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  1. Rute Mantee says:

    Would have been worse had it been an arrow pointing down the stairs…

  2. velvet says:

    They should use the wheeechiair ramp instead!

  3. I’m guessing we’re going to see more of those climbing wheechiairs, what with all the handicap access fails…

  4. joe mama says:

    can i be a troll today?…i’ve never been this high up…….OKAY HERE IT GOES…..5rd!!!!!! woot!!!!

  5. Amber says:

    oh, yeah sure i’ll just drag my wheechair right up that! no problem, just wait at the top and cheer me on

  6. paco says:

    how do you mean not possible. you didn’t even make an effort

  7. DrB says:

    Rehab boot camp.
    So you wanna eat?

  8. Shadow says:

    I have to say, that wheelchair looks like it’s popping a pretty nice wheelie.

  9. joe mama says:

    seriously for every 14 stairs NOW u can permanently paralyze urself flying down at least 13 of the stairs….THAT’S MORE THAN HALF!!!!!!

  10. jeremmy says:

    lol!!

  11. DrB says:

    It’s the way to Big Joe’s manshop. They’re just advertising that they’ve got chairs for afterwards.

  12. izzyboy says:

    What, did somebody lay an open can of troll bait around here somewhere?
    *looks around*

  13. cowboys suck says:

    wheelchair access will not nest below this level

  14. sexelk says:

    just right. make them get up and walk like the rest of us. lazy b*stards!

  15. Tom says:

    Anyone else think that it looks like the wheelchair is leaning back, as if he’s getting ready to go up the stairs?

  16. hammykins says:

    There’s an arrow pointing from the two people to the handicapped guy, then the stairs. It seems to be a multistep process … first, get a wheelchair. Then, and only then, may you use the stairs.

  17. tom says:

    The sign is refering to washrooms, including a wheelchair accessible one. So ther must obviously be an elevator somewhere…and the term is disabled not handicap!!

    • munch says:

      You know, people get their panties in a bunch when you use the term “handicapped.” Then when you try to use a different term, people vomit vitriol when you use the term “disabled.” I have been yelled at quite vociferously by people who object to both. “I’m not handicapped!” screams one, while another says, “DO I LOOK DISABLED TO YOU?! I STILL FUNCTION QUITE FINE!” (Actual quote.)

      Look, the point is, whether your handicapped or disabled, you’re not physically capable like someone who has fully functioning extremities. This whole disabled-vs-handicapped-vs-challenged bull$#!+ has just got to stop. Stop it already!

      So get off your high-horse, and stop being such a stuck-up, persnickety, pompous prick about which term I, or anyone else, uses to describe those who are *ahem* “externally physically challenged.” OK?

      • Amber says:

        you are right! i am just a non-walking person. i am not handicapped being neither handy or wearing a cap. i am not DIS’abled mainly because i was never ABLE. oh, i might be crazy but i’m not diagnosed yet.

      • keshet says:

        The objection is because people are not their disability. Therefore he/she/xe is not “disabled”, but is “a person with a disability.”

        • munch says:

          Well, that’s fine, but that’s also five freakin’ words where only one or two will do. English has these things called “adjectives,” which modify other nouns. I’ll be d$$med if I’m going to say “a person with a disability” for every time I want to communicate that concept. It’s too long, takes too much time, and is prone to error, particularly since I tend to stutter slightly when speaking.

          Handicapped and disabled, in particular, both imply a context in which they’re used. IT IS NOT A VALUE JUDGEMENT. “He’s disabled” usually refers to a physical challenge WITHIN the context of some mutually agreed physical activity (e.g., like, climbing stairs) between the conversants. This context rarely needs to be specified explicitly, since to the intended receiver of the communication, it’s obvious. People outside the conversation, however, oft hear the term, and not being aware of the implied context, get all in a hissy-fit and make themselves to be fools.

          There are people who are disabled/handicapped/challenged/impeded and who don’t use wheelchairs, you know, like my grandfather, who needed a cane everywhere he went. I would never, EVER, consider taking him on an amusement park ride, were he still alive today.

          However, those who DO use such adjectives in a derogatory or judgemental manner are themselves quite mentally handicapped.

          I hope my position is now crystal clear. I’ll put the soap box away.

      • Caoimhe says:

        Actually, I think you’ll find in modern disability literature, ‘disabling’ is what society does to people who have different accessability requirements. It is not the spinal injury that disables somebody, nor is it being in a wheelchair, it is the bank with counters to high, the school with no step-free access, the too-narrow voting booth. It is the factors in society that disable somebody from participating fully.

        So ner…

        Anyhow, I love this type of fail. There is a bar where I live that has disabled loos down a flight of stairs, with no lift. Mental. Not to mention, my university has many ‘wheelchair accessable’ rooms that I just plain can’t get to in my scooter (and most powerchairs would struggle too) as the lift is tiny.

  18. ITSMERYANSHECKLER says:

    FIRST

  19. Avis says:

    True story: the bar down the street from me is in a hotel. Ok, all of the bars down the street from me are in hotels, but that’s not the point. The restrooms for the bar CLOSEST to me are downstairs. Reachable only by stairs. The stairs that run BEHIND the elevator. The bathroom, being a public bathroom is required to have a handicap stall. How is someone in a wheelchair supposed to get to this bathroom?

    There is a fully accessible restroom on the second floor, that one CAN take the elevator to.

  20. Phaet says:

    Disabled people should get on with the progress and learn to use stairs!

  21. iDood says:

    BRING OUT THE ROCKET CHAIR!

  22. Dalkorian says:

    Wow you people are dumb. The pictograph plainly reads “A man and a woman is required to push a wheelchair up the stairs”. Reading comprehension fail.

  23. musicluvr804 says:

    I figured it out! It’s saying Jesus (who has the best of man and woman) comes to the stairs and heals all the people in wheelchairs and takes them up to heaven!! I’m a genius.

  24. Ablwe Jones says:

    OMGosh dude that is the funniest thing I ever seen! Love it!

    RT
    http://www.total-privacy.us.tc

  25. Ben says:

    Oh, well would you look at that, it has a hand rail to assist the disabled person.

  26. niraj3k says:

    haha! Where was this photo taken?

  27. Hallberg says:

    is anyone commenting about the clip?

  28. Bimmy says:

    Uh oh, looks like they found Professor X’s one weakness

  29. its purrsonal says:

    If you go right up the steps, you will find the ramp for the handicapped. Thank you, have a nice day

  30. Steevie says:

    lol many, many comments……

  31. Yoda says:

    Wheelchair accessible; Yes*

    * Maybe, if you’re coming downstairs, if you’re Aaron Fotheringham.

  32. carsin17 says:

    maby where they are they have rockets on wheelchairs

  33. attorneys says:

    nobody understands why these signs are so hard to place.


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