The last 5 weeks for the Minnesota Vikings:
- Rookie CB passes away
- Starting WR gets DUI
- Starting CB tears ACL first day of practice
- Other starting CB gets hurt second day
- First round QB tears meniscus, out for season
- Starting WR carted off practice field
This guy ain't it. Nonsense to take a diagnosis (of which many have spent so much time into proving it cannot dictate your life) and make it your scapegoat is a disservice to yourself and the diabetes community
NEW: Man who punched a disabled man in Manhattan may avoid jail time after blaming the attack on his *diabetes.*
The NYC justice system is moronic.
Andrew Caban is blaming his diabetes for sucker-punching 61-year-old Richard Regen.
It gets worse. Regen was forced to undergo brain surgery due to the attack, spent 30 days in the hospital and now lives with frequent seizures.
At the time of the attack, he was headed to rehab for his stroke he suffered a couple years earlier.
Caban says he is "sorry" that his diabetes caused the attack.
"I’ve suffered diabetes for a very long time from a very young age. I’ve had hypoglycemic episodes previously, and I’m so sorry this has happened," he said in Manhattan Criminal Court.
"I was reckless. There were no intentions at all. I had no intentions to harm him."
Caban is trying to claim he didn't "fully recall" what happened because of his diabetes.
Caban faced up to a year in jail but pleaded guilty to reckless assault in the third degree which means he may get off with "just a slap on the wrist" under a sweetheart plea deal. (NY Post)
Insane.
From someone who also lives with Type 1, this guy is dead wrong. Symptoms of high blood sugar include irritability, increased urination, and fatigue. They do not, under any circumstances, include making racist and hurtful comments