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Disabled Mugger Attacks Student, Speeds Off In Wheelchair (Annanova) June 26, 2004- Police are searching for a mugger who attacked a student and then sped off in a wheelchair. The Sun says the disabled thief grabbed the 22-year-old victim's takeaway Chinese meal on a Northampton street. When the student protested, the mugger's accomplice punched him in the face. The two muggers then sped off, leaving their victim bruised and bleeding. Police said: "The offenders were laughing during their crime."

He who flips the bird flips off chair Appleton man injures his arm telling off a train Associated Press Posted: July 21, 2004 Appleton - A man in a wheelchair who makes obscene gestures to the crews of passing trains was injured when he got a little too close to one of them, police said. A gas tank on a train engine clipped the wheelchair of Leland Laird, 54, on Tuesday evening, causing him to fall out of the damaged chair and injure his arm, police said. Laird told officers he has used a wheelchair since 1989 when a car...

Police say 67-year-old pointed gun, threatened them GARY L. WRIGHT Staff Writer A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed a 67-year-old man in a wheelchair early Wednesday morning after authorities said the victim pointed a handgun at officers and threatened them. Police wouldn't say how many shots were fired or where the gunfire struck Alexander Ehrenburg. Police spokesman Keith Bridges told reporters that Ehrenburg, a double amputee, was shot at his home on Amity Springs Drive near Sharon Amity Road after he pointed a handgun at police officers and refused to put it down. Ehrenburg did not fire at the...