nothing asinine about it. you better keep reading. that means you aren't any smarter than the dumbist blind person or retarded person I know. -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of William Stephan Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:53 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] not selling to blind explination
A totally asinine position for anyone to take because the profoundly prejudicial assumption is that all blind people are equally incompetent. I've read a lot of case law dealing with product liability and I pretty much doubt that if a case like the one mentioned here went to trial the plaintiffs would win, though you never can tell about these things it's true. It's -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 17:19 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] not selling to blind explination No one seems to mind selling cars to drunks or who they sell guns to or soda and other junk food to the obese I don't buy it. If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <lmch...@verizon.net> To: "handyman-blind" <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] not selling to blind explination >I do not agree with this however I can now understand the reluctance of > selling some items to blind individuals. I was talking to a friend at the > local hardware store and mentioned that some sales people do not want to > sell power tools to the blind. He told me that it is not necessarily > because > you are blind. A few years ago a salesman in a department store sold > something to an individual who was mentally incompetent. The individual > got > hurt and the family filed a suit against the store and salesman. It was > settled out of court. Because of that some sales people are reluctant to > sell to anyone that they believe could have a problem operating the > machinery. As I said I do not agree with that but it now makes a little > more > sense understanding their attitude. > --- > Please visit my home page; it is motivational, inspirational and humorous > with many resources for the blind. > http://www.lennymchugh.com > Lenny > Please Copy and Paste into New Message to pass along. Use BCC line when > addressing. > Help stop identity theft. > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4978 (20100326) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: blindhandyman-ow...@yahoogroups.com To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: blindhandyman-h...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
