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This is Stupid !

I hope they throw the book at her. Cruelty to animals, public intoxication, hate crime, and anything else they can get to stick.
 
I am afraid this sort of behaviour is, unfortunately not uncommon. I am disabled, I broke my back ten years ago, although fortunately I can still walk for a short distance, but need to use a wheelchair if I am going to be 'walking' for more that a few minutes.

Among the things that have been said or done to me to me are:
I have been told that I shouldn't be allowed out in my wheelchair when the shops are busy.
"My sort ought to be put down."
I was pushed out of someones way because I was too slow getting onto a a train. If it wasn't for the quick thinking of a young lady, I may have gone under the train, one of my crutches did and the train was held up for over five minutes while it was recovered. The young lady grabbed me and stopped me falling (I was using the crutches as I had arranged to have a wheelchair to meet me at the other end of the journey, so didn't have mine with me)
My wife and I were threatened by a couple of yobs in a car park. They drove in far too quickly and parked diagonally across two disabled parking spaces and my wife, all 5'1" of her remonstrated with these yobs. She was holding my stick and I was sitting on the rear of my car getting my wheelchair out. One of the yobs threatened to shove the stick, in their words, "where the sun don't shine" I took the stick off my wife and offered it to the yob and suggested they might like to try doing just that. I am in my fifties, 6'1" tall and 17 stones (240lbs). One of the yobs, both in their twenties) went white and the other ran away.
I asked a taxi driver to move out of a disabled parking bay and was told to f**k off, I took a photo of his car with him in it and he leapt out and tried to drag me out of my car, but another taxi driver and traffic warden stopped him and he was arrested. He got a £100 fine for threatening behaviour and still drive a taxi.

I could go on with more examples, but you get the gist of how life can be if you are disabled.
Now I will admit I will not let these bast*rds intimidate me and sometimes allow myself to get into situations, but there are a lot more vulnerable people than me who will be intimidated.
 
sandar said:
I am afraid this sort of behaviour is, unfortunately not uncommon. I am disabled, I broke my back ten years ago, although fortunately I can still walk for a short distance, but need to use a wheelchair if I am going to be 'walking' for more that a few minutes.

Among the things that have been said or done to me to me are:
I have been told that I shouldn't be allowed out in my wheelchair when the shops are busy.
"My sort ought to be put down."
I was pushed out of someones way because I was too slow getting onto a a train. If it wasn't for the quick thinking of a young lady, I may have gone under the train, one of my crutches did and the train was held up for over five minutes while it was recovered. The young lady grabbed me and stopped me falling (I was using the crutches as I had arranged to have a wheelchair to meet me at the other end of the journey, so didn't have mine with me)
My wife and I were threatened by a couple of yobs in a car park. They drove in far too quickly and parked diagonally across two disabled parking spaces and my wife, all 5'1" of her remonstrated with these yobs. She was holding my stick and I was sitting on the rear of my car getting my wheelchair out. One of the yobs threatened to shove the stick, in their words, "where the sun don't shine" I took the stick off my wife and offered it to the yob and suggested they might like to try doing just that. I am in my fifties, 6'1" tall and 17 stones (240lbs). One of the yobs, both in their twenties) went white and the other ran away.
I asked a taxi driver to move out of a disabled parking bay and was told to f**k off, I took a photo of his car with him in it and he leapt out and tried to drag me out of my car, but another taxi driver and traffic warden stopped him and he was arrested. He got a £100 fine for threatening behaviour and still drive a taxi.

I could go on with more examples, but you get the gist of how life can be if you are disabled.
Now I will admit I will not let these bast*rds intimidate me and sometimes allow myself to get into situations, but there are a lot more vulnerable people than me who will be intimidated.
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Good for you! I wish you all the tactical luck you need.
:applause:
 
all i saw when i clicked on the link was a video of some wild turkeys atacking people.


sandar said:
Now I will admit I will not let these bast*rds intimidate me and sometimes allow myself to get into situations, but there are a lot more vulnerable people than me who will be intimidated.
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i say good for you, don't let them intimidate you. kick some tail if you gotta.
maybe next time they'll think first.
 
Sandar, good for you for not taking crap from people. Myself and my family are firm believers in the "what goes around, comes around" theory of life and it usually proves out in the long run. :d If you don't kick their a$$es somebody else probably will.
 
To me after viewing it a couple of time, it almost looks like she went out of her way to do what she did. What a tird.
 
Oh wow, thanks for the support guys, I really appreciate it. It is such a shame that there are a few who cannot cope with something as mundane as a disability.

Since I wrote my rant, two other bits of stupidity have occurred.

I was unloading some shopping onto the checkout belt when a large guy barged past me and pushed his way to the front of the queue. he only had a loaf of bread and I would have let him go first if I had seen him. The cashier told the guy that what he did was a bit rude. I quote the reply from the 'rude' shopper, He looked at me and said, "He's of no account, he nothing but a cripple" Now I have to admit that did shock me.
The store manager overheard him and demanded his name and address, which was not forthcoming until he was threatened with police action. When he informed the manager that he was attached to a consular official and had diplomatic immunity. He was banned from all branches of the supermarket chain (not sure how that will be enforced).

The other incident took place at the railway station where I had gone to meet my wife, she commutes into London daily. I had just opened one of the many doors into the concourse when a woman trod on my heel removing my shoe, then she pushed me in the back and told me to get a move on. A man held onto the door so it wouldn't swing, so I could lean onto it while I put my shoe back on again, but the impatient women barged past both of us, then pushed her way into the station, shouting she was in a hurry. Daft thing is, if she had an ounce of patience, she would have had a lot more time. The friendly guy said to me, if she had done that to him, he would have smacked her in the mouth.
 
Sandar , that is flat ignorance . He can take that " Diplomatic Immunity" and stick it where the sun doesn't shine . If I were a cop and observed this I might have gotten into trouble but I would have thrown his ignorant-sorry carcus into the most dirty cell I could find and then he could see how he likes his "Diplomatic Immunity" status then . You are an inspiring person and keep pushing on for the cause !

Rich
 
I an not an inspiration,just some aging bloke who has the wit ans common sense to know I have to get on with my life.

This little lad now, he is an inspiration.
 
i've heard similar stories from people who pass near the u.n. bldg.
frankly, i think immunity is stupid. if you can't follow the laws of the country, just don't go there. basic math
 
Apparently the store contacted the consular office and they denied everything and pointed the finger to one of their neighbours who has a history of doing this. Following a quick investigation the culprit was found and it turned out he is well known to the police. Basically he is a bit of a nutter and supposedly harmless, if offensive. He is still banned from the supermarket though.

I will also state that by far, the greater majority of people are perfectly OK and tolerant and lack any sort of discrimination. Some don't know how to handle or are uncomfortable when encountering disability. I will admit that I was one of them. I hope I am now a better person. I still get p1ssed off with some people though :kilroy:
 
I'd be tempted to tell whoever said "he's just a cripple" that they are mentally and emotionally crippled.
 
As the disabled victim of this verbal abuse, I was offended, but if the abuser turns out to be mentally 'disabled', then who am I to condemn him? But if he is just an ignorant and offensive guy, then he deserves condemning
 
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