by Kevin Burton What I see 20 feet away, you can see 200 feet away. By definition therefore, I am legally blind. So you would think, all other things being equal, my career as a jaywalker could/should be painfully short, or maybe even disastrously shortened. I was very nearly run over by …
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Blind Man Arrested For Wrong “Crime”
by Kevin Burton Blind people: use your canes! Or else, say police in Columbia County, Florida. Two Sheriff’s deputies have been suspended after they arrested 61-year-old James Hodges for “resisting arrest.” Hodges, who is legally blind was carrying a folded cane in his back pocket. One of the deputies mistook the cane …