Strange Things and Weirdos III
While the crosswalk zen master isn't at the crosswalk anymore, I did see something today on one of the main roads that just made me shake my head. There was the dude who is missing his legs who gets around by pushing himself around on a skateboard; there's the 50ish woman who wears leggings reaching up to her knees made out of old blue jeans while she's wearing shorts; there's always the homeless people trying to sell you newspapers; and there's countless strange people with ridiculous colored hair. None of these things makes me shake my head. But the handicapped security guard did.
First, let's consider this: Mercantile Bank (or whoever) hires a man in a wheelchair to be a security guard. Honestly, it's probably a pretty decent job for a guy in a wheelchair--you just sit around all day anyway, why not get paid to do it while watching out for a store? Well, if he gets rowdy people that he needs to throw out, it will be tough, or if he needs to foil a robbery, he's not going to be able to beat someone up, but you know what? That's what guns were made for. I don't care if you're a cripple in wheelchair, as long as you can aim and fire a gun, you do just as much damage with the gun as our Governator who's much stronger. My thought is to give the cripple a gun, and let him do his job. Except that this guy is a rent-a-cop type security who doesn't have a gun. What does he have? No, not mace, not a baton, but a radio. Good. Just what we need, a cripple with a radio guarding a bank. Probably in the interest of not scaring people by having a firearm present at the bank, we have a useless security guard. The sad thing is, this poor guy is basically a target. If someone walks in armed, what is he going to do? Call for help? Ask the robber to pick up his radio if he drops it? As soon as he uses his radio, he gets shot. Ooops. Guess you should have been wheeling yourself out of the way while calling in the crime... but wait, that would require three hands--two to wheel yourself around, one to put the call in. Maybe if they got him a Little Rascal. What would calling someone accomplish? He'd probably get shot, especially if he was on a electric scooter, just because the robbers wanted something stupid-looking to shoot at. Jesus, give this guy a goddamn shotgun. Betcha you won't have a bank robber fucking with a cripple in a wheelchair when he's got a loaded 12 gauge.
This whole town is made for handicapped people, but they don't give the handicapped people the tools to do their job properly, or they give them a job they can't do. They are treated as equals. Guess what? They're not. They're missing legs, or arms, or whatever, and they can't function normally. Give them what they need to do their job or don't ask them to do something they can't accomplish. There's no point to asking a quadropolegic to be a fucking dock hand. Have the guy do some computer work or something.
This town is positively insane. Equal rights are for everyone. Equal responsibilities are for idiots. Responsibilities should be based on capacity, not rights.
First, let's consider this: Mercantile Bank (or whoever) hires a man in a wheelchair to be a security guard. Honestly, it's probably a pretty decent job for a guy in a wheelchair--you just sit around all day anyway, why not get paid to do it while watching out for a store? Well, if he gets rowdy people that he needs to throw out, it will be tough, or if he needs to foil a robbery, he's not going to be able to beat someone up, but you know what? That's what guns were made for. I don't care if you're a cripple in wheelchair, as long as you can aim and fire a gun, you do just as much damage with the gun as our Governator who's much stronger. My thought is to give the cripple a gun, and let him do his job. Except that this guy is a rent-a-cop type security who doesn't have a gun. What does he have? No, not mace, not a baton, but a radio. Good. Just what we need, a cripple with a radio guarding a bank. Probably in the interest of not scaring people by having a firearm present at the bank, we have a useless security guard. The sad thing is, this poor guy is basically a target. If someone walks in armed, what is he going to do? Call for help? Ask the robber to pick up his radio if he drops it? As soon as he uses his radio, he gets shot. Ooops. Guess you should have been wheeling yourself out of the way while calling in the crime... but wait, that would require three hands--two to wheel yourself around, one to put the call in. Maybe if they got him a Little Rascal. What would calling someone accomplish? He'd probably get shot, especially if he was on a electric scooter, just because the robbers wanted something stupid-looking to shoot at. Jesus, give this guy a goddamn shotgun. Betcha you won't have a bank robber fucking with a cripple in a wheelchair when he's got a loaded 12 gauge.
This whole town is made for handicapped people, but they don't give the handicapped people the tools to do their job properly, or they give them a job they can't do. They are treated as equals. Guess what? They're not. They're missing legs, or arms, or whatever, and they can't function normally. Give them what they need to do their job or don't ask them to do something they can't accomplish. There's no point to asking a quadropolegic to be a fucking dock hand. Have the guy do some computer work or something.
This town is positively insane. Equal rights are for everyone. Equal responsibilities are for idiots. Responsibilities should be based on capacity, not rights.
Labels: Strange Things and Weirdos
posted by ChemicalJesus at 9:55 PM
1 Comments:
Visible guards are just a deterrant even if they are armed. Think about it, you have a guy standing or sitting all day in a uniform, so everyone and their dog knows exactly where they are and what they are doing. The only reason the guy has a radio is so the real gaurds sitting in the camera monitoring room can talk to him and wake him up if he falls asleep. I'll bet every teller in that bank has a panic button, and if that is the case why have a gaurd at all other than to act as a wal-mart style greeter. That and the PR job it does for the bank having a dressed up cripple sitting out in the open where everyone can see him and think to themselves, gee what a nice mega corporation for hiring someone who can't walk, I almost forgot that the intrest rates they are offering don't even beat HALF the national inflation rate.
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