# It's a miracle! Police can cure the paralyzed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570 "2006-05-12T20:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570/1 "2006-05-12T20:54:55Z")
Call the Vatican! Apparently arresting a paralyzed individual [can cure the affliction](http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060511/2006-05-11T222603Z_01_N112251_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-WHEELCHAIR-DC.html)! I hope she has to pay back all the money she got in her lawsuits. As Bugs Bunny would say…“What a maroon!” Disclaimer: I am not making fun of the disabled. Only those who pretend to be so. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570/2 "2006-05-12T21:05:11Z")
Wow. Takes some guts to file suit against somebody when there are outsanding warrants out for your arrest in two states… I would assume they’d run a check on something like that… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570/3 "2006-05-13T04:43:20Z")
Next thing you know, the Duke brothers are going to bet a dollar on whether or not they can turn her into a successful commodities trader… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570/4 "2006-05-13T13:10:33Z")
Somehow it’s appropriate that she was found in Las Vegas, where miracles can happen. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570/5 "2006-05-14T02:12:51Z")
I knew a guy who was in a minor car accident in Florida - his fault. The other guy claimed he had suffered a serious back injury that made it painful to walk, required extensive treatment, prevented him from working, etc. This went on for some time and was beginning to look like a serious problem, until one of those hurricanes came along. The “injured” guy was in construction and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work for some great wages repairing damage. The insurance company managed to shoot a video of him hauling lumber around, climbing ladders, working on a roof, etc. It was a miraculous recovery from a major injury. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-miracle-police-can-cure-the-paralyzed/356570/6 "2006-05-14T02:17:39Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Wow. Takes some guts to file suit against somebody when there are outsanding warrants out for your arrest in two states… Or massive amounts of stupidity.