This is not a fail, it’s a misunderstanding, today when we think of handicapped people we think of wheelchairs, not the poeple with CANES people!
It’s so you can push off your cane to get your bum leg up on the stair.
While unusual, this is actually not as much of a fail as you might think. The stones act to lessen the depth of the step, allowing those who have mobility but difficulty with steeper steps to access the building. (A ramp would have been better and more versatile, but…)
Observe the picture a little bit better and try to explain HOW does it make it easier for a person in a wheelchair to go up the stairs with the help of those stones on top of the steps… I don’t think so!
the differential of X with respect to Y where r= the riser height and d= the treat depth = the rate of acceleration towards the ground…
*draws diagram too*
Read his comment a little better. He wasn’t talking about wheelchairs. He said:
“those who have mobility but difficulty with steeper steps”
This means someone who can use their legs, but not very well. Someone who might have trouble with regular-height steps.
That said, there is still something wrong here – since the stones stretch all the way from the back of the step they’re on to the front, they don’t end up making half steps except at the top and bottom. If you look closely, the distance from the 1st stone to the 2nd, and from 2nd to 3rd, is exactly the same as the distance from one step to another. The right way to build this would have been to use stones that only cover up half of the front-to-back depth of the steps. Engineering FAIL?
the right way to build this would have been to make a freaking ramp rather than using loose cooble stones (compared to frigid cobblestones?) with wheelchairs on them as a foreshadowing what will happen to any who try walking on them.
Although it is not accepted design practice; the intention is for an elderly to use the cast concrete plates with one step and the stairs with the other, essentially decreasing the rise by half.
Yeah, sorta, it’s better than nothing. Unless your wheelchair has more than one main wheel, in which case this “solution” is nothing but a chocolate teapot.
Even the first stone is marginal. but the next two are so small, that only one wheel will fit, leaving you canted to one side. Or just spilled on the ground at the bottom.
Actually, they’re no use at all are they? As they come to the edge of the existing steps, they don’t lessen the depth. Only the first and last steps are shallower, the rest of them maintain the same relative height.
Well, they are still useful since you can step to the SIDE of the riser before shuffling over to the riser. Or, put your left foot on the step before putting your right foot on the riser sort.
doubt you’d kill yourself, you’d just get bruised a bit – where’s your sense of adventure? as for wheeling periods, I’ll think you’ll find thats what sanitary towels are for, but granted there are some strings attached…
The genius who came up with this plan should show more sensitivity to disabled people. After all, his evident mental disability will catch up with him one day.
Why would they need to take the Hippopotamus oath? Is that so they can treat elephantiasis? What if they never have to treat it? Do they still have to take the Hippopotamus oath? I mean what has that got to do with anything? What is the Hippopotamus oath exactly anyway? I mean you said “take the Hippocra…”
… oh nevermind.
I see the fail. The top block appears to be rotated the wrong way.
It’s aesthetically unappealing and implies it wasn’t worth making the effort to make it look nice.
Three puzzles in one day? Let’s see. A handicap-accessible place that’s not handicap-accessible, yet it is, but it’s not. Hmmmm.
Clearly it’s Anubis dressing up as a fox while listening to Led Zeppelin. That’s the answer to all of life’s questions. Will it be cold tomorrow. Will I need an umbrella. If a train leaves Detroit at 4:15 AM heading east at 120 mph on a Sunday and the government is covering up a conspiracy in Winsconsin on a rainy day, how long will it take the apple to fall to the ground after being knocked out of the tree with a 5 pound baseball bat travelling at 104 mph? It’s the only answer that even remotely makes sense.
If a train leaves Detroit at 4:15 am heading east at 120 mph, it doesn’t matter what day it is or the weather conditions, everyone will promptly drown in approx 4 mins due to the GIANT lake between Detroit and Canada
handrail – whats the problem?
yes because wheelchair users drag themselves up stairs;
“do you need a hand sir”?
“no but I could do with some legs”
*drags himself up stairs*
That’s what I’d do – or maybe mount some detachable ramps on my wheel chair.
Design Fail.
Ski Chair – Invention WIN!
Why the backpack on the ground ?
I’m thinking kids & skatebaords.
I’m thinking Highly and Unappropriate.
*Inappropriate *dammit*
I’m thinking thankyou.
I’m thinking Arby’s
I’m thinkin’ … Oh look a shiny!
I’m thinkin’ your a fail.
Are you thinkin what i’m thinkin?
I think so, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of night?
I think so, but where will we find a duck and a hose at this hour?
I think so too, but where will we find Viagra and Wendsday Addams at this time of night?
i was thinking jumper cables and butter
first person to guess who i am gets a bukkit o’ pudding
HINT: *hug* dragon
I LEIK PUDDING!!! im thinking pickles and sunscreen
I’m thinking that on Failblog, the words Highly and Unappropriate carry no weight here.
I am thinking that “unappropriate” carries no weight anywhere as it is not a real word…
i’m thinking no words carry weight
Due to their inablity to carry weight, comments won’t nest below this level.
guess who i am
just guess
I’m thinking Siegfried and Roy.
I’m thinking tiger & blood loss.
I’m thinking Steak and Hero.
i’m not thinking, i think…..
I’m thinking Viagra and Cantaloupe.
Those are two great ice cream flavors.
Yeah, but when mixed together it gets too hard.
no more soft serve!
epic
yeah, they go hand in hand i guess…
It’s a setup I telleth ya’… Aka FAKE!
good for you.
A little red backpack is all that remains from the last person who tried to wheel down the handicap steps…
what appears to be a splash of water at the bottom is it fact saliva from the wheel chair user as he was carried off to hospital. Poor fellow.
lol & ewwww…….
You got it all wrong! They help the mentally disabled with those stones so they remember they way back downstairs!!
LOL! so good!
This is not a fail, it’s a misunderstanding, today when we think of handicapped people we think of wheelchairs, not the poeple with CANES people!
It’s so you can push off your cane to get your bum leg up on the stair.
its still fail.. why not just put a ramp instead.. if you was on a cane you would find it easier to use a ramp than still climb steps .. lol
SENSITIVITY FAIL
I think you prolly need some of that kids hero, Steak, put some meat on your bones.
Parking spaces for the disabled FAIL!
those would be some tiny parking places
Er…hence the FAIL.
Smart Cars would fit.
Extra steps are baller!
While unusual, this is actually not as much of a fail as you might think. The stones act to lessen the depth of the step, allowing those who have mobility but difficulty with steeper steps to access the building. (A ramp would have been better and more versatile, but…)
Line of thought fail!!!
Observe the picture a little bit better and try to explain HOW does it make it easier for a person in a wheelchair to go up the stairs with the help of those stones on top of the steps… I don’t think so!
*makes model and pushes wheel up and down* Yep – definitely easier with the little stones. *draws diagram*
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understood?
the differential of X with respect to Y where r= the riser height and d= the treat depth = the rate of acceleration towards the ground…
*draws diagram too*
*herds a group of lab rats*
in this experiment I will proove beyond doubt the relation of step size to fall rate
*hurls rats at Tightmanger and watches him fall down stairs.*
*makes notes*
*Takes left over rats and places them under stones to decrease the distance between the steps and the stones*
There, that’s better.
Exactly correct my dear blue2th! See, Ana, as the fractal pattern increases, the stair becomes more of a ramp in median geometry.
*packs up and rubs chalk off of blackboard*
*writhes in agony*
*writes in diary*
*writhes in dairy*
Dies in writhery
Drinks in winery.
Dances in finery.
Dares some flattery.
Shares some snuggery.
C-c-c-combo breaker!!!!
Read his comment a little better. He wasn’t talking about wheelchairs. He said:
“those who have mobility but difficulty with steeper steps”
This means someone who can use their legs, but not very well. Someone who might have trouble with regular-height steps.
That said, there is still something wrong here – since the stones stretch all the way from the back of the step they’re on to the front, they don’t end up making half steps except at the top and bottom. If you look closely, the distance from the 1st stone to the 2nd, and from 2nd to 3rd, is exactly the same as the distance from one step to another. The right way to build this would have been to use stones that only cover up half of the front-to-back depth of the steps. Engineering FAIL?
taking our fun away win. *cries*
the right way to build this would have been to make a freaking ramp rather than using loose cooble stones (compared to frigid cobblestones?) with wheelchairs on them as a foreshadowing what will happen to any who try walking on them.
Those cobblestones are loose–they’ve been underneath every guy in town at one point or another!
Although it is not accepted design practice; the intention is for an elderly to use the cast concrete plates with one step and the stairs with the other, essentially decreasing the rise by half.
Think about it this way: The right foot hits the step with the picture and the left fot hits the normal step. Make sense now?
Yeah, sorta, it’s better than nothing. Unless your wheelchair has more than one main wheel, in which case this “solution” is nothing but a chocolate teapot.
Even the first stone is marginal. but the next two are so small, that only one wheel will fit, leaving you canted to one side. Or just spilled on the ground at the bottom.
But who doesn’t love a listing cripple?
Who doesn’t love a cringing nipple?
The height doesn’t change. at least between the steps that have stones one them. Still FAIL!
Actually, they’re no use at all are they? As they come to the edge of the existing steps, they don’t lessen the depth. Only the first and last steps are shallower, the rest of them maintain the same relative height.
Which I guess would leave you trapped halfway up, as you won’t have the room to turn around without tipping.
I suspect this is a wheelchair-trap win!
Well, they are still useful since you can step to the SIDE of the riser before shuffling over to the riser. Or, put your left foot on the step before putting your right foot on the riser sort.
Perfect for one wheeled chairs. What’s the problem?
No. No. No, this is designed for people confined to pogo-sticks….geez.
Actually, I rather think it’s designed for people with pogo sticks for crutches.
… Geez.
…Dungereez
Unicycle.
Offroad unicycling, actually.
Didn’t I see that in the Olympics?
Unbeatable Banzuki
Unsinkable ships?
untenable stance
Unthinkable tips
Uneatable chips
Unfeasible nips
Unsingable Pips
Big pimpin’, spending…geez.
that’s a wheelchair accessible sign….i couldnt get my wheelchair up that therefore its not accessible
bet you could launch from the top though, couldn’t ya?
not funny…if i wanted to kill myself maybe and as for detachable ramps that would make it so i couldnt wheel period
doubt you’d kill yourself, you’d just get bruised a bit – where’s your sense of adventure? as for wheeling periods, I’ll think you’ll find thats what sanitary towels are for, but granted there are some strings attached…
This ramp is for jumping wheelchais only
Low rider hydraulics on the wheelchair win.
Handicap ramp? More like make-you-handicapped ramp.
congratulations! you win the internet.
Is this some kind of sick joke, what’s wrong with you peop…*falls down steps in wheelchair*
*people look round, then at each other, then run away*
*ja fail in his normal obnoxious state points and laughs, then goes and makes a hot pocket*
**FOOOOOM!!*s ja fail and his now VERY hot pocket and goes to help Blue2th*
*also turns the highest stone so the little wheelchair guy isn’t flailing around on his back like an overturned turtle*
*Does a few squat-thrusts before running away with all the cool kids*
The genius who came up with this plan should show more sensitivity to disabled people. After all, his evident mental disability will catch up with him one day.
his mental disability will catch up? why is it a little slow?
It is a well known fact that following every genius is mental disability. That is why they keep moving.
Don’t doctors have to take the Hippocratic oath instead of grammar 101?
Why would they need to take the Hippopotamus oath? Is that so they can treat elephantiasis? What if they never have to treat it? Do they still have to take the Hippopotamus oath? I mean what has that got to do with anything? What is the Hippopotamus oath exactly anyway? I mean you said “take the Hippocra…”
… oh nevermind.
Thanks, you just put one of the absolute worst Christmas songs in my head….crap.
My work here is done.
I see the fail. The top block appears to be rotated the wrong way.
It’s aesthetically unappealing and implies it wasn’t worth making the effort to make it look nice.
no, no! It’s a diagrammatic representation of what will happen on your trip up and over.
I’d like to think they light up as you reach each stage of the fall back down in a Billie Jean video style.
Furthermore, who is manufacturing handicap headstones?
The same people who manufacture wheelchair accessible coffins I assume.
I shall dub thee Mother In Law ramp…
This is… bizarre.
This is… brazzer.
This is a Brassier! *elastic flicks into eye*
This is my brass ear! *polish gets into eye*
These are the Bra’s from Sears. *gets burning sensation*
We went to some bars for some beers.
this is a brash leer *leers over tightmanger in the bar*
this is a bashed deer *hangs deer up in the bar*
this is bare fear *Strips and shreeks*
THIS is bear fear *holds up teddy bear and shreaks*
THIS is a bear glare *glares at shreaking teddy bear*
CARE BEAR STARE!
*Wooooooooooooooooooooooooosh*
*tries to figure out yet another way to misspell shrieks*
….SHREIKS!!
Sheik Yerbutti.
Shrek Sorbet
These are bare necessities *Mastubates profusely*
Thats bear molestation *Bad Touch! I need an adult*
No, THAT’S bear gestation.
or bear self-aggravation *sexual harrassmant panda hangs head in torrent of abuse*
barely self-depravation of of aggravated bear masturbation *and the bear is pissed about it*
Brass Monkey
That funky monkey!
Chunky dunky
I’m not sure this is real. It looks as if somebody found some stones with handicapped symbols on them and placed them there for the picture.
I think the stones were already there and someone placed the backpack there for the picture.
Maybe the picture was there and somebody placed the stones there for the backpack.
Maybe the picture isn’t really a picture but a time portal to another world where stones and backpacks live in harmoney.
I need some har money. For hars.
Go trespass…
Tresspassers will be stoned with backpacks.
It’s high time!
fetches bong and selection of mushrooms
*on the lookout for stoned backpackers*
Hey dude, which way to the funky stair the people are are putting the word out about? *puffs*
I wanna go trippin.
that would explain the drool splash at the bottom…
omg, that explains sooo much, the backpack is stoned.
PHOTOSHOP! THE SHADOWS!
I think the backpack used a camera with a timer and rolled up the conveniently placed handicapped stones to pose.
Yeah, that shirt probably just edged into the picture to ham it up.
beef it up.
Stop mincing your words.
*writhes in Angus*
could we please carve a new vein of discussion? I want to get to the heart of the matter.
But it makes me calm.
*steaks claim*
I shall block the sun from your tenderize my dear dragon.
Damn guy’s you’re just sooo funny, i’m laughing really hard, only reading your posts^^
Well done. Such comments are very rare around here.
I sense sarcasm in ‘dem ‘dar Yuki hills.
Want me to roast him?
Nah, we will wait….
*waits*
In that case, I’m going to go get my fortune read by a psychic. She’s really good, too, I’ve heard.
‘Cuz, you know, a well-done medium is really rare.
Ok, hurry back and have a veal good time!
Tar-tare, have a good time!
Carpaccio later.
I got arrested once for hitting a palm reader who I thought was laughing at me. Can you blame me for striking a happy medium?
lol no it wasn’t sarcastic, i’m REALLY laughing when I read your messages.
100
+1
+2th
+3.345612th
+πth
pieth? WTF?
close, but no, PIth.
lemon πth!
*pats tight on head* Yeeessss…
*suffocates*
*begins CPR*
*Shouts at cicli*
WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU DOING? LEAVE IT!!!!
It`s ok, cicili has AED certification. If anyone can help tightmanger, its cicili.
Great…they get all the good parking spots and now we have to give em the stairs too?
yeah next they’ll want to use my lavatory. I say we exterminate them now.
*sees potential gains in the puncture repair kit market*
didn’t you just suffocate? someone revoke cicili’s cpr card!
*gets in trash can and waves about a plunger and a whisk*
*whisks away stolen plunger and waves*
I have a urgent matter to attend to.
for you OCD’ers out there…..*an urgent
The handicapped people got into the bathroom didn’t they?
*standing in the “wheelchair accessible” stall….crying*
Bwuuahahahahaa…
*hangs blue placard from rear-view mirror and gloats!*
I should of known only a dragon could produce something like that.
*thinks is going to need a bigger plunger*
Ya – now there are hand holds…which reduces the number of toilet FAILS
Three puzzles in one day? Let’s see. A handicap-accessible place that’s not handicap-accessible, yet it is, but it’s not. Hmmmm.
Clearly it’s Anubis dressing up as a fox while listening to Led Zeppelin. That’s the answer to all of life’s questions. Will it be cold tomorrow. Will I need an umbrella. If a train leaves Detroit at 4:15 AM heading east at 120 mph on a Sunday and the government is covering up a conspiracy in Winsconsin on a rainy day, how long will it take the apple to fall to the ground after being knocked out of the tree with a 5 pound baseball bat travelling at 104 mph? It’s the only answer that even remotely makes sense.
If a train leaves Detroit at 4:15 am heading east at 120 mph, it doesn’t matter what day it is or the weather conditions, everyone will promptly drown in approx 4 mins due to the GIANT lake between Detroit and Canada
They`re not handicapped, they`re handicapable!
and for some reason my apostrophes are backwards…
It’s the force…..or It`s the force.
It`s all a farcé
*farts*
Maybe it’s art, and we just don’t get it. :shrugs: Seen stranger things.
I just sat a read all these comments and now i cant remember what the fail was
:S
something about a sideways man in a wheelchair and a hippopotamus?
Hey, this isn’t a fail!
This is just a picture from before the wheelchair access ramp seeds sprouted and grew into a mature ramp.
Oh great… another staged FAIL….
Hmm, just had to drop a note… I live up the street from this and walk by it every day. I’ve got to admit, I’ve wondered before…
That is definitely an accessibility fail. If they don’t move that backpack, someone might trip.
the dude in the wheelchair might trip? he’ll just get some hydraulics and hop the pack -_^
Everyone knows that people in wheelchairs are really super heroes in disguise *rolls eyes*
Where is this? Folks who cannot do any steps won’t frequent this place so it is a moot attempt to poorly satisfy the ADA code.
Accessible means a ramp of a specific steepness- for all you joksters- hope I am around when you need a ramp! I’ll be sure and youTube it! ha!
NOT FIRST
failblog.org, how do you do it?