Disabled Not Allowed in Disability Court

This may be the weirdest story of British bureaucracy gone wild yet. Occasionally, disabled people must go to court to prove their disabilities or face losing benefits. However, someone decided to put the disability tribunal on the fourth floor of the Acorn House building in Basildon, England. Therefore, health and safety officials barred people in wheelchairs from attending because exit would be difficult in the event of a fire.

Sylvia Middleton, from Wickford Place in Pitsea, was turned away last Wednesday.

She said: “They said they couldn’t guarantee my safety and they didn’t let wheelchairs upstairs.

“Why are they holding disability tribunals in a building disabled people aren’t allowed in?”

The 65-year-old has been told she has to wait two months for a new hearing 12 miles away at Southend.

Officials had originally ordered she attend the court or risk losing her disability benefits.

Court officials claim the ruling is in error and are trying to work out a policy in which no one will be turned away. Link -via Arbroath

(Image credit: Mark Cleveland)  


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The video is should't say the map is a lie or wrong, that's not true, it should explain how a projection works, so people can really know what are they looking at instead of go around saying maps are not accurate... Mercator projection was originally made for sailing so it preserves angles, you can and should trust it if you know how to read it... if you want the map for something else i.e. comparing sizes, you should simple use other projection...

Schools should really take a look into this matter, at least show graphically how a projection is done, it's no so hard and it should avoid things like that video that will make a lot of people go trough life saying maps are not useful...
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