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Post by ukcstokie on Dec 8, 2014 17:29:03 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-30376446A disabled bloke gets on a bus. The wheelchair space is taken by a pushchair with a baby. Mother refuses to move pushchair because it may wake the baby (it's on a bus FFS). The bloke is awarded £5.5k damages. The case has gone through several courts. It will have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds - if not millions - of public money by the time the dust settles. All because we can't make a little effort to help our fellow human being.
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Post by redstriper on Dec 8, 2014 17:39:36 GMT
who is paying the damages ?
if it isn't her then it's a joke...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 18:12:22 GMT
It's not black and white this to be fair. If for example the parent has got 3 bags of shopping and a new born baby asleep in a pushchair (they may even have a toddler with them as well) then it's not that easy to collapse the pushchair, especially when arguably there is then a safety issue.
I agree that probably 8/10 the parent should be able to collapse the pushchair and common sense can prevail, but not on every occasion. Does someone in a wheelchair have more right to get from A to B quicker than a mother with a couple of kids for example? The Equality Act is designed to do just that - give equality - someone who has already paid their money can't be expected to get off and queue again can they?
People are quick to cast aspersions at times (as some of the comments under the article do) but as I said it's not always black and white....
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