Illegal use of HP placard at Wolfeboro Town dock

[lawn psycho]

Originally Posted by Airwaves

Originally posted by SOD
Actually no.

I have a nephew with a neuromuscular disease who is confined to a wheelchair and as he grows older and larger his muscular ability deminishes! He sits (lives) in a 300lb electric wheelchair. Family members are not lifting him out of the boat at the Wolfeboro Docks! He needs a lift at our dock to get him and his only source of mobility, his chair, in and out of the boat.

Handicapped does not mean someone with a limp!

So if Wolfeboro is going to have a handicapped only docking space then the town needs to make sure it can actually accomidate a handicapped person with all the baggage that comes with being handicapped.

Putting up a sign doesn't cut it and since NH law does not provide for handicapped bow numbers it is nothing more than feel good crap. Sound familiar?

So the town should provide a lift for a wheelchair bound person to board a boat? Say what? Do you have a life vest that will float him and the chair????? I guess the town or state should provide that too?

It's not a town's obligation to provide a lift for someone to get into and out of a boat. That's just ridiculus to think a town should be providing something like this.