for a cane that is too long, it'd be like hanging onto shoes that were too small.
>
> Since this seems to happen a fair bit to you, can you keep the cane say in something you hang onto like apurse? Or just keep the strap around your wrist so you are in contact with it when it isn't in use?
>
> What happened was wrong, I'm just not feeling the outrage the list seems to be feeling here.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Brittney N. Mejico
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 6:27 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Some one stole my cane !
>
> That is really awful who would do such a thing.  Hope you get a new cain
> soon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mardi Hadfield
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 12:59 AM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nagdu] Some one stole my cane !
>
> Hi every one, Mardi here. I went Christmas shopping the other day and some
> one stole my white cane.I keep it in a leather holster type of pouch
> attached to my wheelchair when I am not using it. It is quite snug fitting
> so it is impossible for it to have fallen out.When I left the store and
> headed to the bus station,I reached for it so I could get into the
> wheelchair bay when I got on the bus. It was not their! I had it when I got
> off the bus so it disappeared somewhere between the bus station and the
> store.The only time I use it when I have my dog with me is getting on or
> off the bus.This is the second time someone has stolen a cane from me. This
> is extremely annoying as I can not afford to buy another one until next
> month.I have an old broken one and a very long NFB cane as a back up. Today
> when I went out to pay a bill,I had to use the very Long NFB cane as I did
> not take the dog with me in Carla's car.This cane would be fine if I were
> walking but is way to long for use with a wheelchair.It also has a mettle
> tip which gets caught in every crevice and pokes me in the face.I don't
> know why someone would want to steal a blind person's cane??????? Fake
> service dogs, now fake blind people? What is happening to this world.
> Mardi and Shaman
>
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