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- DeviantDragon, on 01/20/2009, -6/+388This guy's a crook. Thing about the ADA is that he doesn't have to really prove anything to have standing. Doesn't even have to show that he tried to use a places facilities. He could simply drive by, notice lack of handicap parking and sue and often times it's what he does. My dad owns some old property, built before ADA passed, that he targeted. This property housed old businesses that were barely successful and in some cases total dumps. He was not a visitor, frequent or infrequent to these establishments. Of course, it doesn't matter. No warning, no suggestion to build accommodations. He got a thousand dollar settlement from us because it's much easier and cheaper to just pay him to go away then to engage in a costly trial. It's total ***** what he does.
- Hearron, on 01/20/2009, -8/+289Dump this ***** out of his chair and watch him slither like the snake he is.
- S3Plan, on 01/20/2009, -4/+202What a piece of *****.
- Medicamusic, on 01/21/2009, -3/+193My parent's restaurant has actually been sued by this *****. They had to settle with him, then build a brand new added on bathroom to the old building.
This guy can rot.
Edit: He actually tried to get them again saying he was there on a certain date at a certain time, but failed to know that my parents also added video cameras since his first "visit". He got nothing. - OneRottenTomato, on 01/20/2009, -5/+173There's an armless woman who can pilot a plane and this whinny POS can't even reach for a sanitary toilet seat tissue?
This isn't advocacy. This is just two greedy people taking advantage of a legal loophole. I highly doubt he ever intended go back to these businesses even before he found a problem with them. This doesn't fix the problem. This only elevates animosity towards a much bigger group who are tired of being associated with these old and ugly stereotypes.
Legal extortion indeed. Enjoy your money now. Eventually that watering hole is going to dry up soon and you may have beg for work in the same town had to put up with your incapable *****. - KEMIC1, on 01/21/2009, -5/+172He might make 6 figures, but at least i can walk...
- inactive, on 01/21/2009, -4/+99Advocacy? Is he sharing that money with his fellow man? Is he donating it? No, he's hoarding it like the snake he is.
- mattyG, on 01/21/2009, -3/+93If this guy was an advocate for the disabled, then he should donate the money he gets from these settlements to disability groups.. What a tool.
Second of all, he looks like a goomba.
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http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=88221343b ... - mentallyinhell, on 01/20/2009, -7/+95As ***** up as this is, it's the system that allows him to exist as he does.
- Pinkertinkle, on 01/21/2009, -4/+89Somewhere is a flight of stairs down which this man deserves to topple.
- scootinger, on 01/21/2009, -2/+78If he truly wanted to be an "advocate" he would go to the businesses and make them aware of their violations, then possibly sue if they didn't make any effort to comply (which I could see happening). In that case, I could understand...because after all, if they admitted their error and fixed it, is it *that* big of a problem? I really hope it wouldn't be that hard for him to forgive the business owners for their mistakes.
Instead, this greedy scumbag goes straight to suing these businesses without even giving them a chance. Mr. Mundy is doing little more than helping create fear and hostility against the disabled, which he should be downright ashamed of. You should be an "advocate" for the disabled because you want to help others, rather than making a six-figure income and intimidating others...it's just like the RIAA claiming they're "advocates" for musicians by suing file-sharers. This man is a prime example of how ***** up our country has become. - TwwIX, on 01/21/2009, -2/+65Karma got him once, it'll get him again.
- monkeyrun, on 01/21/2009, -1/+63doesn't the court find it funny when the same person files the same type of law suite more than say 5 times in a row?
- CBOOTY, on 01/21/2009, -3/+63This especially sucks for small business owners. $2000 for a bathroom violation. wtf!
- yocouchdigga, on 01/20/2009, -2/+61"Let me tell you something else. I've seen a lot of spinals, Dude, and this guy is a fake. A ***** goldbricker.
This guy ***** walks. I've never been more certain of anything in my life!
Walk, you ***** phony!
It's all over, man! We call your ***** bluff!" - ShingoEX, on 01/21/2009, -4/+57The problem is the fact he's obviously not doing this to "right a wrong"...he's doing it for the sole purpose of making a quick buck off it.
- inactive, on 01/21/2009, -1/+53***** this *****! He sued Roy's Burgers, one of the best burger places in town, because they didn't have a wheelchair ramp. They couldn't afford a lawsuit so they closed up shop. This place was around for decades but no more.
- itsthehumidity, on 01/21/2009, -1/+52I do.
- PrintScrn12, on 01/21/2009, -1/+50Why should Bundy get settlements? If someone violates the act they should have a fine payable not a settlement to an individual to avoid court cases. After all if someone violates the act the problem isn't for Bundy or any single individual but rather any disabled person who legitimately wants to use the premises. So why give money to an individual.
With fines people can still make complaints and advocate, however there is less incentive for abuse. It can also mean money raised from fines can go towards funding the administration and help improve access for all disabled people rather than into a pocket of a single individual.
Now if Bundy took his settlement monies and donated towards a disabled cause he'd be an advocate, if perhaps controversial. Otherwise it just sounds like someone doing it for the money. - LordSkywalker, on 01/21/2009, -2/+50The ADA is *****. Ask Penn & Teller, they'll agree.
- Salanmon, on 01/20/2009, -4/+52it's too bad the reporter can't turn around and sucker punch him
- fwdtxt, on 01/21/2009, -2/+49I'm 6' 6" and I can't reach the stuff on the back row of a buffet without squatting really far down because of the sneeze guards... in gym I had a locker on the bottom shelf... bending over really far to get a drink out of some of those really low water fountains (that ironically were are wheelchair-accessible) strain my back... Am I entitled to anything? No! REASONABLE accommodations are necessary to a point. This guy disgusts me! The world is not fair.. do fat people have the right to sue a store for not carrying their size of clothing (obesity is a recognized health issue) ?
I hope actions are immediately taken to correct this loophole. I feel sorry for the business owners who have risked everything and worked their a**es off to be successful. - stix213, on 01/21/2009, -4/+50Ahh the quintessential wheelchair Nazi that plagues California. These types get businesses shut down, get people to lose their jobs because employers are burdened with costly litigation, and you wonder why California has the 3rd highest unemployment in the nation right now.
Who the hell would want to risk everything just to open a small shop? If you open a business in California... If you try to create jobs for people and yourself... YOU ARE GOING TO BE SUED FOR SOMETHING YOU NEVER REALIZED WAS A PROBLEM!!!
If you have a ramp, it won't be the right size. If you have a ramp the right size then they will find something else. Maybe your place isn't friendly to the blind, or you might need arms to open the doors, etc. It simply isn't worth the risk anymore to try to start a business in California unless under no circumstance do you have contact with the public (which is kinda hard when you are trying to run a business). - Spaceba11One, on 01/21/2009, -1/+46So do I.
- crobinso, on 01/21/2009, -4/+49.....he doesn't have to really prove anything to have standing. ....
He is in a wheel chair he cannot stand ;)
Also he is a douchebag and an extortionist, and i hope he hits someone with his van and gets sued for everything. - j0nheck, on 01/21/2009, -3/+47Step one: Go to his website at http://www.mehrban.com/
Step two: Contact them and inquire about things you notice, make sure they follow up, be persistent.
Step three: Fantastic, you wasted their time, and hopefully their money.
Almost like those 411 baiters. It could be called "mundy-baiting" - hbskinner, on 01/21/2009, -4/+42What a scumbag.
- JackSchittt, on 01/21/2009, -2/+40Anyone else notice how many things are EASILY within his reach?
20 seconds into the video: The windshield washer squeegie. LIFT YOUR ***** ARM UP, YOU LAZY BASTARD!
And what the hell does he need it for anyway? He's not even driving a car!
And the sanitary seat dispenser, two seconds later. Again.......LIFT YOUR ***** ARM UP.
God, I hate slimeballs like this. It makes it harder for people with legitimate disabilities to have their legitimate concerns addressed. - yikiad, on 01/21/2009, -3/+40He lives somewhere here in San Diego. He basically sued the entire town of Julian. But he got hit with frivolous lawsuit clause. What he does now is hire disabled persons to go to establishments and gives them a "cut". He's pathetic.
- iceman0113, on 01/21/2009, -3/+37Sounds like the guy who sued clubs for "ladies' night", called it sexual discrimination or something, and won every trial. I remember reading it on digg a very long time ago.
- Shissy, on 01/21/2009, -3/+35I want to jam a stick into his spokes. But he'd probably sue me.
- elliotys, on 01/21/2009, -4/+35What an *****. We should break his legs : /
- inactive, on 01/20/2009, -4/+34Scab
- Skunkhair, on 01/21/2009, -3/+33The only advantage to him being in a chair is that I don't have to lift my leg as high to kick him in the face.
- ClevelandBrown, on 01/21/2009, -1/+30Agreed, this guy is scum.
- SingularityX, on 01/21/2009, -1/+30I believe him, if only to spite you.
- Denominator88, on 01/21/2009, -3/+32Say that to his face. Please.
- Fixhotep, on 01/21/2009, -3/+30Exactly. If he was donating it, then more power to him. Pocketing it just makes it look like legal extortion.
- inactive, on 01/21/2009, -1/+26This happens regularly. I remember working for a firm and hearing about a guy doing something similar to this. He didn't work, he just found things wrong with businesses. We were defending one of the businesses.
- bulentm, on 01/21/2009, -1/+22His lawyer's email: morse@mehrban.com
Let the internets do it's job. - ObeseSnake, on 01/20/2009, -4/+25He must sleep soundly at night without a care in the world.
- inactive, on 01/21/2009, -2/+22THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!111
Oh come on, it was just sitting there staring at me... - Wolf73b, on 01/21/2009, -5/+24Tort reform now!
- tenio, on 01/21/2009, -4/+22why can't this 'man' buy himself a motorized wheel chair?
He must want to use the normal ones just to gain more sympathy - dikky, on 01/21/2009, -3/+21at some point he'll sue the wrong business owner and he'll end up getting killed
- nsharp1861, on 01/21/2009, -1/+19My dad is a paraplegic and he has actually had lawyers come up to him and ask if he wants to go looking for businesses to sue. It's disgusting.
- NSResponder, on 01/21/2009, -2/+20Is that website perfectly accessible to blind users? If not, then he's liable himself, isn't he?
-jcr - brad3378, on 01/21/2009, -0/+18I wonder if he could be sued for lying in a court of law or for filing a lawsuit on false pretenses?
- RiouG, on 01/21/2009, -2/+19$1000 for 3 inches.
- Squonk08, on 01/21/2009, -2/+19I wonder if this ***** is the same one that screwed over a customer of ours. We sell tropical fish to pet shops, and one of our customers renovated the second floor of his shop a while ago. Just when he was ready to move in the tanks, somebody suspiciously similar to the guy in this article complained to the city because the top floor was not wheelchair-accessible. In the end, the city ruled that unless the owner installs a prohibitively-expensive elevator, he can't use the newly-renovated space for retail. So now he stores boxes and stuff up there. It's probably not the same guy, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. It takes a special species of slime worm to sink this low.
This sort of thing is just plain despicable. I don't care who you are, or how disabled you might be--if you sympathize with what this guy is doing, then you've got some serious entitlement issues, and I advise you stay away from my business lest I show you the true meaning of a difficult life. The most dignified and respected handicapped people I know are the ones who don't let their condition get in the way of living out their lives, and who don't feel that other people should suffer just because they themselves do. What this guy is doing is purely extortion, and disabled people should be mortally offended by it. It's stuff like this that creates a stigma for the physically-challenged, and if we keep rewarding it by allowing it to continue, after a while perhaps we deserve the consequences. If we let any minority that screams loud enough get whatever it wants, then eventually we reach the level of this slimeball.
I'm not trying to be cruel, only realistic. I understand that there are hundreds of thousands of physically-challenged folks out there, and I am sure the overwhelming majority of them will be the first to tell you what this guy is doing is disgraceful. My only hope is that he is equally reviled by what remains of his family, and that he will eventually die alone, miserable, and in extreme pain. Sometimes wishes come true; we can always hope. -
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