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SOD
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I would imagine those "mechanical devices" might be helpful family members who also might have pulled the family car into close range of said handicapped spot. C'mon, give some older person a break...why be so negative towards someone who is trying to get by (and just barely)on a day to day basis.
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Actually no.
I have a nephew with a neuromuscular disease who is confined to a wheelchair and as he grows older and larger his muscular ability deminishes! He sits (lives) in a 300lb electric wheelchair. Family members are not lifting him out of the boat at the Wolfeboro Docks! He needs a lift at our dock to get him and his only source of mobility, his chair, in and out of the boat.
Handicapped does not mean someone with a limp!
So if Wolfeboro is going to have a
handicapped only docking space then the town needs to make sure it can actually accomidate a handicapped person with all the baggage that comes with being handicapped.
Putting up a sign doesn't cut it and since NH law does not provide for handicapped bow numbers it is nothing more than feel good crap. Sound familiar?