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Complained about possible ADA violation and now am threated with legal action

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dan_c

Junior Member
It's quite possible that your condition could be one that would preclude you from participating per federal law.
It's also quite possible that everyone I came with that day had conditions that would prohibit them from jumping. *I thought that was why we all signed 10 pages of waivers...

who, besides you, said it did? Every time I go to my doctor's office he looks at me and says: lose some weight. He had given me a physical evaluation and determined, due to his training, that I am overweight.
No one (not even me) said it did. *But no one said it didn't either. *I just read the terms and conditions from their website and assumed it did. I know I misunderstood and I agree now that what he did could qualify as the physical evaluation, I am just arguing that he should make it clear that this is the case to avoid this in the future. If you knew, or were fairly certain, you were under the weight limit for some event that you'd been planning on doing for six months, would you take a doctors word that you were too heavy when you got there, or would you insist on being weighed?
 


justalayman

Senior Member
No one (not even me) said it did. *But no one said it didn't either. *I just read the terms and conditions from their website and assumed it did. I know I misunderstood and I agree now that what he did could qualify as the physical evaluation, I am just arguing that he should make it clear that this is the case to avoid this in the future. If you knew, or were fairly certain, you were under the weight limit for some event that you'd been planning on doing for six months, would you take a doctors word that you were too heavy when you got there, or would you insist on being weighed?



I would like to mention something you said previously:

The reason I had not listed it was because the sheet asked for any medical conditions, and honestly I did not even think of it as there is nothing medically wrong with me - at least in my mind.

It is great that you do not feel like you are in any way diminished by what happened to you to the point that, at least in your mind, there is nothing medically wrong with you. What you do need to realize that you do have some issues that can affect your life and can possibly limit your activities. I would take this experience and learn from it. Learn that not everybody is going to agree with you. Learn that, unless they are doing something illegal, even if you do not like what they are doing, there is nothing you can really do about it so either accept it or get over it because it is what it is.


Now, if you do want to skydive, since I have seen a guy in a wheelchair make a jump, many elderly people that are probably more limited than you are jump, and even a dog that likely doesn't follow directions all to well jump, I suspect you jumping can be arranged, somewhere. In fact, from what you said, it isn't that you weren't allowed to jump because of your issue. It was because they wanted a dr's note saying you were fit to jump. They really don't want to take somebody up in a plane and jump and have that exacerbate their medical issue. Nobody enjoys something like that to happen.
 

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