A 61-year-old disabled woman surnamed Huang from Keelung City sells lottery tickets at Miaokou, 4 km from her home, relying on her electric mobility scooter to get there. In the small hours of Aug 11, on her way home, the scooter battery went flat, and she got stuck along Jhunghua Road. Chang Ying-hua, head of the Jhunghua Road sub-station of the Fourth Police Precinct, spotted a couple of his colleages pushing Huang’s mobility scooter for her, so he followed them in his patrol car, lighting the way for them with his headlights. They pushed her for a kilometer and got her home safely. Huang said, “Whether I’m selling lottery tickets or my scooter battery dies, I always run into kindhearted people. I was very moved.”
Huang has poliomyelitis and lives alone in a red brick house on Wenhua Road. Every day she rides her mobility scooter to the post office at Miaokou, where she sells lottery tickets, not returning home until the small hours of the morning. When Typhoon Soudelor hit Taiwan two weeks ago, many houses experienced power cuts. Huang stayed at home that day, but didn’t notice that the mobility scooter battery was not fully charged.
(Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper)
基隆市六十一歲黃姓婦人行動不便，靠電動代步車到四公里外的廟口賣彩券，八月十一日凌晨返家途中電瓶沒電，代步車在中華路上動彈不得。第四警分局中華路分駐所長張英華發現，由兩名同仁幫黃婦推車，他開巡邏車在後打燈照路，推了一公里，平安送婦人回家。黃婦說，「不論賣彩券或是車沒電，都遇到善心人，我真的很感動。」
Photo: Wu Cheng-feng, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者吳政峰
黃姓婦人患有小兒麻痺症，獨居在文化路一間小紅磚厝，每天靠電動代步車到廟口旁的郵局賣彩券，至凌晨才回家。兩周前蘇迪勒颱風來襲，不少住戶斷電，黃婦在家中休息，卻忽略代步車電瓶未充飽。
(自由時報記者吳政峰)
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