Restroom stalls for use by all
July 3, 2008 · Updated 10:40 PM
I would like letter writer Ms. Becca Enyard to reveal where she found the law which calls for someone to be fined for using a handicapped accessible restroom.
There is no posted fine for using a stall on any handicap equipped bathroom stall that I have ever seen. And which agency would police bathrooms and enforce such a fine?
If it was illegal for a mother to change her babys diaper in the handicapped stall, then why would most businesses (including some Wal-Marts and McDonalds) place the baby changing station inside the handicapped stall?
And what about buildings where the only stall is a handicap accessible stall? Does this mean that no able-bodied person may ever use the restroom in such a building? Using Ms. Enyards logic, one would never be able to use the toilet at our local Wendys or Jack in the Box, or any of at least a dozen other businesses that I frequent in this town.
I do sympathize with Ms. Enyards problem. But since most people dont wear a handicapped placard on a string around their neck, its kind of hard to identify all the sorts of people who might have very legitimate reasons to use the handicapped stall.
Karen Gray
Oak Harbor
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