May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]
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no joke when i was in hospital all the streetd around it had these and our car got towed away while i was in the ER it’s disgusting how they prey on the sick
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We live about 3 hours away from Chicago, but when my Dad was super sick with his cancer, his oncologist recommended that he go up to a bigger hospital in the city to get a second opinion.
He and my Mom drove for three hours and were shocked when they discovered that to park anywhere near the hospital, it would run them something like $40 per hour. At the time, my Dad was lucky to walk more than 3-4 feet before being completely out of breath (the cancer had spread to his lungs), so he didn’t have the option of just parking a few blocks away and walking to his appointment. Luckily, when they told the doctor about it, he had his receptionist comp his parking fees - but there are so many patients who are either too sick to fight it or just don’t know that it’s even an option.
Collin Kennedy is right - It’s a tax on the sick and it’s incredibly fucked up.
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I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.
I so want examples. anyone who knows of any should post them in notes
You know, like giant squid and such. We know the bastards exist, we have credible first-hand accounts stretching back thousands of years and dead specimens washed up on shore and such, but in centuries of searching we’ve managed exactly one well-documented encounter with a giant squid in its natural habitat. We have no idea what their native range is or what their life-cycle looks like, let alone how many of them are out there.
Are there any reverse-cryptids that /aren’t/ at the bottom of the ocean?
The red-crested tree rat, for one. There have been only three well-documented encounters since 1898, and they just plain disappeared from the zoological record for over a century. The only reason we know they’re not extinct is that one walked right up to a couple of wildlife research interns at a Columbian nature reserve back in 2011, apparently out of pure curiosity, and allowed itself to be photographed and observed for several minutes before disappearing again.
That’s genuinely pretty cool and all, but I absolutely need to talk about how the picture in that Wikipedia article looks like a tiny eldritch horror disguising itself as a peach.
To be fair, based on the actual photos from the 2011 encounter, they really do look like that:
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