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Title: Fancy dress / impersonation of staff / disability issues. Post by: grahame on August 26, 2019, 15:08:24 From The Courier (https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/angus-mearns/964702/outrage-as-disabled-dundee-man-27-told-to-remove-fancy-dress-costume-at-angus-train-event/)
Quote A Tayside family has hit out after a disabled “gentle giant” was asked to remove his fancy dress costume at a Thomas the Tank Engine event on health and safety grounds. Mum Laurie Alexander said her 27-year-old son Gareth Bell – who has a rare neurogenetic disorder called Angelman Syndrome – dressed up as a station master to attend the event at Brechin’s Caledonian Railway on Saturday. She said the family were shocked when they were told Gareth, who has a mental age of four, would have to remove his hat, jacket and tie because he was “impersonating a member of staff”. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |