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Honolulu will impose fines on smelly mass transit passengers:


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545562,00.html?test=latestnews

How'd you like to have the job of going around, smelling people, to decide if they should get a ticket?

And this one. Bank of America requires people cashing a check for a third party (even if it's a check from an account at their bank) to provide a thumbprint. Okay. But...this man has no thumbs!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545560,00.html?test=latestnews

He provided two forms of ID, but they still wouldn't accept it without thumbprints.

Americans with Disability Act violation? I'm not lawsuit happy, but in this case...I hope he sues them.

Susan G.
 
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They just built an underground center for tourists visiting Washington DC to start their capitol building tours. Said "popular" congressman Harry Reid about it: "Now we won't have to smell them on the streets anymore."
 
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Funny as it sounds about fining smelly transit riders. I had a horror ride on the MBTA Green Line trolley one fine August day because of a guy's odor. Stifling hot, no air on the trolley and this guy gets on, he smelled so bad most of the other passengers eyes, including mine started to water. He sat in front of me :( I got off and waited for another trolley. Sun stroke was preferable to the stench.


As for Bank of America-they suck. Period.
 
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Susan Gable said:
Honolulu will impose fines on smelly mass transit passengers:


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545562,00.html?test=latestnews

How'd you like to have the job of going around, smelling people, to decide if they should get a ticket?

And this one. Bank of America requires people cashing a check for a third party (even if it's a check from an account at their bank) to provide a thumbprint. Okay. But...this man has no thumbs!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545560,00.html?test=latestnews

He provided two forms of ID, but they still wouldn't accept it without thumbprints.

Americans with Disability Act violation? I'm not lawsuit happy, but in this case...I hope he sues them.

Susan G.
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Re: thumbprint signature.

Sounds to me like this was a teller and teller supervisor that didn't quite understand "gray areas". Yes, there is 'policy' but it doesn't apply perfectly to every situation and you have to make judgement calls once in awhile. They didn't make a good one.
 
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My best friend used to work in a shop and some people came in smelling so bad it made everyone feel sick. They had a policy of asking people like that to leave (or 'Git oot, ya smelly auld bastard', which is most likely how it was put ;)). I don't know if a fine's strictly necessary. Just don't let them on in the first place. But I did have a giggle at the thought of a smell-rater sitting at the front of the bus. Maybe one of our AW scientists could patent a stink detector :D.
 
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