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I don't often drive, but there are occasions when it's a convienient
means of transport. I drove to Ikea today to buy a bed frame. In order to avoid the rush I arrived at 8.45, 15 minutes before opening time, so I had time to kill before the doors opened. I sat and watched fellow shoppers as they parked. I was pondering whether the driver of a black Mazda RX-8 was really disabled as he went into the disabled bay closest to the entrance door, and feeling smug that I'd bagged the (non-disabled) parking spot closest to the shop exit. I then heard a satisfying crunch. The driver had gone straight into a concrete bollard. And Oh what joy and poetic justice as a perfectly healthy (physically at least) man emerged from the deformed vehicle. A titter grew from my fellow shoppers during our grandstand view of the hapless driver's clear discontent at the sight of the damage. "I bet you wish you hadn't used a disabled bay!" yelled one amused shopper. "Perhaps you should rely on common sense instead of sat. nav." cried another wag. "Are you going to report the damage... to the bollard?" asked a third. I bet he didn't. |
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Tom Crispin wrote on 28/04/2007 19:11 +0100:
And Oh what joy and poetic justice as a perfectly healthy (physically at least) man emerged from the deformed vehicle. It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. -- Tony "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell |
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Tony Raven wrote:
It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. Indeed. But this git deserved all he got. |
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:29:16 +0100, John Hearns
wrote: Tony Raven wrote: It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. Indeed. But this git deserved all he got. Sorry, but how can you know? It would be nice to think it was an able bodied person snaffling a disabled bay but as Tony points out, you just can't tell. If he had, for example, heart failure, he would look fine until he exerted himself enough to bring on symptoms. |
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"John Hearns" wrote in message ... Tony Raven wrote: It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. Indeed. But this git deserved all he got. Why? |
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John Hearns wrote on 28/04/2007 20:29 +0100:
Tony Raven wrote: It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. Indeed. But this git deserved all he got. What did he deserve and why? -- Tony "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell |
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"Tom Crispin" wrote in message I drove to Ikea today to buy a bed frame. I believe threy can be strange sizes from Ikea. Jc |
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:50:12 +0100, Tony Raven
wrote: John Hearns wrote on 28/04/2007 20:29 +0100: Tony Raven wrote: It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. Indeed. But this git deserved all he got. What did he deserve and why? He deserved to be laughed at for a particularly stupid prang. OK, it wouldn't be so funny if it was a kid on a bike he drove into, but the fact that it was a bollard and that no one was hurt meant that it was amusing. And rough justice that he did it while parking in a bay reserved for people with particular needs. |
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Tony Raven wrote:
Tom Crispin wrote on 28/04/2007 19:11 +0100: And Oh what joy and poetic justice as a perfectly healthy (physically at least) man emerged from the deformed vehicle. It's a common misconception that a disabled person has to show physical signs to be disabled (and be too poor to own a relatively expensive car). He may or may not have been disabled but it is a shame the mob made their usual presumptions. Making fun of someone's crass inability to drive is, in my book, fair game. On my way home on Friday, I was overtaken by an RX8 with the driver hooting and gesticulating. 100 yards later, it joined a long traffic jam for the lights. I rode past the jam, and the lights were Green when I arrived at the junction. Some phases of the lights, and about a mile and a half later, the same car overtook again, the driver still hooting and gesticulating. Is a year old RX8 worth more than my 11 year old Dawes Sterling? |
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