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Wheelchair stolen from cruiser
A 75-year-old Tampa Bay man lost something unusual during his Carnival Line Cruise: a wheelchair.
Michael Karagiannakis had been using the chair since early December after suffering colon surgery complications that left his legs swollen and sore. The chair went everywhere with him on that Caribbean cruise: the pool, the ports, anywhere he had to walk more than 10 or 15 feet, reported TampaBay.com.
When the ship returned to Tampa, the crew had told him to leave the chair outside his room, along with his luggage, which would be waiting for him when he disembarked on.
The next morning, he came out of his room. “I get up, and I say, ‘Where’s my wheelchair?'”
The wheelchair has been missing for weeks now and Mr Karaginnakis has trouble getting around. But perhaps the worst part is that it was not even his own wheelchair.
“It was the VA’s,” said Mr Karagiannakis. “I don’t know if they’re going to ask for it back.”
Report by David Wilkening
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