…government regulations are requiring that their headquarters on the beach be made handicapped-accessible, even though the only people who ever use the two-story building are the lifeguards.
h/t EBD
…government regulations are requiring that their headquarters on the beach be made handicapped-accessible, even though the only people who ever use the two-story building are the lifeguards.
h/t EBD
What’s slower than a wheelchair in sand?
Any legislator.
Sounds like fun to me.
Two story wheelchair ramp with boogie/skateboard access.
Lifeguards could zip 20 feet off shore within 4 seconds.
Low tide might be a witch.
I smell trouble brewing for the lighthouse keepers.
being a gimp myself (double trans tibia amps) and havinge spent months in a wheelchair while the stumps healed, my personal observations on handicap access is:
Privately owned commercial buildings (stores, shopping malls, office buildings) are very good. Government run buildings, not so much. Lord forbid you need crutches or a wheelchair at my daughters NEW middle school as it is full of stairs (it’s built on a slope!). Don’t get me started on hospitals. You would think a hospital should be at the forefront of access but BUZZ! Wrong!
I guess the local Safeway has figured out gimps have cash to spend too and goes out of the way to make it easy for them to drop it at the check-out. Schools and hospitals need the money for wheelchair ramps to spend on improved staff lounge areas or transgendered washrooms.
My friend is a great swimmer who also is paralyzed from the waist down. He can do many things that most wouldn’t expect him to do, but he also knows where his skills cross the line. He would never put his issues on a podium just to be heard.
I think these bureaucrats need to have a beer with Mr. Freeman.
What’s next? Wheelchair accessible firetruck ladders?
Brain-dead regulations and regulators. What a surprise.
geez, norm, that sounds rough. Hope life’s treating you a bit better lately.
Who would be opposed to a simple CYA “no exceptions” decision for another continuing patronage sinkhole? Besides the taxpayers?
WE aren’t any different here in Canada. I was in the army posted to Petawawa, when at great expense they made all our units buildings wheel chair accessible. We didn’t have any funds to replace our maintenance building that was from the unit was still equipped with horses and we couldn’t get our trucks in and out of the old stalls, but they could afford new wheel chair ramps on Regimental headquarters. This was in the late 80’s
This is exactly why centrally planned economies do not work in a nutshell. Things that are obvious from the bottom up would take some kind of a supergenius to anticipate from the top down. Of course every lefty believes that they are that supergenius, the one who can make it work.
These decisions are easy when it’s someone else’s money
Kate, update headline @ Gord Tulk 1:29 🙂 FTW!
Bureaucrats instinctively exercise/abuse whatever power they have been entrusted with.
Municipal bylaw officers are frequent abusers.
Why are such personalities concentrated in bureaucracy—-instinctively pre-selected by the hiring bureaucrats…I suspect.
OMG! You’re telling me there are no handicapped lifeguards?
That’s good for a class action suit, which the DOJ will settle out of court for something like a half billion dollars in compensation for the lawyers who bring it, plus $50-100K each for every disabled person willing to say in writing that he or she at some time in the past wanted to be a lifeguard, but was dissuaded from that ambition because of fear of being discriminated against.
I wish, I sincerely wish, that I could imagine I was being sarcastic there.
Regards,
Ric
Don’t get me started on hospitals. You would think a hospital should be at the forefront of access but BUZZ! Wrong!
Norm @ 1:13 a.m.
Norm you sure have that right.
Example (and true story):
A one armed elderly man is given a hospital gown and told to tie up the back of it.
The Feds made all kinds of money available for handicap access. We redid our bathrooms, access ramps and had enough left over to pave the parking lot. We never hired any wheelchair bound people but the work was done. This money was available to the whole civil service so if access is poor, it also has poor admin. I didn’t think having someone in a wheelchair in a Chemistry lab was a good idea for their own safety but then I figured that is their choice. Someone will be around to help if bad things happen, same as anyone else.
Wallyj,yes,handicapped lifeguards are essential to show our humanity,however,I won’t be satisfied until they hire blind air traffic controllers,preferably in wheelchairs.
This ranks right up there with installing a screen door on a submarine.
No one can possibly exhibit such utter stupidity and still manage to exist day to day. I suspect this has something to do with the awarding of contracts to a friend of a friend.
As with most outrageously inane legislation … follow the money.
Why stop with the lifeguard tower? What about that ocean?
biffjr.
“This ranks right up there with installing a screen door on a submarine.”
Like most things this needs context…..
I don’t know but I suspect in times past that screen doors were very necessary on submarines.
Until the advent of nuclear propulsion, submarines were “submersibles” with their primary propulsion being diesels and a discretion rate(submerged) of much less than 50%.
Patrolling in the tropics (or summer arctic) without such would be foolish.
My favourites are the Braille No Smoking signs in elevators. Do they actually expect blind people to feel all the walls before determining what all of us already know?
You reap what you saw. You live in a society where saying ‘f4ck off’ is for some strange reason is not acceptable.
Kate, I’ll do you one better: wheelchair accessible fire halls. Hamilton’s got ’em.
The washrooms in the barraks here were recently remodeled. All now include wheel chair accessable toilets and shower stalls. In a building that is not wheel chair accessable, but govt regs stipulate each washroom must be so equipped.