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Restroom Access Act

Seriously?

People in need of speedy relief would get it under the Restroom Access Act, passed this week by the Assembly.

Those with severe bowel disorders could get state-approved cards that would let them use any retailer’s bathroom, even if it’s just for employees, under the legislation. The bill, approved Thursday on a voice vote, now goes to the Senate.

Common sense would dictate that if I’m a retailer and there’s a customer about to crap his pants in my store, I’d let him use the employee bathroom.  This strikes me as a solution in search of a problem.

Posted by Owen at 0930 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Seriously?  Nah…this HAD to come from The Onion?

   Posted by Steve on March 06, 2010 at 0943 hrs
   
   
   

2. Owen - you are forgetting that all businesses are evil and don’t care about people….

   (sarc)

   But its time for a part-time legislature.  They obviously have entirely too much time on their hands if this is the crappola they dream up as a higher priority than fixing the financial meltdown in the state budget.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 0948 hrs
   
   
   

3. This strikes me as a solution in search of a problem.

   Your Democrat government at work.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 1014 hrs
   
   
   

4. Once upon a time, I was in a store when a young lady approached the manager and asked if she could use the restroom. You could tell by how she looked and stood that this was an emergency.

   The manager told her that she couldn’t and directed her to another store he said that allowed people to use the restroom. After she walked away he had this smug look in his face.

   The dismay and sense of urgency in her face moved me to tell the guy that he was wrong and should have allowed her to use the restroom. He simply said it was store policy.

   From this I know the problem exist but its hard to believe that the State needs to be involved.

   Perhaps they should be revisiting the principal that was taught in the schools until the early sixties that we “should do undo others as we would have them do to us”.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 1132 hrs
   
   
   

5. Reminds me of: “My doctor says I have to take a laxative!!!” “Not in my store, you don’t.” LOL.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mQpYG2POM (hilarity at 1:05)

   Posted by Fuzz on March 06, 2010 at 1156 hrs
   
   
   

6. “Your Democrat government at work.”

   Well, like Paul Harvey said, “And now, the rest of the story.”

   Rep. Karl Van Roy (R-Green Bay) said he pursued the bill in part because his late sister had Crohn’s disease, a chronic intestinal disorder that affects an estimated 20,000 people in Wisconsin. Nine states, including Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, have similar laws, according to his office.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 1625 hrs
   
   
   

7. I have Crohn’s too, (although after my last surgery it no longer presents a problem) and I’ve never been told no, when I’ve asked to use the bathroom (and I’ve asked at some unusual places), although typically I’d see if I could get to a place with a public bathroom.  You do however get a really good insight into how a place is run if you use their bathrooms.  McDonalds earned my everylasting gratitude by always having clean nice bathrooms.  And after a few trips to the old Kohl’s food stores, I wouldn’t shop there for food, as if you went behind the scenes, those places were disgusting.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 1656 hrs
   
   
   

8. Do you really think we should remove all laws where “Common sense would dictate” behavior.  Have you spent any time in our society? Paid any attention at all to the craziness in your own community? “Common sense” is (a) hardly universal, and (b) rarely put into practice.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 1732 hrs
   
   
   

9. Well, like Paul Harvey said, “And now, the rest of the story.”

   I stand corrected.  Still doesn’t mean this isn’t a waste of the legislature’s time.

   And I should say I’m always running for the restroom - ask my kids - and I’ve found it to be the rare exception that a store doesn’t allow customer access.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2010 at 1905 hrs
   
   
   

10. Pat;

    The Authors sister had crohns disease. So what?

    In my opinion it still doesn’t justify authoring a state law to mandate the use of restrooms.

    In my experience the stores with the no public access to the rest room policy say so right at the entrance.

    Wanna know what my solution is?

    Go to the nearest service station or building WITHOUT a sign!

    Posted by Michael J. Cheaney on March 07, 2010 at 1032 hrs
    
    
    

11. I forsee a booming black-market business in fake “bathroom privilege” cards for junkies and the homeless.

    Posted by Harvey on March 07, 2010 at 1158 hrs
    
    
    

12. Every aspect of life doesn’t need to be legislated, and each of these laws take another little bite out of the liberties we once enjoyed. It’s not a business’s job to provide for someone with a “condition”, but we’ve become so nanny oriented, soon our esteemed legislators will have passed a law for every conceivable situation imaginable, and all of us will at some point be incapable of existing without breaking a “law” for one thing or another. Karl Van Roy has lost sight of what he was sent to Madison to do. Everyone has a family member with problems, it doesn’t mean we should be granting them special privileges that make their lives easier at the expense of intruding on someone else.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 07, 2010 at 2134 hrs
    
    
    

13. That’s a scream, Harvey. Perhaps there will be a credit check and a polygraph to get bathroom IDs.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 08, 2010 at 1058 hrs
    
    
    

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