[nagdu] Question

[Tami Kinney]

Then there are those times when someone is coming up to help you by 
grabbing you and dragging you into the street... Or they grab your 
harness handle with the same goal. Or while you're gettin gon the 
escalator...

If there is a correct response to that, I would dearly love to hear it!

And, really, by the time you get your hands on your cell phone and get 
the cops called, what do you  say for starters? /lol/ If the person on 
the other end of the line asks the obvious, what are you going to say? 
No, fo course I can't desbribe him (he/it/whatever)! I'm blind. If I'm 
blind, why am I upstet that this person helped me across the streeet? 
Huh? *You* try it! /lol/

So I haven't tried it, on those few occasionas where I felt that someone 
in authority should do something about something to stop this sort of 
thing. If I ever get a copy of my part of the script there, I'll 
certainly give it a go. /grin/

Tami

On 10/16/2011 06:20 PM, Brenda wrote:
> Is it illegal to just come up to someone and touch them? What happens if
> someone grabs me and I push them away? How do I know they really want to
> guide me somewhere, maybe they want to pick my pocket.
>
> Can someone just come up and start fondling my purse or my umbrella or
> whatever they see on my person that they would like to examine further?
> Or my guide dog if I had one? If someone grabs my purse, what happens if
> I snatch it away from them and yell at them ? True, I might think they
> are trying to steel my purse, but what about my Victor Stream, maybe
> they just want to look at it?
>
> If it is wrong for people to come up to me and touch my things, why is
> it not a crime to touch a guide dog. It is not theirs - leave it alone.
>
> Once at work I had someone start fidgeting with my monocular which was
> sitting on my CCTV. I told them to leave it alone and they got mad.
> Later, they took my typing stand after I left for the day so they could
> use it and didn't put it back. I put a sign on it after that and they
> left it alone. They probably would have pet my guide dog had I one at
> the time.
>
> I just don't understand why people think they can just pet a guide dog
> and then get indignant when they are told not to by the handler. Are
> there laws that can be applied to someone touching me or my umbrella or
> my victor or my (someday) guide.
>
> I'm just annoyed at the unfortunate crazy stories people have had the
> occasion to tell of late on this list. Nothing against the tellers, just
> the perpetrators.
>
> Brenda
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> On 10/16/2011 7:23 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
>> Julie, no, this was resorted to twice. In both cases the persons were
>> being overly aggressive. They were blocking my way and were not
>> listening to anything I was trying to tell them. One person jumped in
>> front of me and began to pet Holly. I explained to him the usual and
>> he told me he was a vet and basically in more colorful terms he'd do
>> whatever he wanted! He then threatened to kill my dog if he couldn't
>> pet her so that's why he got the response he got! The other was a
>> woman who was being so persistant that I couldn't shake her.
>> Everywhere I turned she kept trying to touch Holly and get in my way.
>> I did have another woman who didn't touch Holly but kneeled down in
>> front of us and would move every time we did so we couldn't get around
>> her. She wouldn't let me pass until I told her what kind of dog Holly
>> was. When I did she called me a liar and I actually had to step in the
>> street to go around her! No, that one only got some really goofy looks!
>> Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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