Amen!!
At 10:16 PM 5/14/2004, Steve Hoad wrote:
>Vicug,
>
>Each state has different language in their "handicapped parking" laws.
>
>It appears as though the British and New Zealanders even call spaces
>"stalls".
>
>In no language is blindness a mobility impairment. It might be a visual
>impairment but unless you have blind eyes in your vack, legs, and feet
>blindness just ain't mobility impairment!
>
>David, you said,
>"
>In montgomery and baltimore counties, no one I know of has ever been
>denied.
>
>I remember a discussion of this several years ago and we were told in no
>uncertain terms that we were covered by it. I don't know why mary had
>to
>have a special law passed except that perhaps those administering the
>regulations didn't know them well enough."
>I say, they knew their regs just fine, Georgia isn't in the counties you're
>talking about!
>
>Mixing apples, oranges and metaphors makes quite the punch, huh?
>
>Let's leave the handicapped parking spaces for the mobility impaired!
>
>Let's learn to deal with our mobility difficulties with the aids we have
>like canes, dogs, sighted guides, etc. As blind persons we would do
>ourselves a service this way, and get some good excercise, too!
>
>
>posting from Windsor Maine;
>Steve Hoad
>
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