You are a Sheriffs Deputy who has arrested a quadriplegic man on a traffic violation. You get him to the station for booking but you have a sneaking suspicion he might be faking it. How do you verify he is a quadriplegic?
A) Ask to call his doctor to verify his condition.
B) Flick him repeatedly to see if he could “feel it”.
C) Dump his ass out of his wheelchair and see if he catches himself before he hits the ground.
The real bitch, for the Deputy, is that this was all caught on video at the jail. Deputy Charlette Jones was relieved of her duties without pay for dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair. Sterner had broken his neck 14 years ago causing his quadriplegic condition. Sterner said he hit the floor so hard he thought he had broken two ribs. Later x-rays showed that he had not broken any ribs.
Hit the link for the jail surveillance camera video goodness.
NOTE: Yes, this post did teach me how to spell quadriplegic.
