Brighton tradesmen cheating on blind sailors

kengill

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I went down with one of my blind freinds today to look at her boat for her and she proudly told me of the new standing rigging she had paid for and the new flexible wire for the adjustable backstay. Apparently they said they'd done all the work and she beleived them and paid up.

The flexible wire (£45 plus VAT extra!)has never been replaced and looks the 27years old that the boat is.

All the bottle screws do not have any split pins in them and so the boat is not seaworthy. They only fitted two split pins in the backstay adjuster and they are not correctly fitted.

Who are these nameless pieces of excrement in the industry who seek to put people in danger just to make a few extra quid.

If you keep your boat in Brighton and you have work done please make sure you have someone independent check to see if the work has actually been carried out before you part with the cash. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
Thanks for the info and if you are sure if the facts, yo should name then so that others are fore-warned.

If your friend paid for goods and/or services and has a receipt, then the company are trading fraudulently. You could go to the Brighton Trading Standard Office, they can surely advise.
 
Yes name and shame them before they are the cause of a death, there is too many scumbags like them in Britian and we need to get rid of them.
 
Not naming and shaming is only going to extend the time these thieves are earning money at every other boaters expense.

I don't suppose she remembers what he looked, sorry, felt like did she? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Sorry....had to do it /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
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I don't suppose she remembers what he looked, sorry, felt like did she?

Sorry....had to do it

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You twat!
 
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I don't suppose she remembers what he looked, sorry, felt like did she?

Sorry....had to do it

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You twat!

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Glad you said it.
 
No sense of humour then?

I have friends in wheelchairs who call themselves rasberry's (Rasberry ripple = rhyming slang for cripple) and have many killer wheelchair jokes, and members of my family who joke about kidney dialysis, depsite attending it thrice weekly, so what do you think exempts blind people from having a sense of humour?

People like you perhaps?

I mean, it's not like she's ever going to see what I posted is it? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
These barstewards are complete criminals.I thin k your friend should contact trading standards .She should get some photographs and written evidence put together .
 
Before anyone is named and shamed, you should advise your friend to most definitely tell trading standards, and I would also go to the police as its quite possible a crime has been committed.

I'm being cautious, not because I don't believe you, but because there is a right and a wrong way of a) getting redress b) collaring dishonest people. RNIB might even have a legal help scheme, though I'm just guessing (there are quite a number of blind solicitors you know, not just D.Blunkett).

Tim
 
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You are to stupid even to realize Wye people are upset with you

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Not too stupid to spell a three letter word correctly, nor buy a chunk of car park to go sailing in, however.

Unless you were referring to the inhabitants along the Welsh riverbank...

Get a sense of humour you saddo's /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Yes, but while he is a scumbag, and has clearly striped her up if the story is as true as posted, I'm on her side, and want the villain named and shamed.

Most, actually all of my disabled mates are sick of being patronised and mollycoddled by do-gooders, and prefer a little gentle humour about their unfortunate plight.

What was a light hearted comment in the first place, actually before the comment which you quoted above (Read it again from the beginning) was miscontrued as abusive.

My point is, get a fecking sense of humour.... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

My Wife is deaf*....we learn to laugh about it, even though she can't hear me.


*Fact, not joke.
 
To start with, sorry to know your wife is deaf.

For people to makes jokes about their own disability is Ok, its good. But in a situation like a public forum its not good to make a joke of a situation where the subject is already suffering at the hands of a party that has taken the same view that you joke about, bad timing on your part.

The tide of opinion is against you on this I believe, a simple explanation as you have provided in your most recent post, plus an apology re: the current lady, would go a long way. Do the honourable thing, diffuse the situation.

Its nothing to do with sense of humour, so don't hide behind it.
 
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The tide of opinion is against you on this I believe,

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OK, now I will speak up.

I am bemused by the vitriol following what seemed to me a harmless and slightly amusing quip.

Why was that not OK, but the joke about blind pilots and screaming passengers or blind sky-divers with guide dogs (both of which have been posted multiple times) apparently are OK?
 
The idiots wouldn't know a joke if it jumped up and down on them shouting 'I'm a joke!' thats why...

I have nothing to apologise for as I merely made a harmless, non malicious quip, nor does my wife need to be insulted by your sympathy, although I accept your misguided comment was meant well. A courtesy, it seems, you have yet to extend to me.

It's about time people stopped going 'Aaah' every time they see people in wheelchairs and so on, and started treating them as equal.
 
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