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Prosthetic leg stolen from California blade-runner

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A leading U.S. amputee athlete seeking to compete in next year’s Paralympic Games in Brazil has been sidelined from training after his $30,000 prosthetic running leg was stolen from his car in San Francisco, he said on Thursday. The prosthesis, consisting of a carbon fiber blade and titanium, hydraulic-operated knee socket, had been specially designed to allow Ranjit Steiner to bend his right leg with human-like mechanics when he runs, he said. Steiner said he had been driving to work on Tuesday, his 24th birthday, when he realized that a rear window of his car had been smashed – apparently while parked on the street overnight in the Mission District – and he discovered that his laptop computer and prosthesis had been stolen. “There’s no value to anybody who can’t use this thing,” he said of the artificial leg.