CNN: Paraplegic Handicap Parking Taken from Paralyzed Hollywood Female Actor
Imagine you’re PARAPLEGIC, this space is made for your ride. Do you see these spaces that were made for “disabled persons” now unmarked? Your custom automobile made to give your freedom. Retrofitted with the automatic ramp that safely supports you, you in your electric wheelchair, smiling, you glide up to your only source of freedom: The Vehicle made for you. The electric wheelchair made for YOUR hand, your delicate fingers that cannot lift big things, can guide the power of a 300 lb wheelchair, rolling you up to the inside of your own motor vehicle, where freedom lives… so you get to to drive like everybody else. And you go… trips to the store, to work, to the beach, the motor vehicle that gives keys to the music of living, of going, the sensation of motion… which frees you from a confined life. Then one day the Universal Symbol for Disabled Persons disappears fresh paint covers the once shining symbol of freedom meant for you in this case, it has become painted bright white, leaving only the blue side stripes, which were put there in the first place as a condition of getting approval to build the building. Shall the building be condemned since it is in breech of code? You were yelled at, and told to park where there is no additional side space for your electric ramp, no space for the van, no place for you! Just this year, that’s 000 spent on a little one bedroom apartment, an agreement made on the condition that the space would be years for the entire time you …
