'Fake Disabled’ People Skip Queues at the Expo Site!

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'Fake Disabled’ People Skip Queues at the Expo Site!
Jun 9, 2010 21:20
CHRISTINE Points: Join Date: Sep 30, 2005 Status: offline Community Moderator	How long do you have to queue for visiting a pavilion at the Shanghai Expo site? You will be frustrated if you get the answer. To visit those popular pavilions such as China Pavilion, Spain Pavilion and Belgium-EU Pavilion, you might wait for more than 2 or 3 hours. In order to skip the time for queuing, some people figure out an easy way---pretending as ‘the disabled’. According to a certain rule, the seniors (over 70 years old), the handicapped, pregnant women and babies can skip the long queue and enter the pavilion through GREEN channel. Thus, some people rent the wheelchairs at the expo site to pretend as ‘the disabled’ so that they can enjoy a quick-pass. Because of the fake disabled people, those who are really in need of wheelchairs can not rent one. There are eight places inside the expo site that offer wheelchair rental service. Yesterday, a journalist visited two of them and was told that there were around 1000 wheelchairs but they were all rent out before 10:30. A local graduate in Shanghai wrote a letter to the city leaders, condemning this shameful and uncivilized behavior.
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Jun 10, 2010 02:16	#1
BL2022 Points: Join Date: Jun 2, 2010 Status: Offline	Terrible! I will never ever do it. It is unfair to people who are waiting, for they are forced to wait longer times. But it is understandable. What if you were a traveler have a limited time for visiting? Will you waste it in waiting and go back without seeing anything or make a quick-pass? I think the Expo office should take some measures to solve this problem.

Jun 10, 2010 03:52	#2
LONELYJOURNEY Points: Join Date: Oct 28, 2009 Status: Offline	What can I say? If a man has no feeling of shameness, he/she can do this. BL2022, saving time is not the excuse for her to break the rule. No excuse for her act.

Jun 11, 2010 02:49	#3
BL2022 Points: Join Date: Jun 2, 2010 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by LONELYJOURNEY BL2022, saving time is not the excuse for her to break the rule. No excuse for her act. Emm, they really did a terrible thing.

Jun 12, 2010 08:03	#4
LARRYBOY Points: Join Date: Apr 10, 2009 Status: Offline	Its also shameful that there are people that will park in Handicapped parking spots at a local shopping mall or store and walk around for hours in a size store of 100,000 square feet, or more,, but they needed the handicapped parking spot close to the store so they would not have to walk too far from the front door. They cant walk across the parking lot but can spend endless hours walking and shopping,,,Amazing!!
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Jun 12, 2010 18:37	#5
WUYUETIAN Points: Join Date: Jun 9, 2009 Status: Offline	LB, if u were there in Shanghai Expo, u would be no gentleman any more. If it's me, I would encourage my parents to go thru green channel via wheelchair rental even though they are not 70 years old yet.

Jun 12, 2010 19:17	#6
LARRYBOY Points: Join Date: Apr 10, 2009 Status: Offline	Your right Wuyuetian my apologies,, I should of elaborated, a little more in detail on my comment. My comment applies only to the "abusers" who are healthy and "lazy" and should not take away, from those who need it most. ie: elderly and handicapped.

Jun 12, 2010 20:14

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Its also shameful that there are people that will park in Handicapped parking spots at a local shopping mall or store and walk around for hours in a size store of 100,000 square feet, or more,, but they needed the handicapped parking spot close to the store so they would not have to walk too far from the front door. They cant walk across the parkin...

That's what I see everyday. If I was a traffic police, I would stamp the tickets on every car that occupies the sidewalk. Seriously, Their driver licenses should be revoked too.

Jun 12, 2010 20:17	#8
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by WUYUETIAN LB, if u were there in Shanghai Expo, u would be no gentleman any more. If it's me, I would encourage my parents to go thru green channel via wheelchair rental even though they are not 70 years old yet. Considering of the queuing time, there is no other better solutions. But this can not be an excuse for breaking the rules.

Jun 12, 2010 21:07

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I agree Jimmy, there will always be shiftless opportunity seekers, just as long it is convenient for themselves. The well off people that have the big expensive cars think that they have a right to park right in front of a supermarket doorway because of what they are driving, or who they think they are. These are the people I myself like to accidentally on purpose lose control of my shopping cart only to let it hit their car and put a nice size scratch in it! Oopps!! sorry should not of been parking there,, haha.

Jun 12, 2010 23:11	#10
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Larry, did the car owner beat you or ask you to pay the money for repairing the scratch?

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