State Says Lifeguard Stations Must be Handicapped-Accessible

Even though nobody but lifeguards use Clearwater Beach's lifeguard headquarters, Florida officials have decided that it must be handicapped-accessible. "It's odd. Obviously no one here is handicapped. No one in a wheelchair has ever asked to come up here," head lifeguard Donovan Burns said. From the article: "Clearwater officials are a bit baffled by the order to make the upper floors handicapped-accessible. They expected to get a waiver so they could skip that requirement, but the state turned them down."

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It gets better

[bill_mcgonigle]

In New Hampshire White Mountains, the Application Mountain Club was renovating a cabin, two miles up a mountain from the trail-head. The State made them put a handicapped ramp on the front of it. And the materials are all carried in by humans.

To celebrate this achievement of the ADA some wheelchair-bound person had himself carried up to the cabin so he could roll up and down it. This is why people hate the ADA and why it hurts handicapped people. Penn & Teller's Bullshit! episode has a good treatment of the subject.

Sigh...

[Locke2005]

Next they'll be complaining that the stages in strip clubs should be handicapped accessible... Oh, wait.