A blind woman who also suffers from epilepsy was stranded two miles from home by a minicab driver who mocked her disability. The callous cabbie laughed at Lisa Medgett after she told him she could not see various local landmarks. Lisa, from Lee in South London, ordered a mini cab from Sure Cars in nearby Hither Green to take her to Bromley some four miles away in order to do some shopping. [Read more...]
Blind woman dumped miles from home by cabbie who ‘laughed at her because she couldn’t make out any local landmarks’
October 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Kicked off the bus, for what?
October 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A young woman, 19, is refused entry to a bus. Her crime? She carries a pass entitling her to free travel, as she suffers from epilepsy. But this, the bus driver declares, is just a “piss-take”. She must pay up or leave. When it comes to rank unreasonableness, he’s not alone. In recent years, we’ve had a model refused entry for being too tall, pensioners wrongly ordered off and a nine-year-old and [Read more...]
Teenage epilepsy sufferer with disability travel card ordered to get off bus by driver who said her pass was a ‘p*** take’
September 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A teenage epilepsy sufferer with a disability travel card was ordered to get off a bus by the driver because he said her condition was a ‘p*** take’. Jess McGee,19, from Bath, Somerset, was on her usual route to her job at a supermarket when she showed the driver her legal bus pass. As an epilepsy sufferer she is registered disabled and is entitled to free travel on public transport because she cannot drive safely. The driver on board the number 13 service asked to take a closer look and then demanded to know her disability. When she explained her condition he told her it was a ‘p*** take’ and ordered her to pay or get off the bus. Jess wasn’t carrying any money but was saved by a kindly passenger who stepped in and paid her fare. [Read more...]
Chinese girl, 13, tied to a moped as her family cannot afford medical treatment for her epilepsy
September 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
Tied to a moped, this 13-year-old girl is forced to trudge after her grandfather as he gathers rubbish to recycle on the streets of China.
Jiang Manqi’s family cannot afford to seek medical help to treat the teenager’s epilepsy, so she is tied to a moped so her relative can look after her. [Read more...]
