[nagdu] blind man goes missing while traveling

[cheryl echevarria]

Having a guide dog or not is not in question here, the question is where is he.
Not everyone wants a guide dog for there own reasons.  He should have been found by now!

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> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:21:30 -0500
> From: leanicole1988 at gmail.com
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nagdu] blind man goes missing while traveling
> 
> CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Charlotte Mecklenburg Police are searching for
> a blind man who was reported missing after he didn't make his
> connecting train to Alabama.
> 
> The family of Mitchell Malik Smith, 33, said they haven't heard from
> him since December 16, the same day he traveled to Charlotte.
> 
> Police said Smith had arrived at the Amtrak station on North Tryon
> Street from Washington, D.C., but didn't make the connecting train to
> Birmingham, Alabama as scheduled.
> 
> According to police, Smith is legally blind in both eyes from an
> incident several years ago.
> 
> He is described as 5'11" tall with a slim build, with brown eyes and
> dark brown hair.
> 
> He has a scar on the right side of his head hear his right eye and a
> possible smaller scar on the left side of his head.
> 
> He is said to sometimes wear dark glasses and carries a red and white cane.
> 
> If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Mitchell Malik
> Smith, you are asked to call 911.
> 
> The part
> He is said to sometimes wear dark glasses and carries a red and white cane.
> gives me the cringe. I don't like this stario type or whatever it
> would be called. I know not all blind people wears sunglasses, and
> some might for their own reasons other than eye contact, like
> scarring. but it is a bit odd to be in doors or be wearing dirty
> glasses.
> But any how. I wonder what could have happened to this guy? And
> weather if having a guide dog would have helped him in any way? IDK.
> This is strange, how could he have just wondered off unless he was
> going to go off and get something at a restorant or store. What yall
> think?
> 
> Sorry if this was not a good list to put this on, if you have a better
> idea of whitch one to put it on, feel free to say so.
> 
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