Disabled Parks

[Robin Hood]

Its about time they started to do something about the problem. Im sick of disabled people getting priority parks. Why do there parks have to be close to everything? If anything they should get parks further away because they dont have to walk and we do. Im sick of them constantly getting benefits we dont get. Its discrimination against normal people for being normal.

 

[Robin Hood]

Im not trying to be harsh it really frustrates me.

 

[dr nick]

ehm. not only wheelchair bound people get those parks. You've got a healthy pair of legs. Is it that hard for you?

 

[Robin Hood]

ehm. not only wheelchair bound people get those parks. You've got a healthy pair of legs. Is it that hard for you?

If they have healthy legs why do they need a priority park?

 

[Benevolent Ert]

Life's never fair I'm afraid - unfortunately it seems you have to put up with parking further away, and the rest of us have to put up with reading the ******** you post

 

[Robin Hood]

Life's never fair I'm afraid - unfortunately it seems you have to put up with parking further away, and the rest of us have to put up with reading the ******** you post

No one is making you read this....Someone is discriminating against me by making me park ages away.

 

[mantis]

Life's never fair I'm afraid - unfortunately it seems you have to put up with parking further away, and the rest of us have to put up with reading the ******** you post

How true.

 

[Robin Hood]

All Im after is equality, there is no reason why they should have priorty parking. Why not special parks for Aboriginals because they are disadvantaged.

 

[mantis]

No one is making you read this....Someone is discriminating against me by making me park ages away.

I would have thought you could take advantage of the disabled bays, or is it only for the physically disabled.

 

[Rave Slave]

Yeah they have it so easy

First we give them priority parking then we give them sets of stairs, cracked pavers, lifts with gaps just big enough to jam wheelchairs and checkouts and aisles barely big enough to fit down. They have it so easy and I mean its not like they have lost 50% of their body's mobility or anything.

What do they want from us next - that we call them 'people'

If you had to ride in a wheelchair for one day without being able to get out or use your legs you would actually see how hard it is for these people mate. They don't have it easy at all.

 

[Robin Hood]

I would have thought you could take advantage of the disabled bays, or is it only for the physically disabled.

Most of the time they are unused or used by people who arent disabled. I dont see why have them!

 

[Robin Hood]

Yeah they have it so easy

First we give them priority parking then we give them sets of stairs, cracked pavers, lifts with gaps just big enough to jam wheelchairs and checkouts and aisles barely big enough to fit down. They have it so easy and I mean its not like they have lost 50% of their body's mobility or anything.

What do they want from us next - that we call them 'people'

If you had to ride in a wheelchair for one day without being able to get out or use your legs you would actually see how hard it is for these people mate. They don't have it easy at all.

It didnt say they had it easy. I said disabled parks are stupid and I didnt make any comments regarding anything else you said. Your post is a tad harsh.

 

[Rave Slave]

It didnt say they had it easy. I said disabled parks are stupid and I didnt make any comments regarding anything else you said. Your post is a tad harsh.

Give them a concession somewhere along the line - they cop it rough enough as it is

 

[mantis]

Most of the time they are unused or used by people who arent disabled. I dont see why have them!

You should use them, surely being mentally disabled you are allowed to.

 

[Robin Hood]

You should use them, surely being mentally disabled you are allowed to.

You like repeating a similar line twice in a row dont u?

 

[Benevolent Ert]

tell ya what - next time you see an arthritic little old lady on a walking frame struggling out of her car in one of these "priviliged" spaces, why not go up and ask her why she's got it so good?

 

[Robin Hood]

Give them a concession somewhere along the line - they cop it rough enough as it is

Yeh but my point is why have them? Why not a park for aboriginals because they are the subject of racism?

 

[Robin Hood]

tell ya what - next time you see an arthritic little old lady on a walking frame struggling out of her car in one of these "priviliged" spaces, why not go up and ask her why she's got it so good?

She wouldnt be entitled to use the parks. She doesnt meet the critrea.

 

[mantis]

You like repeating a similar line twice in a row dont u?

Only because you didn't address it the first time, but I know why, you are just on a fishing expedition & I'm not taking the bait, but casting my own.

 

[Benevolent Ert]

and what pray tell are these criteria?

how do you know she doesn't meet them?

 

[BomberGal]

Trying to take you light-heartedly, but one of my best friends is disabled. No, she's not in a wheelchair, but for some time she did require a close park after she had an operation but was no longer in the wheelchair.

 

[Robin Hood]

and what pray tell are these criteria?

how do you know she doesn't meet them?

You have to be disabled and get an appropriate DISABILITY pension from the government. A walking frame or old age doesnt qualify you. If you got caught you would get fined.

 

[Benevolent Ert]

Trying to take you light-heartedly

Six months ago I probably would've ignored a thread like this myself, but I've turned into a bitter old crank in my old age.

But recently I've acquired a taste for shooting my mouth off - and I LIKE IT!

 

[Benevolent Ert]

You have to be disabled and get an appropriate DISABILITY pension from the government. A walking frame or old age doesnt qualify you. If you got caught you would get fined.

But what of those disabled by heart problems, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, or a host of other invisible conditions?

Society's awareness of visible disability has taken leaps and bounds following the anti-discrimination legislation enacted several years ago, and also with the recent paralympic games. There is no excuse now for thinking that people in wheelchairs are stupid or contagious, or that they don't deserve to have a good job.

Unfortunately, the average person's views about invisible disabilities and chronic illnesses are not yet so enlightened. Sufferers are met with skepticism, rudeness, hostility and with being told they're outright lying.

Why is society's attitude and accommodations lagging behind for those whose problems are less visible?

(http://www.tertius.net.au/id/invisible_visible.html for the full article)

 

[mantis]

You have to be disabled and get an appropriate DISABILITY pension from the government. A walking frame or old age doesnt qualify you. If you got caught you would get fined.

OH dear now you have stuffed up, people with all the above do qualify, it isn't just people in wheelchairs, but I suspect you know that, just trying to keep the flame ignited.

People stop getting sucked in, he is just trolling, just agree with him & he will go away.