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• Enjoy The Vacation: Ideas On Safe Wheelchair Travel

  
  Vacation + Travel Blog Find your Holiday! — Authority: 146
  Increased emphasis on public accessibility for disabled people has opened up a whole new world for easier wheelchair travel. From walkways to buildings, people in wheelchairs are experiencing more freedom. With more ramps, curb cuts, elevators, wider doorways and automatic door openers in public buildings, disabled ...
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• An Almost-New Wheelchair

  
  Forced to Sit Still and Shut Up -- Life Before, and During ALS — Authority: 99
  Its Christmas Eve and I am getting ready to go to my family tomorrow for the day.  I am honored to be invited to a New Years Eve party on Long Island, but there are challenges getting me there, so I might not be able to go.  The lady willing to drive me has an SUV with no back seat, so I would have to lie reclining ...
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• Aavans.com Short and Long term wheelchair users want the same thing – convenience.

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 142
  Aavans.com Short and Long term wheelchair users want the same thing – convenience. The view that wheelchairs are restrictive is an example of ignorant and regressive thinking. This is because in some ways, wheelchairs can be liberating for those who would otherwise have been robbed of their ability to live their ...
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• Hey Metra, fix my elevator

  
  RedEye — Authority: 564
  A Metra rider wrote to Metra and cced "Going Public" about an elevator problem. "I am writing to you with the hope you can help me resolve an elevator issue. The elevator to which I am referring is the one for the handicapped at Randolph and Michigan Avenues. Im in a wheelchair and have been a Metra rider for the ...
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• Post office hostage drama in US state of Virginia ends

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A man suspected of taking hostages in a post office in the US state of Virginia has been arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours, police say. Authorities in Wytheville persuaded Warren Taylor to give himself up and release three people he was holding. Mr Taylor was reported to have entered the post office ...
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• Post office hostage drama in US state of Virginia ends

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A man suspected of taking hostages in a post office in the US state of Virginia has been arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours, police say. Authorities in Wytheville persuaded Warren Taylor to give himself up and release three people he was holding. Mr Taylor was reported to have entered the post office ...
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• Cheap Electric Scooters

  
  sherrill brown recommends — Authority: 138
  With the current economical pressures in America, many people of all ages are looking for cheap electric scooters. Besides the fact that electric mobility scooters are easier to operate, senior citizens and the handicapped also find that using an electric scooter is better than a wheelchair. The problem many are ...
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• Wytheville Post Office Crisis Is Resolved

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Ranjan BhaduriDec.24, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The crisis going at the Wytheville Post Office has been finally resolved. According to the reports, a man managed to enter the post office with a wheelchair, that had explosives wrapped around it. Thereafter he managed to take some people inside as hostages. However, the man ...
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• Wytheville Hostage,Wytheville Va News

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 166
  TrendPK.com Wytheville Hostage,Wytheville Va News:According to police sources, a man with explosives of five pounds has entered in a post office building in Wytheville and took people inside hostage. The explosive is strapped to a wheel chair and is enough to take out the whole block and grenades have been found [...]
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• Hostage standoff at US post office ends

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 24 (DPA) An eight-hour hostage standoff at a post office in the eastern US state of Virginia ended late Wednesday after an armed man in a wheelchair was taken into custody.The man entered the post office in Wytheville, a small town in south-western Virginia, late in the afternoon, pushing a wheelchair ...
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• Va. post office standoff ends peacefully

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  State police say a daylong standoff at a small-town Virginia post office has ended with three hostages being released and a suspect in custody.
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• Post office hostage taker caught

  
  Postal News Network — Authority: 119
  Police have apprehended a gunman who took five people hostage in a post office in the US, according to local media reports. "... Police had tried to negotiate with the man in a wheelchair who reportedly demanded a pizza as part of his terms...."  Source: www.heraldsun.com.auVisit Our Homepage
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• Gunman surrenders at Va. post office

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WYTHEVILLE, Va., Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A gunman with explosives who had held hostages for about eight hours at the Wytheville, Va., Post Office apparently has surrendered, police said. The man rolled himself onto the street in a wheelchair and was lying on the ground on his stomach as about 20 officers wearing shields ...
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• 5 Held Hostage at Rural Virginia Post Office

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  An armed man pushing a wheelchair took five hostages Wednesday at a post office in western Virginia, forcing police to send in a SWAT team and cordon off three blocks of a downtown filled with holiday shoppers. (Dec. 23)
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• Wytheville post office crisis: Wheelchair-bound gunman armed with explosives … – New York Daily News

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 172
  ABC News Wytheville post office crisis: Wheelchair-bound gunman armed with explosives ... New York Daily News The Wytheville Post Office where five people are being held inside by a wheelchair-bound gunman reportedly armed with explosives. ... Hostage situation in Wytheville Post ...
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• Five Held Hostage in Wytheville Post Office, Shots Fired – WOWK

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 172
  ABC News Five Held Hostage in Wytheville Post Office , Shots Fired WOWK Shots have been fired from the post office , according to people in the area. Police are asking for people in a four block radius to evacuate the area. ... Hostage situation in Wytheville Post Office , man in ...
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• Man in wheelchair holds 5 hostage at Wytheville Post Office

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Wytheville, Virginia Mayor Trent Crewe says a disabled man entered the post office around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. The man fired one shot. He’s holding 3 postal workers and 2 customers hostage. Crewe said there are unconfirmed reports that man may have a device on him. The man’s car outside the post office ...
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• Hostage situation in Wytheville Post Office, man in wheelchair claims to have … – Examiner.com

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 172
  ABC News Hostage situation in Wytheville Post Office , man in wheelchair claims to have ... Examiner.com According to reports by WDGJ 7, a man entered the Wytheville post office today in a wheelchair and claiming to have explosives. Authorities are unsure how ... Five Held Hostage in ...
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• Gone Postal For Christmas

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  OMG, a one legged man with a craving for pizza has taken 5 people hostage at a small rural Post Office in western Virginia. It is believed three of the hostages are employees and the other two are customers. The hostage negotiators are on the phone with the wheelchair bound man as we speak and he’s told them there ...
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• Armed one-legged man in wheelchair holds five people hostage in post office

  
  Calvin Palmer's Weblog — Authority: 125
  By Calvin Palmer A man in a wheelchair, armed and believed to be carrying hand-grenades took five people hostage today at a post office in a rural town in Virginia. Shots were fired and police cordoned off a three-block area in Wytheville. A SWAT team, including a bomb technician, has been sent to the incident. The ...
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