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I read on imdb awhile ago about how Leonardo DiCarprio helped out two wheelchair users at a concert. Hangon I'll find the article.
Unfortunately I see wheelchair users treated like this a lot and it bugs me to see them treated like that. In town they can hardly move around because you get idiots standing and chatting right in the middle of the pavement. They don't care they just carry on chatting until you shout at them to move out of the way.
Just a few weeks ago at our towns battle re-enactment I saw this one boy in a wheelchair, he went to get a good position early for it, only to have parents send their kids to stand infront of him. He could hardly see a thing.
The worse treatment I've seen was a bunch of stupid kids hurling insults and throwing apples at this one old man in a wheel chair. I couldnt believe some people were just turning away and not getting involved. Luckily this one shop owner chased them off before I got my hands on them.
[I]DiCaprio Saves Concert Goers.... Leonardo DiCaprio came to the rescue of two wheelchair-bound fans caught in a crowd surge at a Madonna concert in New York City last week.
Quadriplegic Francesco Clark, 28, had a front row seat at the Madison Square Garden gig, when fans lunging towards the pop superstar nearly knocked him out of his seat.
Clark's friend Elisa Lipsky-Karasz tells PageSix.com, "He couldn't see anything because people were all standing around him. He tried to move to the front, but no one would budge, and nobody cared.
"Then the security guard came over and was being rude and told him to move.
At that point, DiCaprio came over and said, 'Why don't you come sit with me and I'll just move over?'" Soon afterwards, the Titanic star moved another wheelchair user to a less raucous area next to his seat at the end of the stage's catwalk.[/I]Unfortunately I see wheelchair users treated like this a lot and it bugs me to see them treated like that. In town they can hardly move around because you get idiots standing and chatting right in the middle of the pavement. They don't care they just carry on chatting until you shout at them to move out of the way.
Just a few weeks ago at our towns battle re-enactment I saw this one boy in a wheelchair, he went to get a good position early for it, only to have parents send their kids to stand infront of him. He could hardly see a thing.
The worse treatment I've seen was a bunch of stupid kids hurling insults and throwing apples at this one old man in a wheel chair. I couldnt believe some people were just turning away and not getting involved. Luckily this one shop owner chased them off before I got my hands on them.
AliBoy wrote:
> Would like to see more fines for those who park in them and
> don't have the right too.
I think the only way people will stop parking in them will be if points are put on their licences as well. The thing that really bugs me is celebrities in the papers blatently parking in disables spaces, double yellow lines etc knowing they're going to get caught but the fine is like 1 minutes wages for them so they don't care (or have respect for other people really).
As far as wheelchair users go I always help them if they can by holding doors open etc but there have been a few times when they've not been appreciative or rude probably because they feel they've partly lost their independance and don't want help.
Thing is I automatically hold doors open for people disabled or not and it used to make me think why bother but everyones different and I still do it to this day.
It does bug me the lack of respect some people have for not just disabled people but people in general although I think it has been hyped up a bit and isn't as bad as some people make out as all that gets reported in the news is the bad stuff like anti social behaviour and not the good that people do for each other.
> Would like to see more fines for those who park in them and
> don't have the right too.
I think the only way people will stop parking in them will be if points are put on their licences as well. The thing that really bugs me is celebrities in the papers blatently parking in disables spaces, double yellow lines etc knowing they're going to get caught but the fine is like 1 minutes wages for them so they don't care (or have respect for other people really).
As far as wheelchair users go I always help them if they can by holding doors open etc but there have been a few times when they've not been appreciative or rude probably because they feel they've partly lost their independance and don't want help.
Thing is I automatically hold doors open for people disabled or not and it used to make me think why bother but everyones different and I still do it to this day.
It does bug me the lack of respect some people have for not just disabled people but people in general although I think it has been hyped up a bit and isn't as bad as some people make out as all that gets reported in the news is the bad stuff like anti social behaviour and not the good that people do for each other.
People parking in disabled bays who don't need them is one of my pet hates.
I used to take my gran to the doctors/hospital etc when se was quite frail and couldn't walk long distances. She had a disabled badge for parking but half the time the bays were all full of people who didn't need them.
Would like to see more fines for those who park in them and don't have the right too.
I used to take my gran to the doctors/hospital etc when se was quite frail and couldn't walk long distances. She had a disabled badge for parking but half the time the bays were all full of people who didn't need them.
Would like to see more fines for those who park in them and don't have the right too.
Was just leaving Morrisons and saw some perfectly abled bodied guy park in a disabled parking space :/ Probably just couldnt be bothered to drive around and find somewhere else.
It all boils down to the lack of respect that people have for each other these days, not just disabled people, but anyone.
It seems that anything goes these days.
Why this is the case is a long discussion in itself, but my own (not very popular) view is that society has had more emphasis on women going back to work after having kids since the late 60's, this has led to the kids being brought up with less dicipline and less of a mother figure in their lives (nannys and nursery schools are no substitute) and the situation has declined as the mothers today come from that generation and some of them don't even have that respect instilled in them from their own childhood, so make the situation even worse when they then leave their own kids in someone else's hands.
The schools are doing what they can to educate children in seeing other people's point of view and having some respect, but its a worthless cause when the parents don't do it, as the kids then have no respect for the teachers anyway...
It seems that anything goes these days.
Why this is the case is a long discussion in itself, but my own (not very popular) view is that society has had more emphasis on women going back to work after having kids since the late 60's, this has led to the kids being brought up with less dicipline and less of a mother figure in their lives (nannys and nursery schools are no substitute) and the situation has declined as the mothers today come from that generation and some of them don't even have that respect instilled in them from their own childhood, so make the situation even worse when they then leave their own kids in someone else's hands.
The schools are doing what they can to educate children in seeing other people's point of view and having some respect, but its a worthless cause when the parents don't do it, as the kids then have no respect for the teachers anyway...
I read on imdb awhile ago about how Leonardo DiCarprio helped out two wheelchair users at a concert. Hangon I'll find the article.
Unfortunately I see wheelchair users treated like this a lot and it bugs me to see them treated like that. In town they can hardly move around because you get idiots standing and chatting right in the middle of the pavement. They don't care they just carry on chatting until you shout at them to move out of the way.
Just a few weeks ago at our towns battle re-enactment I saw this one boy in a wheelchair, he went to get a good position early for it, only to have parents send their kids to stand infront of him. He could hardly see a thing.
The worse treatment I've seen was a bunch of stupid kids hurling insults and throwing apples at this one old man in a wheel chair. I couldnt believe some people were just turning away and not getting involved. Luckily this one shop owner chased them off before I got my hands on them.
[I]DiCaprio Saves Concert Goers.... Leonardo DiCaprio came to the rescue of two wheelchair-bound fans caught in a crowd surge at a Madonna concert in New York City last week.
Quadriplegic Francesco Clark, 28, had a front row seat at the Madison Square Garden gig, when fans lunging towards the pop superstar nearly knocked him out of his seat.
Clark's friend Elisa Lipsky-Karasz tells PageSix.com, "He couldn't see anything because people were all standing around him. He tried to move to the front, but no one would budge, and nobody cared.
"Then the security guard came over and was being rude and told him to move.
At that point, DiCaprio came over and said, 'Why don't you come sit with me and I'll just move over?'" Soon afterwards, the Titanic star moved another wheelchair user to a less raucous area next to his seat at the end of the stage's catwalk.[/I]Unfortunately I see wheelchair users treated like this a lot and it bugs me to see them treated like that. In town they can hardly move around because you get idiots standing and chatting right in the middle of the pavement. They don't care they just carry on chatting until you shout at them to move out of the way.
Just a few weeks ago at our towns battle re-enactment I saw this one boy in a wheelchair, he went to get a good position early for it, only to have parents send their kids to stand infront of him. He could hardly see a thing.
The worse treatment I've seen was a bunch of stupid kids hurling insults and throwing apples at this one old man in a wheel chair. I couldnt believe some people were just turning away and not getting involved. Luckily this one shop owner chased them off before I got my hands on them.