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ROY — The only time you’ll catch Carsen Taylor indoors playing video games with his sibling is when it’s raining. The active young man loves outdoor activities.
"Anything and everything," the 24-year-old said. "I mostly [like] just staying in the mountains."
That is, of course, when he is not at work at the Firestone auto shop at 5702 S. 1900 West.
"Some days I will do oil changes all day; some days I will tear down motors. It just depends," Taylor said.
While at work on Saturday, Taylor started to feel sick. So, one of his coworkers drove him home. He left his car at work overnight, and the next morning discovered it had been broken into.
"[They took] my stereo, my subwoofer, my backpack full of all of my climbing equipment and my prosthetic," he said.
One of his prosthetic legs was in a backpack that was taken out of Taylor's unlocked car.
Three years ago, Taylor lost part of his left leg in a climbing accident. He now relies on his custom climbing prosthetic to do outdoor activities.
"I can climb with one leg, but it's limiting," he said, which is why he wants the people who took it to bring it back — no questions asked.
"It would have been cool if they looked in the bag and said, 'OK, maybe I shouldn't take this' and brought it back," he said
Taylor's friends raised money to buy the $12,000 prosthetic leg. He hopes the thieves have a change of heart and return it to his workplace.
