The Blues Isn’t About Feelin’ Better, It’s About Makin’ Other People Feel Worse

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  1. Excellent point! Just like Man – made global warming is not real. Just like the theory that humans will evolve into creatures that have pointy fingers like the Predator because of eons of poking their devices like cell phones.

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  2. They left out: Lets sue the owner of that business into bankruptcy so that the 2 wheelchairs a decade that might have gone in there won’t have to worry about it any more.
    The ADA was created for one reason: to extort more money from businesses who have to pay them a percentage of the “value” of all the ridiculous extra work needed to make a building COMPLY!!! or else. I worked on a bathroom in a 100 year old building that, according to the official party rules on “accessible” use did NOT COMPLY!!11!!!! There was one person who said it did, the plumber….his daughter was in a wheelchair and he said she would have no problem using it. And the other…issue? The bathroom was on the 2nd floor of a building with no elevator, so it didn’t bleeping matter in the first place!

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    • Yep, you took the words right out of my keyboard. There are people who make a living out of being professional ADA plaintiffs. They search around for non-compliant businesses (usually in older buildings or shopping centers built before the ADA), attempt entry (usually successfully), then sue because the ramp wasn’t close enough to the door, or the handicapped parking space was six inches too narrow, or the sink in the restroom was one inch too high. The expense of the alterations can drive a business, as you noted, into bankruptcy. These professional plaintiffs feel very, very good about themselves – champions of the handicapped! Never mind all of the lost jobs and ruined lives, because a perfectly accessible parking space was not precisely where a regulation required it to be.

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    • Last week the local news in San Jose had a story about an 80 year old local diner being put out of business just like that, being sued out of business over his rest rooms by a local character who does that for a living.

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    • I can top that. A local Amish store owner who built a new store building was forced to install a handicapped accessible bathroom even though the building has no electricity, running water or sewage.

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