'It's incredible!': Woman with disability gets her stolen trike back

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'It's incredible!': Woman with disability gets her stolen trike back Ottawa Citizen

Sandy Hill, Ottawa - The trike came back.

Not the very next day, but Thuy Do was still ecstatic that the recumbent trike she called her “freedom” was handed in to police Friday night, 10 days after a thief cut the lock and stole it in Lowertown.

The $4,400 Catrike 5.5.9 customized for Do’s disability is a little worse for wear — thieves stripped the back wheel and headrest — but she hopes to resume criss-crossing the city by next week after a visit to a mechanic.

“It’s incredible,” Do said Saturday. “I have to thank everyone that participated spreading the word.”

Police told her a man giving what appeared to be a fake name dropped her wheels off at the police station in what was a “very, very unusual” event.

“I cried,” Do said. “I wanted to give the police (officer) a big hug.”

Instead, she copied her three-year-old niece’s gestures and gave some very enthusiastic air high fives.

A GoFundMe campaign launched by Do’s friends to buy her a replacement has been suspended after raising $2,640 of its $4,000 goal and the organizer says she is working to return the donations.

Do, 28, suffered a stroke at age 15 that has left her with partial paralysis to half her body, even after gruelling rehab, and also affects her speech, learning and mood. She’s unable to ride a regular bike and has problems with her gait when she walks.

But her purple wheels will soon be back taking her from her family’s Nepean home to ...

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