[Brenda]

I was wondering about that Zip...
Since when is it a right to be in someone elses house (or restaurant, for that matter), other than a priveledge?

[DrJones]

Unfortunately the guy in the restaurant can't just "toss" his patron. The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination against customers of a business based on certain characteristics. Classic examples would be, "I won't serve blacks." That, obviously, would be outrageous and everyone would agree that's wrong (I hope.)

But in this case, the guy tried to argue he had a disability and the business was unfairly discriminating against him because of that disability - to wit, needing to smoke "medical marijuana."

And rather than craft a reasonable remedy, the OHRC went off the deep end to say it was 'sticking up for human rights' by basically attacking common sense, and screwing this poor businessman. Do not underestimate how horrible the OHRC is. It is like some Orwellian nightmare, more akin to the Star Chamber than a true court.

Even worse - the businessman has to pay for his own defence and the lunatic "victim" gets everything done for him for free. Your tax dollars at work!!!!

[Canadian_Mind]

hurley_108 wrote:

Anybody notice this gem from the asshat lodging the complaint?

Quote:

“But I don’t like a lot of smells either,” he said. “I can’t bare to stand near some chicks, they’ve got so much perfume on, let alone some ethnics that I don’t like the smell of that much.”

Yea, I was about to post that. Racist fucking prick.

[Zipperfish]

Brenda wrote:

I was wondering about that Zip...
Since when is it a right to be in someone elses house (or restaurant, for that matter), other than a priveledge?

It's not a right in my books. There is a legal component to it. I remember a bar got in trouble in Winnipeg because it through out Indians as soon as they walked through the door, so I guess there is a rights compnent to it. But I think the owner should be able to throw the guy out.

I'm just sick of these societal perpetual victims who try to control others by being pathetically weak. I'm talking about teh ones that complain that they're going to get cancer if they walk by a smoker, or insist on workplaces be "fragrance-free" (as if there were even such a thing). We're turning into a sterile society thanks to the "rights-based" whining on the left and the irresistable urge to ban everything on the right.

Who gives a rats ass if the guy is smoking pot in the doorway? You're subject to it for all of one second. Suck it up. Or better yet hold your breath.

[Brenda]

Zipperfish wrote:

Brenda wrote:

I was wondering about that Zip...
Since when is it a right to be in someone elses house (or restaurant, for that matter), other than a priveledge?

It's not a right in my books. There is a legal component to it. I remember a bar got in trouble in Winnipeg because it through out Indians as soon as they walked through the door, so I guess there is a rights compnent to it. But I think the owner should be able to throw the guy out.

I'm just sick of these societal perpetual victims who try to control others by being pathetically weak. I'm talking about teh ones that complain that they're going to get cancer if they walk by a smoker, or insist on workplaces be "fragrance-free" (as if there were even such a thing). We're turning into a sterile society thanks to the "rights-based" whining on the left and the irresistable urge to ban everything on the right.

Who gives a rats ass if the guy is smoking pot in the doorway? You're subject to it for all of one second. Suck it up. Or better yet hold your breath.

Then again, at the same time, this weedsmoking lazyshit is killing this guys business. If you are too weak to work, and have to smoke pot to "get you through the day", wtf are you doing in a restaurant? If you can do that, you can make laundry pins or something too, a couple of hours a day... If you are intelligent enough to know your way to the Human rights office to start a lawsuit, then you are intelligent enough to work for the government. Go fume the cafetaria or the patio there.

Don't freakin complain if the business you like to attend is losing clientele, and thus going broke.

I'm sorry, but my sympathy goes to the business owner, instead of the lazy piece of shit that is profiting from society.

[wildrosegirl]

Here's another judge that needs a good, firm slap upside the head. How on earth can ANYONE in their right freakin' mind find for this arrogant, selfish, whining pot head, jeopordize a respectable business, and a man's livelihood, simply because he asked this pecker-headed neaderthol to show some common courtesy to other patrons?

*deep inhale*

Oy!