[Jobs] FW: [Blindad] Fw: blind taxi drivers

[Peter Altschul]

An unnamed Norwich City Council representative has described 
recent
events as "political correctness gone mad" after plans were 
announced
this afternoon of a new initiative to increase the number of 
blind
taxi drivers in the city to record numbers in an attempt to 
radically
cut taxi waiting times.
Up until now, the taxi driving profession has completely excluded 
the
blind community, reasoning that they cannot actually see 
anything,
but with new laws coming in from Brussels to promote equal rites 
and
anti-discrimination for all European Union citizens, the cities
streets will be changed forever as such outdated considerations 
and
predigests will be swept aside as the visually impaired take to
Norwich's roads.
To aid the transition of this new initiative from the faceless
beaurocrats in Brussels into everyday Norfolk life and to 
increase
public awareness, the so named "senseless taxis" will be white in
colour and will be proudly promoting the logo of a golden 
retriever
wearing mirrored sunglasses on each door.
Driving the scheme will be advances in the art of guide-dog 
training.
The dogs will sit in the front passenger seat of the taxi, 
barking
once for left, twice for right and three times for stop.  
Customers
are strongly advised not to distract the dogs; as such actions 
will
probably lead to a loss of human life on a colossal scale.
Customers are also being advised by the newly formed Association 
of
Blind Drivers that to shorten journey times and to keep costs 
down,
it will be helpful for the passenger to read out loud any 
relevant
road signs to the driver, as otherwise drivers will be forced to 
get
out of the taxi and locate the nearby Braille road sign 
equivalent.
Assuming that everything goes well with this new initiative it 
could
open many new previously closed career opportunities for the 
blind
and visually impaired community such as traffic police officers 
and
flying airplanes.  A spokesperson for the Royal National 
Institute of
the Blind Mr Norman Glaucoma, has labelled this venture as a 
brand
new day for their members and has strongly called on the DVLA to
issue driving licences to all blind people when this new 
technology
becomes available to all later in the year.
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