Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin loses crown after standing

[Scott]

Damn thats just wrong. Take her title becuse she puts on a strong front in public.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...e_x.htm?csp=34

[stickman]

I guess (according to the article) she wasn't handicapped enough to deserve to carry the title. So what if she doesn't spend 16 out of 24 hours in a wheelchair??? I see people every day with handicap parking decals who are perfectly able to walk from their cars to the stores without any form of assistance!

[AliMc1977]

	Quote:	stickman
	I guess (according to the article) she wasn't handicapped enough to deserve to carry the title. So what if she doesn't spend 16 out of 24 hours in a wheelchair??? I see people every day with handicap parking decals who are perfectly able to walk from their cars to the stores without any form of assistance!

Half of those people are using someone else's decals. I do know of a few people who have the sticker who can walk and shop w/o any assistance. They told me with Amelia I could get one when she was born. I thought that was a waste of parking spaces b/c I had to carry her anyway.

[stickman]

	Quote:	AliMc1977
	They told me with Amelia I could get one when she was born. I thought that was a waste of parking spaces b/c I had to carry her anyway.

You are one of a rare few who choose not to take advantage of it!

[0ldman]

	Quote:
	Candidates for the crown have to "mostly be seen in the public using their wheelchairs or scooters," said Judy Hoit, Ms. Wheelchair America's treasurer. "Otherwise you've got women who are in their wheelchairs all the time and they get offended if they see someone standing up. We can't have title holders out there walking when they're seen in the public."

So, the title holders have to be content in their disability and not strive to grow stronger or more independant because that offends people in wheelchairs.

Oh yea, that makes lots of sense.

[Bocephus]

	Quote:	stickman
	I guess (according to the article) she wasn't handicapped enough to deserve to carry the title. So what if she doesn't spend 16 out of 24 hours in a wheelchair??? I see people every day with handicap parking decals who are perfectly able to walk from their cars to the stores without any form of assistance!

they also give out handicapped decals for mental problems.

[bohemur]

I hate to see someone parked in a handicap space. You may remember me saying that I use to take my Uncle Joe shopping. He was a quadraplegic, which means he was paralized from the neck down. There was no way he could walk and alot of times we would have to park at the end of the parking lot or very near the end just so that I could get him out of the van. Most of the spaces were taken by people that would pull up and RUN into the store. I would get so mad. Even if we did get a handicapped space most of the time I couldn't get the lift down because someone had parked half way in the space that was marked for handicap vans. If any of you have ever had to do this you will understand my frustration. I was at the grocery store one day and saw a car parked in a handicap spot that didn't have a decal so I called the cops. By the way, they never showed up, I stayed there to see. When the woman came out to get in her car she was a nurse. I was so irate I could hardly see straight. I mean this woman works with handicapped people all the time and she has the audacity to take one of their parking spaces. Needless to say I had to double dose my blood pressure meds for that one. Another time I was at Wal-Mart and watched a cop ticket someone for being in the cops only space but in the handicap spot close by was a car with no decal and the cop just drove off when he got through writing the ticket for being parked in the cops space. This is one of the reasons that handicapped people get no respect. If the cops can't help them keep something as simple as a parking space who is going to help them keep respect!!!!