I live in a fairly large city and there are still parts of town that don't have a grocery store within easy walking/bus distance. Getting banned from one in the poorer parts of town would be a major inconvenience for someone like the blind nutjob.
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Quoth EvilEmpryss View PostGetting banned from one in the poorer parts of town would be a major inconvenience for someone like the blind nutjob.
The guy put the knife away and walked out.Sometimes life is altered.
Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
Uneasy with confrontation.
Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right
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Quoth EvilEmpryss View PostI live in a fairly large city and there are still parts of town that don't have a grocery store within easy walking/bus distance. Getting banned from one in the poorer parts of town would be a major inconvenience for someone like the blind nutjob.
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I am well familiar with the rights of the disabled - my wife being a polio survivor. There are some "reasonable accommodations" that society does ask the rest of us to accept - such as ramps instead of curbs at crosswalks and beeping "walk/don't walk" signs.
However.
Submitting to physical assault is NOT one of them. Whatever her disability does not give her the right to treat the non-disabled as less-than-human. You have the right to ban her. And she would only have a discrimination case if she can prove you ban all people with her disability - very hard for her to prove.
Go ahead and file charges. Use the store's video as evidence. And don't fear reprisal - once a judge sees the video, (s)he will dismiss the discrimination case.I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. --#6
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Quoth Monterey Jack View PostBoo. Hoo. If it came to that, there are plenty of services that will delivery groceries right to a blind person's door. If it comes down to inconveniencing an asshole, or looking out for the welfare of your employees, then I have ZERO sympathy for a belligerent, assaultive customer getting banned. Don't let the door hit you on the way out...!Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull
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Quoth Pixilated View PostHer disability is irrelevant -- or should be.
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I think she might have some sort of mental disability as well, although I can't prove it. Previously, she had either the other guy (who did a very good job at reining her in) or a carer with her. No idea why she decided to go solo that time."I am quite confident that I do exist."
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor
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Quoth Ophbalance View PostThe problem with picking this person up as a hitchhiker is, the moment he got in the car, he would turn to you and say "If you get into an accident I'll sue you and win".
If I'm doing someone a favor, and the first words out of their mouth are the equivalent of "I'm a dickhead just looking for you to fuck up," then I no longer see any point in doing that person a favor.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth Jester View PostAnd that is when I'd turn to him and say, "Then this is where you get out of my car."
If I'm doing someone a favor, and the first words out of their mouth are the equivalent of "I'm a dickhead just looking for you to fuck up," then I no longer see any point in doing that person a favor.
I've had friends of mine joke about throwing up or otherwise making a mess in my car-- usually just after I've cleaned it up so I can give them a ride-- and I'll tell them, "You wanna walk home?"
Which once resulted in this exchange:
Tom: "I was this.close to crapping in your car."
J2K: "And you were this.close to walking home."
Tom: "But we're in Delaware!"
J2K: "Exactly."PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!
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The problem is, how do you extricate a man/beast/thing from your vehicle knowing that any attempt to physically remove him (and you just know he won't leave voluntarily) will end in a very messy lawsuit? Most of my wife's friends encountered this bloke before the rise of the cellphone, so it would have been difficult to summon police. And he's the kind of being that would have just enough malice and spite to stick around in the car for just as long as you care to sit and wait for him to depart.But the paint on me is beginning to dry
And it's not what I wanted to be
The weight on me
Is Hanging on to a weary angel - Sister Hazel
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Quoth Ophbalance View PostThe problem is, how do you extricate a man/beast/thing from your vehicle knowing that any attempt to physically remove him (and you just know he won't leave voluntarily) will end in a very messy lawsuit? Most of my wife's friends encountered this bloke before the rise of the cellphone, so it would have been difficult to summon police. And he's the kind of being that would have just enough malice and spite to stick around in the car for just as long as you care to sit and wait for him to depart.
I have many rules for my truck. But all of them come down to "I own the truck, you do not." Luckily, to date the only people I've had trouble extricating from my car or truck were drunk friends who weren't all that conscious.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth Ophbalance View PostThe problem is, how do you extricate a man/beast/thing from your vehicle knowing that any attempt to physically remove him (and you just know he won't leave voluntarily) will end in a very messy lawsuit? Most of my wife's friends encountered this bloke before the rise of the cellphone, so it would have been difficult to summon police. And he's the kind of being that would have just enough malice and spite to stick around in the car for just as long as you care to sit and wait for him to depart.
If he refuses to leave the car, then the car travels - SLOWLY! - in a direction directly opposite of where he wants to go. The further, the better. And of course, it's not kidnapping or unlawful detainment if you tell him "You just let me know when you want to get out, okay?" The more stubborn he is, the harder it's going to be for him to get back home, much less to his 'intended' destination. And, of course, you can always look for a police station along the way. Or a public phone.
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