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| A "If you don't like it, too goddam bad, screw you Jack" letter, in a nice way by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/21/2014, 6:56pm PDT | ||||
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| April 20, 2014
Mayor John Rogard Tabori Town of University Park 6724 Baltimore Avenue University Park, MD 20782 Dear Mayor Tabori: I met you once, I was the election judge who signed you up to vote in the 2010 Presidential Election. This means if you remember me you know that I am in a wheelchair because I am unable to walk. A few months ago there was an incident where I was crossing from the walkway in front of my house where there is a wooden down ramp leading to a sunken area, which then leads to the up ramp which allows me to roll into the house. It had been raining and the ramp - which has friction pads - was slippery, and my power wheelchair - which at that time had tube tires - blew a tire on the way home and slid on the ramp, landing part way on and part way off, leaving me stuck so badly I had to call 9-1-1 to have the Fire Department extricate me from the spot because I was unable to back out of the spot and unable to move forward. This is kind of embarrassing to be stuck 6 feet from the front door of your house. The downward drop into the sunken area has always bothered me anyway over the 4 ½ years I've lived here, I keep telling the two-year-old child who resides in the back of my head and controls the right hand I use to run the stick, that it's impossible for me to fall, but whenever I'm leaning forward I can still hear him screaming how we're going to tip over. While I don't think I have mental problems, it's still hard to get the little guy in the back of my head to stop being scared every time I had to roll down that ramp. So, anyway, I finally wheedled the landlord into replacing the two ugly looking wooden ramps with a nice brickwork directly in front of the house, which also matches the brick of the building. I find the work to be attractive, plus it now makes the transition between the walkway and the front door completely seamless with neither an up hill nor a downhill, it's a very small amount of angle to allow for drainage, it's now essentially a flat surface. It also gives me the capacity to put stuff in the outside trash and recycling cans if I choose to do so as now I can actually reach them. This is to advise you that the change to the front of the house at [Address Redacted] has been done pursuant to the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 USC 12101 et seq.), which means that, under federal law, this is a construction done for the purposes of making this residence fully compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) found in the Code of Federal Regulations at 28 C.F.R., Part 36, Appendix A. Thus under federal law it does not require a permit or advance permission from the Town of University Park, even if the Town Ordinances otherwise would require either or both. This letter is simply a courtesy notice to let you and the Town of University Park know that the changes were done by the landlord to allow me, as a disabled person, full and safe accessibility to the first floor of the house and to the room I am renting in my home, pursuant to the above referenced federal law and regulations, and is not an illegal or unauthorized change to the home which might otherwise require a Town permit, and if anything, I think the fact the change is brickwork - which matches the house - instead of ugly wood ramps actually looks nicer than what was there last week. Sincerely Yours Paul Robinson "A computer programmer and Notary Public in and for the Commonwealth of Virginia at large and the State of Maryland in and for Prince George's County." CC: Davis Boucaud Sent via e-mail and U.S. Postal Service |
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A "If you don't like it, too goddam bad, screw you Jack" letter, in a nice way by 04/21/2014, 6:56pm PDT  Obvious Caltrops bait by 04/24/2014, 3:45am PDT |
