Huh?
1 posted on
10/10/2006 12:59:51 PM PDT by
SmithL
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Yeah, it's the 9th Circus.
2 posted on
10/10/2006 1:00:16 PM PDT by
SmithL
(Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
To: SmithL
Hi. You're deaf, I'm a lawyer, and I'm gonna use you to make me rich.
To: SmithL
When common sense is not politically correct you know you have a jacked up system.
4 posted on
10/10/2006 1:01:53 PM PDT by
L98Fiero
(Evil is an exact science)
To: SmithL
Yeah, and I bet they discriminated against the blind drivers, too!
(/sarc for those so stupid you might think this was serious)
5 posted on
10/10/2006 1:02:19 PM PDT by
TommyDale
(Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
To: SmithL
I suppose they discriminate against blind drivers too.
6 posted on
10/10/2006 1:02:43 PM PDT by
T'wit
(It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
To: SmithL
Are they out of their minds? Driving deaf is a serious safety issue. I am sure their insurer would not allow it. So what will be next? Will the 9th Circuit rule that UPS should be forced to hire blind drivers as well?
7 posted on
10/10/2006 1:02:56 PM PDT by
Hoodat
( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
To: SmithL
"While UPS offered anecdotal testimony involving situations where a driver avoided an accident because he or she heard a warning sound, the company ... failed to show that those accidents would not also have been avoided by a deaf driver who was compensated for his or her loss of hearing by, for example, adapting modified driving techniques or using compensatory devices such as backing cameras or additional mirrors,"
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Yeah dang it. UPS should spend millions more dollars on equipment, cover casuality/auto insurance costs for hearing impared drivers that WILL raise rates all the while to add some deaf drivers.
UPS should not be able to decide WHO they hire. In fact NO company should decide that. The government knows best how to manage a company, hire productive employees and all companies should listen.
This just in, blind drivers sue for right to enter NASCAR races.
10 posted on
10/10/2006 1:04:43 PM PDT by
MadeInAmerica
(- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
To: SmithL
So, who's paying the liability insurance policy premiums? Will they dramatically increase now? If so, who pays for that?
Is UPS held indemnified and held harmless if the deaf driver kills or injures someone?
I think I know the answers....
12 posted on
10/10/2006 1:07:19 PM PDT by
azhenfud
(an enigma between two parentheses)
To: SmithL
"While UPS offered anecdotal testimony involving situations where a driver avoided an accident because he or she heard a warning sound, the company ... failed to show that those accidents would not also have been avoided by a deaf driver who was compensated for his or her loss of hearing by, for example, adapting modified driving techniques or using compensatory devices such as backing cameras or additional mirrors," Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for a three-judge panel of the appeals court. Then why does the DOT require that people holding commercial driver’s licenses need to “hear a forced whisper” at however-many (20?) feet?
They sure used to the last five or so DOT physicals I took.
Maybe they should take a shot at the DOT for denying them the ability to hold a CDL.
15 posted on
10/10/2006 1:08:09 PM PDT by
Who dat?
To: SmithL
To: SmithL
What?
(Incidentally, they should also be offended because they're going to get a "hearing".)
18 posted on
10/10/2006 1:10:57 PM PDT by
Doohickey
(I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
To: SmithL
Yes! And the nerve of UPS. They also discriminate against BLIND drivers. How dare they.
21 posted on
10/10/2006 1:11:15 PM PDT by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: SmithL
Horn? I didn't hear no horn...........
25 posted on
10/10/2006 1:15:18 PM PDT by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
To: SmithL
Didn't you hear those police sirens?
Didn't you hear those fire engine sirens.
Didn't you hear her screaming not to backup.
Didn't you hear them blowing the horn? etc.
27 posted on
10/10/2006 1:16:52 PM PDT by
Capt. Tom
(Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
To: SmithL
Next up, man with no arms sues the US Olympic committee for not letting him compete in the clean and jerk weightlifting event.
To: SmithL
ADA - Full Lawyer Employment Act.
Worst law EVER.
31 posted on
10/10/2006 1:21:00 PM PDT by
SJSAMPLE
To: SmithL
The blind stand in line at UPS' personnel office door today.
33 posted on
10/10/2006 1:23:09 PM PDT by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: LasVegasMac
39 posted on
10/10/2006 1:29:22 PM PDT by
tubebender
(Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
To: SmithL
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court AGNSTA...
41 posted on
10/10/2006 1:31:32 PM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(Well, my days of not taking your seriously are certainly coming to a middle)
To: SmithL
"Each deaf person has to be assessed individually to make a determination, just like a hearing person, as to whether they can safely drive a UPS truck," he added. "That's all we ever asked." I completely agree. They are deaf, not blind -- two totally different disabilities. A deaf person can operate a vehicle just fine and probably more observant of their surroundings than the hearing.
43 posted on
10/10/2006 1:33:46 PM PDT by
flutters
(God Bless The USA)
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