Gymnasium Membership and Descrimination

[banditcrow]

I am schizo effective. I yelled at a gym employee at a gymnasium in New Haven where I play racquetball. I was kicked out of the gym. The reason I am not unable to rejoin is because I am a "liability." There are no other gyms around the area to play racquetball. As a result, I get no exercise nor the camaraderie which comes with playing racquetball at the gym. I would like to find someone who might be able to have my membership reinstated for reasons of discrimination. My doctor is supportive in this regard. Likewise are all members at the gym I associate with as well as the manager who was working at the gym during that time.

 

[cyjeff]

What is the basis of your discrimination?

You were not discriminated against due to your illness... you are discriminated against because you were a jerk to an employee.

That type of discrimination is perfectly legal...

 

[Zigner]

I am schizo effective. I yelled at a gym employee at a gymnasium in New Haven where I play racquetball. I was kicked out of the gym. The reason I am not unable to rejoin is because I am a "liability." There are no other gyms around the area to play racquetball. As a result, I get no exercise nor the camaraderie which comes with playing racquetball at the gym. I would like to find someone who might be able to have my membership reinstated for reasons of discrimination. My doctor is supportive in this regard. Likewise are all members at the gym I associate with as well as the manager who was working at the gym during that time.

Your condition does not give you the right to break the "rules"...

And, as the father of 3 children with psychological/emotional problems, I find it disturbing that you are trying to use your condition as a crutch and as an excuse for improper behavior.

 

[HomeGuru]

I am schizo effective. I yelled at a gym employee at a gymnasium in New Haven where I play racquetball. I was kicked out of the gym. The reason I am not unable to rejoin is because I am a "liability." There are no other gyms around the area to play racquetball. As a result, I get no exercise nor the camaraderie which comes with playing racquetball at the gym. I would like to find someone who might be able to have my membership reinstated for reasons of discrimination. My doctor is supportive in this regard. Likewise are all members at the gym I associate with as well as the manager who was working at the gym during that time.

**A: what a joke. You want exercise and friends? Heck get the group together and jog around the city, hit a public basketball court**************I think your brain needs a heavy workout.

 

[seniorjudge]

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My doctor is supportive in this regard.
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Explain how your doctor is supportive in this regard.

 

[cbg]

You were given a legal answer; you just don't like it.

Having any kind of medical, mental or emotional condition does not give you the right to create a disturbance. Nothing in the ADA requires the gym to accept behavior in you that they would not accept in a non-disabled person. The ADA is meant to level the playing field - not to give you rights that non-disabled members do not get.

If a non-disabled member could be thrown out for creating a disturbance, you can be thrown out for creating a disturbance. You're getting treated exactly the same as everyone else, which is exactly what the discrimination laws are there to enforce.

And if your purpose in posting here is to find a lawyer who will force the gym to take you back, please be aware that the rules of the site prohibit the referral of specific attorneys, and reputable attorneys do not troll message boards looking for clients.

 

[banditcrow]

Doctor

hmm....yes I would assume lawyers not to peruse these pages. However, the gym would not accept me back because I am a "liability" due to my illness. If I did not have the illness I would probably have been accepted back into the gym. Hence the discrimination. As far as my doctor is concerned, if a lawyer were to pursue such a case, he said he would write a letter in support of me saying that he sees no problem with me rejoining the gym and that the gyms feelings about liability are unfounded.

 

[seniorjudge]

hmm....yes I would assume lawyers not to peruse these pages. However, the gym would not accept me back because I am a "liability" due to my illness. If I did not have the illness I would probably have been accepted back into the gym. Hence the discrimination. As far as my doctor is concerned, if a lawyer were to pursue such a case, he said he would write a letter in support of me saying that he sees no problem with me rejoining the gym and that the gyms feelings about liability are unfounded.

However, the gym would not accept me back because I am a "liability" due to my illness.

That's not what you said in your first post:

I am schizo effective. I yelled at a gym employee at a gymnasium in New Haven where I play racquetball. I was kicked out of the gym. The reason I am not unable to rejoin is because I am a "liability." There are no other gyms around the area to play racquetball. As a result, I get no exercise nor the camaraderie which comes with playing racquetball at the gym. I would like to find someone who might be able to have my membership reinstated for reasons of discrimination. My doctor is supportive in this regard. Likewise are all members at the gym I associate with as well as the manager who was working at the gym during that time.

 

[banditcrow]

Judge

I am not sure where you are going with this, but the very next sentence after what you underlined is where I said just that.

 

[Zigner]

hmm....yes I would assume lawyers not to peruse these pages. However, the gym would not accept me back because I am a "liability" due to my illness.

No, you're a liability due to your improper behavior.

If I did not have the illness I would probably have been accepted back into the gym.

No, if you hadn't acted improperly, you would be accepted back in to the gym. Then again, you wouldn't have this problem in the first place if you had acted properly.

 

[seniorjudge]

I am not sure where you are going with this, but the very next sentence after what you underlined is where I said just that.

Let me explain it again: You (according to your posts) were kicked out due to your behavior.

That is legal.

Period.

End of story.

Even if.

 

[banditcrow]

Zigner

I don't know what people who either have no knowledge of mental illness or who have for some reason an uncontrollable desire to hold me accountable for my actions write on here, but, I saw an e-mail from the president of the company and it said quote, that I am a liability due to my mental illness and therefore cannot be allowed to rejoin the club.

 

[Antigone*]

I am not sure where you are going with this, but the very next sentence after what you underlined is where I said just that.

I am schizo effective. I yelled at a gym employee at a gymnasium in New Haven where I play racquetball. I was kicked out of the gym.

by his own admission he is nuts...so it would seem logical that in his nuttiness he would not understand why no one wants to play with him.

 

[Zigner]

I don't know what people who either have no knowledge of mental illness or who have for some reason an uncontrollable desire to hold me accountable for my actions write on here, but, I saw an e-mail from the president of the company and it said quote, that I am a liability due to my mental illness and therefore cannot be allowed to rejoin the club.

Yes, Lord forbid that one be held accountable for their actions!

 

[banditcrow]

Senior Judge...

What a low blow...my good friend.. trying to take a jab at the loneliness aspect of existence and just maybe if the person is weak enough you may damage them, and all of this from your little key board. What a petty little loser you are my friend. Why would you even continue with such baseness? I am so curious?