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Thieves Steals Disable Teen’s Wheelchair Ramp!!!
March 6th, 2010 | 
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UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTWPR-fFbc0
A 17-year-old is a prisoner in his own home after someone stole his Wheelchair ramp Thursday afternoon.
Dylan Shotts suffers from muscular dystrophy and needs the ramp to leave his home. His mother discovered that the portable steel tri-fold ramp was missing Thursday morning.
Renee Shotts, who suffers from lupus and diabetes herself, has filed a police report. She spent the day searching scrap yards to see if someone had stolen the ramp to sell for scrap.
Both Dylan and Renee are hoping whoever took the ramp is caught quickly. If you have any information about the theft, contact Roseville Police.
Duration : 0:2:8
2008 Scouts build wheelchair ramp for Pflugerville man
This story by KXAN shows Boy Scouts from Troop 4277 in the Capitol Area Council, building a Wheelchair ramp for a man with no legs and missing his lower right arm. Community service is a key to the Scouting program, and Scouts are always looking to “do a good turn daily”.
Duration : 0:1:20
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Tags: Boy, good, pflugerville, Scouts, service, Texas, turn, Wheelchair | 
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Not sure if this can be answered. How to get wheelchair bound patients on to a bus with no lift?
An exhibit bus is coming through town but has no lift. How would you get wheelchair patients up onto it to see the exhibit? It is a very old bus. Could car ramps be used through the back emergency exit? Please no jokes. This is for nursing home patients.
The fastest approach is to have a very strong person lift the Wheelchairs and carry them onto the bus. Make sure that the person is careful not to drop the occupied wheelchairs.
A better approach is to construct a temporary ramp with plywood.
Still another approach is either
a) rent a U-Haul, Ryder, etc., truck with its deck at the same height as the bus emergency exit, push the wheelchairs up the ramp of the truck, and park the vehicles back-to-back, so that you can roll the wheelchairs from one vehicle to the other
b) get a bus with a lift, park the buses so that their emergency exits align, bring the wheelchairs onto the bus with the lift, and then roll them out one emergency exit and into the other.