Arrested -- for walking while disabled
LEXINGTON, KY, NOV. 13, 2003 -- In late October, Rebecca Sturgill was arrested for walking while disabled. She was trying to get to the public library.
Sturgill, who has both hearing and vision loss from meningitis, often appears -- to police, anyway -- as if she's drunk. A story in the Nov. 2 Lexington (KY) Herald Leader which reported on Sturgill's arrest noted that police have picked her up at least seven times in the past. "I can't help it," she told reporter Barbara Issacs. "It's from my eyes and my hearing loss."