Ranjit Steiner woke up on his birthday to find his running blade- a prosthetic leg, stolen from his car in San Francisco. Steiner runs for the City College in San Francisco and needs the leg to continue training. He is a hopeful for the 2016 Paralympics in Brazil. In a strange coincidence, police found a prosthetic leg leaning against a tree last week on the same day as Steiner's has gone missing. Ranjit Steiner told investigators that he did not even think that someone would think to take anything like that. He stated, "It's just so low. You never think anybody would take anything like that."
I think the saddest part about this is not how much the leg is worth, but how much it is worth to Ranjit. It is the chance he has been given to pursue what he has strived so hard to accomplish. This just shows you how some people think in our society. Money has become such a greedy need that some are willing to take away hope to gain wealth. Sure, there are larger scale problems occurring in our country besides a missing prosthetic leg, but it is still upsetting to think that a man who is working toward a future that would otherwise be impossible without the leg, is put on halt. Steiner is hoping the public will help in searching for the prosthetic. His next meet is scheduled for this weekend and it determines his acceptance into the Olympics. The cost of replacing the leg could be around $30,000, considering prosthetics are already expensive, but the parts are specific to Steiner's body. He states that he is just waiting for the leg in hopes to continue his season and hopes that the prosthetic leg will be found, thus allowing him to move forward and focus on his dream.
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