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Diabetes focus of lawsuit
A former Sugar Land [Indiana] firefighter claims the city fired him unfairly for having diabetes, filing a civil rights lawsuit in a federal court.
Brandon Tingley, who joined the department in 2003, claimed his co-workers repeatedly harrassed him about his type-1 diabetes all the way through his 2005 termination. The harrassment included numerous pranks, Tingley said.
“By way of example,” Tingley said, “other firefighters would fill his locker with empty tubes of glucose and empty boxes of dextrose, his Christmas stocking in the fire house was filled with packets of Equal, his fire gear was filled with blood sugar test strips and tubes of glucose…” Source
Jo Says: This is the kind of stupidity that goes with ignorance.
Call from missing wife starts a desperate search at coast
By the time daylight climbed over Oregon’s central coast sand dunes Saturday, Dennis Pease was thoroughly freaked out.
His 38-year-old wife, Debi, who has diabetes, had phoned home late Friday night from her new job at the Three Rivers Casino in Florence complaining that her blood sugar was falling. She was disoriented, confused.
Dennis had made her promise she would call before driving home. But she didn’t. Source
Jo Says: How stupid. Any diabetic, new or old, knows to keep glucose on you at “all” times and NEVER drive if crashing. And then again, her supposedly loving husband didn’t get off his ass and go get her either. Please don’t say she didn’t have glucose because she’s at work. She works for a casino – there are drinks; therefore there are set-ups, ie: Cola. You figure it out. This should NEVER have happened.
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1Dennis Pease
wrote on 13 April 2007 at 0:07
You are an opinionated jerk if you ask me, by making comments like this when you don’t even know what you are talking about.
1. My wife and other I know like her sometimes have no idea what they are doing when they have a rapid fall in sugar levels. She literally didn’t know what she was doing.
2. I talked to her 2 hours before she got off work and she felt real bad and was trying to control her sugar then.
3. I made her promise she would call me before she left work so I would know if I should get her or not. Her employer let her go early because she felt so bad. Then they called me 20 minutes later to see if she got home OK. This was before she was to get off work, so had I known I would have been there to get her.
4. Before writing bad things about people you should know the facts. To make the comments you made shows you knew absolutely nothing about this case
If you would like to know exactly what happened you can read it on my blog. Please do your homework before you write trash about other people. Believe me, I would have “Got Off My Ass” to go get her had I known.
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Dennis Pease
2Jo
wrote on 13 April 2007 at 6:25
Me thinks someone is trying to belay themselves of guilt.
My husband would not have abandoned me like you did your wife. When we are crashing we are not able to make sound decisions and the partner, the supposed loved one, should be stepping up to the plate and helping.
My husband has been there for me when I’ve crashed and taken control when I couldn’t. He has the backbone to take control.
I would read your supposed side of the story, but because of your nastiness – I won’t bother.
Next time you want someone to see something differently, don’t come in and call them names to start off with.
3Dennis Pease
wrote on 23 April 2007 at 16:01
You sure like dishing out crap when you have no clue what you are talking about.
You accuse me of being stupid in your first sentence, but you think I don’t have a right to respond likewise.
Before you write about something you should have a clue of what you are writing about.
Your next post was the same as the first, trying to lay a guilt trip on me, again you have no clue what you are talking about.
Before you write another nasty remark, why don’t you read the blog I wrote. At least be informed. I don’t appreciate you writing garbage about me when you have no idea what you are writing about, so if I came across a little nasty you should be able to understand that.
You say your husband would take control and take care of you. How would you like it if I wrote an article about how stupid he is, or you are when I don’t know the facts.
I think you would be a little upset too.
I will check back here again. I wouldn’t continue your clueless trash talk unless you want countless blogs written about you.
4Jo
wrote on 23 April 2007 at 16:30
I have the right to my opinion, however, you do not have the right to threaten me.
Btw, I didn’t call you stupid, I said, “How Stupid”, in relation to the situation. If you want to take it as directed toward you, knock yourself out. I told you that I would read your blog, if you weren’t so nasty; and here you are again being nasty.
The world doesn’t revolve around you and I think you really need to decide why it is you are so upset because I expressed an opinion that was counter to your feelings on the situation.
So I don’t agree with how it was handled. So what? How does that change your life? Does your world crash around you and come completely undone at the foundation because “gasp” I don’t bow to your anger?
Listen — threaten me all you want. If it makes you feel better to threaten a women in another state — go for it.
I refuse to bow to you and your “wants” on my blog, that I pay for, in a free speech society. If your world is so focused on what I do on my blog that you would actually waste the time to threaten me, go for it.
I feel sorry for you that you would let yourself get so worked up over this.
Dear God,
Please help this individual understand that differences are what make us all so wonderful. Please help him get rid of his anger that appears to now be directed at me and is consumning him to the point he is now making threats.
Forgive him oh Lord, as I have already done.
Please send grace his way and give him peace.
Amen
Please read the comment policy at the top tab, and move on. I will continue to pray for you and your family.
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