Redbox sued by blind movie watchers

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You can't make this stuff up...

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=8503403

I miss my blind friend Bob who passed away many years ago. He would have called this stupid and laughed about it.

He also staged a great gag once. As he got on a city bus here in Denver, his buddy the driver, gathered up his gear like he was going off shift and Bob found his way into the bus driver's seat with his cane.

They bantered back and forth like two co-workers handling a shift change. Bob never missed a beat.

The bus cleared out, via the back door.

The two of them had a belly laugh and gathered up the passengers and the bus continued on.

RIP Bob. We still have his voice recorded on one of the local repeaters as the link connection and disconnection announcements. He worked as a radio DJ and announcer his whole life.
 
I can understand where they're coming from but sometimes I wonder if thats like asking apple to have a user friendly touch screen for blind people.
 
REDBOX's days are numbered. I laugh at the commercials advertising the great opportunity for owning your own DVD rental kiosk business.
 
Lot of lawyers graduating every year. They gotta do something.

:D
 
You know there's braille instructions on drive-up ATMs, don't you....

(yes, I'm serious).
 
wsuffa said:
You know there's braille instructions on drive-up ATMs, don't you....

(yes, I'm serious).
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Yeah. I know. And a number of them near here have plug ins for audio headsets too.

I've been tempted to shoot video of someone with a giant pair of DCs on, plugged into the thing, acting like they're rocking out. ;)
 
So now Redbox videos will cost $2 a day.
 
Here's something I wrote up for another forum...

I had an uncle who couldn't use either leg. Everything dead from the waist down. He had a license and he drove everywhere in a modified Jeep with a manual transmission.

This was in the early 60's, long before disabled people were "mainstreamed". He sketched out a modification that mounted a lever onto the steering column and a linkage down to the pedals. The lever rotated up and down to select the brake or clutch and in and out to press and release the selected pedal. He had a local metalworker fabricate it and he learned to drive with it.

My uncle was a coal miner before a cave-in paralyzed him. He had no more than a 5th grade education and he designed a system that served him well. The metalworker probably had no more training than high school shop class. Contrast that to the current situation where a few disabled people go around suing business owners because a restroom mirror is six inches too high.
 
wsuffa said:
You know there's braille instructions on drive-up ATMs, don't you....

(yes, I'm serious).
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Dunno 'bout you, but I've walked up to drive-up ATM's before.

And it's interesting that the reporter who wrote the story didn't know how to spell "Braille.":rolleyes:
 
rpadula said:
Yes, those are for referees and umpires. :rofl:
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Dunno if he actually said it, or if it's urban legend: Fred Arbanas was a tight end for the KC Chiefs back in the '60s. He played, even though he had lost his sight in one eye. During a game, during a break in the play, a ref asked Fred what he'd do if he lost vision in his other eye. Fred didn't hesitate, he said, "I'd become a referee!"

edit - found the story..
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] Tommy Bell, retired after 15 years as a national Football League Referee, tells a story about Fred Arbanas, former all pro end for the Kansas City Chiefs, who had a glass eye. "There was a game where he was hit and the glass eye was knocked out," Bell recalls. "I picked it up and handed it back to him when he was revived. Arbanas just swirled the glass eye around in the water bucket and slapped it right back in his head.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]"I said, 'Golly, Arbanas, you got a lot of guts. What would you do if your other eye were injured?' He didn't even crack a smile as he said, 'Mr. Bell, I'd become a referee, just like you.'"[/FONT]
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Interesting that they talk about how they have friends that can help them by describing the scenes of the movie. Can't those same friends be used to rent the movies in the first place? And when I first saw the title, I was expecting an article in the Onion!
 
wsuffa said:
You know there's braille instructions on drive-up ATMs, don't you....

(yes, I'm serious).
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It's really not as dumb as it sounds if you think it through. The company just make the keys and pads for all ATMs. They don't know whether the machine is going into a drive-through or a walk-up. They just make and sell the machines.
 
ADA results in crazy things. At the professional soccer stadium in my city, the pro team players' private locker room had to have a certain number of ADA compliant lockers, showers stalls, sinks, bathroom stalls, etc.

My favorite was at Tropicana field, the braille lettering on the door plaque for the umpires' locker room :)
 
PilotAlan said:
ADA results in crazy things. At the professional soccer stadium in my city, the pro team players' private locker room had to have a certain number of ADA compliant lockers, showers stalls, sinks, bathroom stalls, etc.

My favorite was at Tropicana field, the braille lettering on the door plaque for the umpires' locker room :)
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:needpics:
 
Ron Levy said:
Dunno 'bout you, but I've walked up to drive-up ATM's before.

And it's interesting that the reporter who wrote the story didn't know how to spell "Braille.":rolleyes:
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But it's illegal to walk up to a drive in McD's
 
denverpilot said:
Yeah. I know. And a number of them near here have plug ins for audio headsets too.
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Of course, the Braille is pointless without some audio because 90% of the information needed is on the screen.

I'm still trying to find a Braille "If you can read this you're too damn close!" bumper sticker for my car.
 
I want to sue them becuase I have ADHD and the machines are to @$@#$%% slow. Think I can find a lawyer:D
 
That kinda reminds me of the association for the blind in Berks County Pa.

Their address is

2020 Hampden Blvd Reading, PA 19604
 
Jaybird180 said:
:rolleyes2:Doh! I meant drive up bank teller.
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I still want to see the actual law. Too many people make up laws in their heads just because it doesn't fit the normal image they're use to. After a while, it's common knowledge that it's a law even when it's not.

braille instructions on drive-up ATMs
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To this day my favorite from years ago was the wheelchair accessible potty (complete with the wheelchair sign on the door) at some national or state park out east way up a rough narrow steep rock strewn hiking trail. You couldn't have got a wheel chair to that location even if you dropped it out of a helicopter...but it was compliant with the rules even though it was impossible to access the area without walking.
 
A buddy of mine moved to a small town and, just for the heck of it, bought the local movie theater. He'd pick up the second-run movies, his wife would handle the books because he didn't trust himself, his kids ran the concessions, and he ran the projector. The place was pretty run down and the bathrooms were dumps. He really wanted to remodel the bathrooms, but then he'd have to bring them up the the latest ADA codes...so he just left them alone.
 
fgcason said:
who wrote that law? the 16 year old hamburger flipper dude manager that puts axle grease and drain-o on the bun?
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Most likely the insurance companies who don't want people standing between cars where they'd one day get their legs crunched by some idiot. Probably wouldn't take but a few hours before that happened.
 
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