Very strange question but it is bugging me

[nutcracker]

Are people who play wheelchair basket ball actually always wheelchair bound or do able bodied people play it in wheelchairs too ?????

Sorry i know it is a weird question, just need to know.

[Blossomhill]

I should imagine that the only people that play wheelchair basketball are people with a disability and need a wheelchair nutty!

[nutcracker]

Sorry but bump

[nailpolish]

good question! i dont see how an able bodies person would be banned from participating. that surely would be discrimination

[nutcracker]

Right ok, do the police accept people in whelchairs though ???? to work for them i mean ????

Sorry i know this is odd but i know what i am on about.

[nutcracker]

Ok will try and explain cos i can see this will get confusing.

A policeman who plays wheelchair basketball, would you say he is actually wheelchair bound then or not ??

[moondog]

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Yes,these people are regular wheelchair users!

[nailpolish]

nutty, you are nuts

the police have wheelchair users working behind desks,

[nailpolish]

oh ok MD ill go and have a look

[nutcracker]

Yes but he doesn't work behind a desk i don't think.

[NotQuiteCockney]

I think for a wheelchair basketball team, they have a points system, you need a certain level of overal disability to make your team be valid. (Although I might be thinking of a different disabled sport?)

[nutcracker]

Ahhhh right ok.


Sorry i know it was a weird question, and yes i am nuts

[darlingbud]

a policeman cannot go on the beat in a wheelchair. They tend to do office based jobs and interviewing etc. Not sure if they become policemen whilst disabled. I know the ones who are in wheelchairs became disabled after being employed.

[NotQuiteCockney]

No, apparently I'm thinking of wheelchair basketball . There is indeed a points system, and able-bodied people can play.

[motherinferior]

Re basketball - I imagine you have to be pretty adept at using a wheelchair to play basketball in it. So even if you do not have to show evidence of a disability the chances are that you have built up that skill by using it long-term, ie through needing it because you are disabled. Whether or not people who have used wheelchairs in the past continue to play wheelchair basketball even if they are no longer using a wheechair for mobility purposes, I don't know.

Police - they'll have some sort of Equal Opps/disability policy, or ring the Disability Rights Commission, they should know. I cannot remember whether the police force is still exempt from the Disability Discrimination Act, tbh.

[nutcracker]

O.k thanks for clearing that up for me

Feel like a bit of a twit for asking in the first place but like i say it was bugging me

[nutcracker]

Well i think he is a policeman on the beat so thats why i was confused as to him playing wheelchair basketball.

Think i'll shut up now

[motherinferior]

According to the police website "The police service welcomes applications from people with disabilities and will do all it can to make reasonable adjustments, which will allow disabled applicants to do the job.

Please let us know if you have a disability and the type of adjustment, which you might need to enable you to apply for and do the job." I reckon it would be virtually impossible to get them to agree to a beat job in a wheelchair. Mostly because everyday environments are so inaccessible.

[nutcracker]

Thankyou, thats what i thought.