Posted on 07/23/2010 9:41:40 AM PDT by Pessimist
CLEARWATER — Clearwater Beach's lifeguards are in great shape. Most were competitive swimmers in college. They routinely swim, run and lift weights to maintain their edge.
But government regulations are requiring that their headquarters on the beach be made handicapped-accessible, even though the only people who ever use the two-story building are the lifeguards.
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The lifeguards should beat the “codes inspectors” (enforcers) to death with their floats and claim that they were saving the human race from cases of terminal stupidity entering/continuing-within the gene-pool.
The city should say no and be prepared to close the beach.
I guess it won’t get jammed because it won’t get used.
On the other hand, they’ll probably have to get it inspected every year anyway. :)
So it will get used once a year then.
I’ve seen braille signs outside pilot’s lounges in several airports. Right outside our office, halfway down the corridor there is a braille sign on the wall. Have no idea what it says, or how a blind person could know it is there for it to be of any value.
Lol! The scope of this stupidity is simply astounding.
We have handicapped parking places outside the hangar at my reserve fighter squadron, for all the handicapped fighter pilots.
Yeah, I see those braille signs on drive up ATMs too. :)
What is the handicapped answer to the fire pole in the fire house? Can you imagine TIMMAY as a fire man?
As an Architect working on prison designs, I regularly have to provide ADA accessible spaces for all the blind and wheelchair bound prison guards. No exceptions.
Tennessee had to remove many roadside rest areas along 41 and 411 South to Atl. because they were not ADA compliant.
So cripples should be in the life guard chairs too?
Should we also allow toddlers and infants to climb or crawl up the stand?
This is getting ridiculous!
Who thought this one up?
How owuld a BLIND person know WHERE it is?
Does esp kick in?
Would a blind person normally scan the walls with their hands to find these things?
Tell me, who is in charge of this stuff?
Demoncrats?
Are the Demoncrats the ones that pushed this through?
DO you need more proof that LIBERALS are NOT logical and do NOT THINK?
BTW, how much will this COST TAX PAYERS?
I have to admit, Demoncrats think of more idioitc and wasteful way to SPEND the MONEY of OTHERS.
Will a UNION get the contract to BUILD these things?
I think they said the cost of the chair lift would be ~$18k.
And I think you know the answers to the rest of your questions. :)
I would not be surprised if it is cheaper to waste money on stuff like this than to fund the beaurocracy needed to decide on a case by case basis what is required.
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“”It’s odd. Obviously no one here is handicapped. No one in a wheelchair has ever asked to come up here,” head lifeguard Donovan Burns said during an interview on the building’s second floor. He noted that disabled people can borrow fat-tired beach wheelchairs from the lifeguard station for free, but those are stored on the ground floor.”
Nope, can’t have that!
“The little yellow building near Pier 60 has to be brought into compliance with the state building code and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.”
Proof government peopple have NO COMMON SENSE!
“This was triggered when Clearwater recently decided to spend $455,700 of revenue from beach parking meters to renovate and expand the lifeguard building. Among other things, the city will be adding a third floor so the lifeguards can see the entire beach better.”
Ah, so they see MONEY and need to SPEND it quickly!
“Clearwater officials are a bit baffled by the order to make the upper floors handicapped-accessible. They expected to get a waiver so they could skip that requirement, but the state turned them down.”
So does that mean I can go up there too even though I am not disabled?
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