The Julian Hotel
Posted on 07/08/2009 9:00:03 AM PDT by rivercat
The owner of a tiny but famous Sacramento burger joint said a lawsuit about handicapped access could shut him down.
The Squeeze Inn, known for huge mounds of melted cheese on its burgers, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the lawsuit alleges.
Kimberly Block, who says she has severly limited use of her legs, argues she suffered "embarrassment and humiliation" and that her civil rights were violated because of inadequate access inside the Fruitridge Road restaurant.
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” I have found that businesses will usually do whatever it takes to make sure her experience is as good as anyone’s. I think these kind of legal actions are just grabs for attention and/or $$$$.”
Exactly, I know a blind guy who goes up in his attic to run cables. he doesn’t let much slow him down. A company doesn’t/can’t make changes to accommodate him then he goes elsewhere.
The other blind guy sued Target because their website didn’t support access by blind people. This sets a precedent that every website should have to be 508 compliant adding tremendous cost. I think its still in appeal.
I think it should depend on the size of the establishment. I can understand things such as malls and stores but not small places.
I seem to recall a number of years ago that a popular deli in San Francisco was forced by the ADA Nazis to rebuild their entrance because the “back door” entry, which WAS wheelchair accessible, was “humiliating”. The deli’s answer to the lawsuit? THEY CLOSED THE RESTAURANT!!!!
Otherwise known as the “Full Lawyer Employment Act”.
Why should a business pay to accommodate anyone in particular? My business - my rules. What about that do you not understand? If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. DO you think someone has a “right” to a Squeeze with Cheese?
Really?
1. It’s the owner’s property.
2. Nobody is forcing the handicapped (including your cousin) to go into these places. Government buildings - which service the citizenry - sure. Private buildings - no.
Some people want to spend everybody else’s money.
Places like this restaurant find it cost prohibitive, but some whiny gimp comes along and they have to go bankrupt accomodating them or through a lawsuit.
Pure bullshit.
This women is looking for FREE MONEY! She should be ASHAMED to show her face any where now. So what! there are a few places she can’t go. Me too, so send someone else in for a burger to bring out or how about GOING SOME PLACE ELSE. She should use the common sense she was born with. There are plenty of places I can’t use even with some what working legs. I don’t fault society with my handicap. I embrace what I can do and where I can go even with my struggles.
“...bar in the bathroom..”
I can get on board with that one!
;-)
Why would you want a bar in the bathroom? Who would drink there?/sarc.
Went to a supermarket the other day, and there had to be 20 damn handicap spots, all completely unoccupied except one, while the rest of the parking lot was jammed..We had to circle the parking lot 3 times just to find a spot to park.
The guy in the one handicap spot, had the placard, and simply exited his vehicle, and walked normally into the store.
This is pure BS.
“In the very least I would say a bar in the bathroom and access”
This is off topic, but Larry the Cable Guy has a great skit where he discusses the “cripple stool”. Even my wife got a laugh out of that one!
understandable.....but I do not believe the act was written to drive small business out of business....I think that it is insane to expect a small town antique shop to put in a 450 thousand dollar elevator because of the one person in town in a wheel chair ( this is an actual case )or go out of business......with all the things that are disabilities these days, it would make more sense to start your business in mexico..
acknowledgements for the use of trademarked words.
Did you think about changing optometrists?
"I see *no reason* why a business should not be *made to* adhere to the American's with Disabilities Act...."
It's the whole mindset that I believe goes against the Constitution and the American way.
I’m with you...all I am saying is that if a small low cost alternative i.e. walk-up window could be made then it would serve to accommodate everyone including the handicapped. I don’t agree that the place should be forced to spend thousands of dollars so that every portion of the building is wheelchair accessible.
The first time I saw a handicapped toilet sign, I thought it meant it was out of order.
Agreed.
It's just another signpost along the Fascist road upon which our country has been descending.
True...I should have chosen my wording more carefully. Believe me nothing burns my ass more than things like mandatory smoking bans in private bars and restaurants...or anything else to that effect.
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