Especially for Lawyers – Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 11: FTA Regulations and the Cub Scout Handbook.

Poor training and reckless disregard do not dominate the provision of transportation of our severely disabled residents. These failures often do great harm to a subsection of their passengers. But be careful to not make things worse by trying to outsmart those individuals likely to be familiar with these patients. And if you have forgotten the lessons you learned as a Cub Scout (or perhaps even a Brownie), if you get caught trying to pretend that something other than your violation of these childhood lessons was at stake when you committed them, you could be that rare fool who pays dearly for failing to remember that lesson. One such fool in a case I’m actively involved in – and possibly his accomplices -- is about to enjoy a serious, multi-year life-altering experience in one of our nation’s rundown hotels of incarceration, with little interest in the experience making him a better person when the ordeal is eventually over.  Lest you forget, this isn’t Norway.

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