Posted on Apr 30, 2017
Shane Zahn, disabled Iowa man, filmed crawling out of store after employee takes away electric...
4.72K
27
11
7
7
0
This is different.
Shane Zahn, disabled Iowa man, filmed crawling out of store after employee takes away electric...
Posted from washingtontimes.com
People
Retail
Family
What Would You Do
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 7
5
5
0
PO3 (Join to see) thanks for the situational read/share. What is the world coming too. Serious!!
sporting goods retail chain has apologized after a video of a disabled Iowa man crawling out of a store on his knees because he was denied an electric cart in the parking lot exploded on social media.
Shane Zahn, who is missing his right foot, told local CBS affiliate KIMT that his son dropped him off in front of the Mills Fleet Farm in Mason City on Monday and an employee brought him an electric wheelchair to use while in the store.
Mr. Zahn, a Garner resident, said he normally has a manual wheelchair with him unless he knows he’s going to a store that provides an electric one.
But upon leaving the store, he said an employee demanded he return the wheelchair before proceeding to the parking lot.
“After I got out of the store, right in front of the door I was told I was not allowed to take the wheelchair out to the parking lot, and I said ‘huh?’ ” Mr. Zahn told KIMT. “I said, ‘I’ve done this before.’ She said, ‘the wheel chair is to not be out, it needs to come back in.’ I said, ‘what am I supposed to do, crawl out of the store?’ “
TSgt Joe C. SFC William Farrell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Stephen F. CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025 SGT Robert George SPC Margaret Higgins SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas Maj Marty Hogan SGT Damaso V Santana LTC Stephen Conway MSG Andrew White SGT (Join to see) SFC Dave Beran SP5 Robert Ruck SGT Philip Roncari SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth 1stSgt Eugene Harless SFC Shirley Whitfield
sporting goods retail chain has apologized after a video of a disabled Iowa man crawling out of a store on his knees because he was denied an electric cart in the parking lot exploded on social media.
Shane Zahn, who is missing his right foot, told local CBS affiliate KIMT that his son dropped him off in front of the Mills Fleet Farm in Mason City on Monday and an employee brought him an electric wheelchair to use while in the store.
Mr. Zahn, a Garner resident, said he normally has a manual wheelchair with him unless he knows he’s going to a store that provides an electric one.
But upon leaving the store, he said an employee demanded he return the wheelchair before proceeding to the parking lot.
“After I got out of the store, right in front of the door I was told I was not allowed to take the wheelchair out to the parking lot, and I said ‘huh?’ ” Mr. Zahn told KIMT. “I said, ‘I’ve done this before.’ She said, ‘the wheel chair is to not be out, it needs to come back in.’ I said, ‘what am I supposed to do, crawl out of the store?’ “
TSgt Joe C. SFC William Farrell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Stephen F. CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025 SGT Robert George SPC Margaret Higgins SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas Maj Marty Hogan SGT Damaso V Santana LTC Stephen Conway MSG Andrew White SGT (Join to see) SFC Dave Beran SP5 Robert Ruck SGT Philip Roncari SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth 1stSgt Eugene Harless SFC Shirley Whitfield
(5)
(0)
SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
Sad deal, maybe the store wouldn't mind if someone started a picket in front of their store to draw attention to the injustice done.
(0)
(0)
3
3
0
That is despicable for anybody to take away an electric wheelchair from any disabled person, let alone a disabled veteran PO3 (Join to see). While it is a good sign that the Mills Fleet Farm in Mason City store has formally apologized for not allowing Shane Zahn to use the store's wheelchair to get back outside to be picked up by his son.
I home the woman employee who refused to allow him to use the wheelchair is severely disciplined for this cruel and needless action.
Thanks for alerting me SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
I home the woman employee who refused to allow him to use the wheelchair is severely disciplined for this cruel and needless action.
Thanks for alerting me SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
(3)
(0)
1
1
0
What a disrespectful thing she did! I would have made her attempt to get me out of that chair as I was dialing 911 for abuse of a disabled elderly!
(1)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google