[Nyagdu] Cops: Man not blind enough for dog

[cheryl echevarria]

This came from another list, not sure if NAGDU has seen this, since I am not on the NAGDU list anymore and just NYAGDU.
 
My issues are not with him being arrested for what he did that was illegal which was using a stolen credit card. It is the issues with the man not blind enough for a dog. How dare people!
 
I get it all the time, since I have some vision. The school wouldn't have given me a dog unless I qualified for one.
 
We really need to educate more about the people that get the flack I feel, the ones that still have some kind of vision. I tell people who say to me, oh you are not blind, you can see this or do that.
 
I say depending on how they are saying it to me.  "You do not know what I see and how well I can see it. You are not in my shoes and looking out through my eyes."
 
It might sound harsh to say. But I mean really it is getting really annoying.
 
Cheryl
 
 From another list: 
>  
> Cops: Man not blind enough for dog
>  
> Published: Thu, October 24, 2013 @ 6:51 p.m.
>  
> http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/oct/24/cops-man-not-blind-enough-for-dog/?nw
>  
> youngstown, Penn. -- Coitsville police say Kenneth DeFiore is not blind.
>  
> DeFiore says otherwise.
>  
> But DeFiore could not produce paperwork for the guide dog he was using to
> help him get around, so Thursday the agency that placed the dog with him
> sent an employee from their base near Syracuse, N.Y., to get the dog - as
> DeFiore sits in the Mahoning County jail after his arrest last week on
> charges of receiving stolen property and misuse of a credit card.
>  
> Coitsville police Chief Michael Morris said New Castle, Pa., police are also
> looking at DeFiore, 55, as a suspect in the theft of the credit card he was
> charged with using illegally in Coitsville.
>  
> Morris said DeFiore was arrested Oct. 14 after he was spotted using the
> credit card at a restaurant and hotel near the state line. He said video
> cameras show him doing such things as reading the newspaper or signing on
> the exact spot a person is supposed to when they are using a credit card.
>  
> Christopher Flak, a humane agent for Animal Charity, said that when DeFiore
> was caught on video with the stolen card, he had the dog, a chocolate lab
> named "Gabby," with him.
>  
> Gabby is between five and seven years old and is in good shape except she is
> a couple of pounds overweight, Flak said. Flak said about a month before
> DeFiore was arrested, police asked humane agents to check on the condition
> of the dog and she appeared to be fine then although she did have a flea
> problem, Flak said.
>  
> "She's really a great dog," Flak said.
>  
> Humane agents were contacted about the dog again because when DeFiore was
> taken to the jail, arrangements had to be made to take care of his dog.
> Morris said that DeFiore had no current paperwork to show he is entitled to
> the dog, which came from Freedom Guide Dogs in Cassville, N.Y. When humane
> agents contacted them, the agency said it had been looking for Gabby for a
> while.
>  
> Morris said police have told DeFiore they believe he can see to some degree,
> but DeFiore insists he is totally blind.
>  
> The person who picked up the dog declined to comment on the case. A person
> who answered the phone at Freedom Guide Dogs said the agency had no comment.
>  
> Flak said it is disheartening that someone would take a guide dog with them
> when they commit a crime.
>  
> "It's just another example of abuse, but in a different way," Flak said.


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