GET TOUGH ON THE DISABLED

"Our rules are more important than your disability. We will teach you to obey by towing away your wheelchair van. You must be lying about the 350 pound wheelchair that could come tumbling out the back door on the freeway." -- Thoughts (?) of Landlord, security guard, and tow company.

I am so sorry that my request for a reasonable accommodation was denied in such a way as to endanger the driving public. But I do not understand people who would tow a wheelchair vehicle when the owner was 20 feet away. The vehicle was NOT blocking traffic or access. 

I tried to let everyone know that the heavy wheelchair was not properly tied down. Experience has taught me that it is much safer to use a flat bed truck when towing a wheelchair vehicle with rear access. But punishment would not wait for a safer towing vehicle.

Safety of the public, and common courtesy, are not present when men decide that this is their territory and they WILL be in control. This is much like the judge who told a defendant to crawl up the stairs to his courtroom. (There is a funny House episode with House abandoning a wheelchair during a parking place spat.)

This is exactly the kind of over enforcement that is caused by the broken window police policy. It starts out trying to keep driveways clear, then soon people are arrested for waiting in the driveway for a disabled friend.

For me, it is not so much that my van was towed. It is that I am now much less mobile. You have made my world smaller. Why?

I also feel really hurt and sad. What kind of people harass the disabled?