[nagdu] motorized wheelchairs was re soul searching - question

[Brenda]

I am amazed to hear some of these crazy cane stories especially when the 
inconsiderateness happens repeatedly, but although a cane user (like the 
one that almost crushed Bibi can be dangerous, a moving vehicle is 
worse.  My sighted husband has almost been run over several times by a 
person using a motorized wheelchair.  Once outside the Rehab Agency 
where I was going for a meeting, a man sped by in his motorized 
wheelchair and yelled excuse me as he sped away after I yelped.  Not 
sure how close he was but I felt a breze as he went by.  I have 
encountered far more inconsiderate motorized wheelchair users than cane 
users, and the damage they can do to a dog or pedestrian is more severe.
Brenda
scissors - wheelchair runs over dog who
actually, at the last convention or two that I attended, while there 
were issues
wiht stressed out dog and cane users, which could get irritating, the 
issue I had
the msot was with the one gal in a motorized wheelchair.  that gal 
thought she was
hell on wheels, and she jsut plowed through crowds.  My dog had to make 
quick moves
around her which she took offense to, but geez, I did not want to be 
road kill!!!
But she was probably as stressed as the vast majority of folks trying to 
not only
learn new territory in a short period of time, but were trying to get 
from point
A to point B so as to not be late for their intended destination.
Vanessa Lowery, LGSW
Adult and Community Services Division