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12 Jan 07, 10:56 AM - Disability speed discrimination?
Now I'm a worldly-wise Crippled Monkey, and I know that there's a lot of disability discrimination that goes on out there and that, moreover, this is not just discrimination but a human rights issue too. Accepted, yes.
So call me controversial (oh, go on, please call me controversial! I LOVE being controversial!), but what I am having difficulty accepting is that the right to travel at 46mph on Lake Windermere in the Lake District is a fundamental human right for a .
But that's what 74-year-old Gerald Price reckons. He says that a 10mph speed limit on the lake breaches human rights legislation. He previously set a blind water-skiing world record on Windermere in October 2004, when he reached a speed of 46.2mph. While I do, of course, salute such an achievement, I'd like to point out to Gerald that if he keeps to the lower speed limit he'd be able to, er, feel the water gently splashing against him and smell the wonderful scents of nature around him. Or something. Plus, he wouldn't scare to death the rest of the people on the lake - like Crippled Monkey, for instance - who are enjoying far more leisurely pursuits; I like nothing better than going for a leisurely jaunt on a pedalo, and I can't expect my personal assistant to power it at much more than ten miles an hour anyway, or else they get all puffed out. Enough said.
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At 02:29 PM on 12 Jan 2007, orpheus wrote:
I think disabled people should be allowed to travel as fast as we like - faster than other people, in fact. I demand the right to speed along the hard shoulder of the M5 in my wheelchair, and it's discriminating not to let me do so! Grrr!
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At 08:59 AM on 13 Jan 2007, wrote:
Abiding by speed limits-whether on land or water- is NOT a Human Rights issue/ Disability Discrimination. It's about safety for everyone and the guy is just being irresponsible as well as giving disabled athletes a bad name too!If he wants to break speed records then he should be training at that place in the Midlands where the water sports people train and not scaring the **** out of other water users. It's about time he grew up!!
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At 07:11 AM on 24 Jan 2007, wrote:
What a load of rubbish!
Breaking a law-of-the-land is not a human rights issue for one minute whether you are blind, one-legged or whatever.
This crazy act is quoted far too often for my liking and it is about time consideration was given to taking it off the statute books!
ps - this should only happen after Mrs Anthony_Cherie Blair-Booth has recieved a few more cut-price clothes.
Agghhhhh, now I have moved onto another one of my pet hates - greedy and self-rightious Prime Misinsters' wives - Cherrie B to be precise. What on earth gives her the right to grab so many freebies? Does she have noe shame (I know the answer to that already) or ish she so thick skinned that she doesn't care what people think (I know the answer to that too). It's been accepted for years that PM's and their spouses have to declare goodies over a certain value - it stops corruption - but she obviously feels above the law!
Have you guesed which party I won't be voting for yet??
To bakance thing out politically, the opposition aren't much cop either.
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