Thursday, April 18, 2013
Russian version of a Soviet law
The ADA, championed and passed in America by Soviet Agent Bush The Father, has produced thousands of pointless sidewalk ramps at corners where no sidewalk leads away from the ramp. You can get onto the three feet of sidewalk around the ramp, but then you're stuck. You would have been better off staying in the street.
Leave it to the Russians to take pointlessness to its ultimate conclusion. Some examples here and here. I especially like the tree in the middle of the ramp, with a hole carefully cut and outlined. Die-Versity for the Distinctly Enabled, and Bio-Die-Versity for the Precious Fragile Endangered Tree, all in one!
For a refreshing pre-ADA view of disability, listen to this 1939 radio feature. At 3:45 in the clip, the story about the blind mailman.
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