On 2/1/2014 8:13 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Zaky Waky:
350+Lbs breathless wobbler, I wonder how they get in and out.

Maybe with difficulty if they're average height - but if they're
350, the extra room (including shoulder room) probably outweighs the
difficulty.

OTOH, maybe the crip-plates they have are just a scam.

I think there's quite a bit of that going around. In Philadelphia
(PA, USA) the city politicians were getting handicapped tags at one
time. Dunno if anybody's remedied that, but it's an obvious move for
somebody with no sense of shame.

Also not everybody with a handicapped tag is obviously crippled.
Some people can walk normally, but experience pain with every step
and the more steps they take, the more it hurts - and beyond a
certain number of steps, they're not going to get much sleep that
night.

And I'm also guessing that there are people with severe pulmonary
and/or cardiovascular limitations that restrict the distance they can
walk.

Bottom line, though, I suspect there are more phony handicapped tags
out there than most people would like.

I remember reading somewhere that handicap placards were one of the
hottest selling items at flea markets in California. ^_^

TDD