# PlanetFitness has a 'philosophy' that is ignorant and potentially dangerous

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planetfitness-has-a-philosophy-that-is-ignorant-and-potentially-dangerous/621456 "2012-05-10T01:28:43Z")
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### Author: ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planetfitness-has-a-philosophy-that-is-ignorant-and-potentially-dangerous/621456/301 "2012-05-15T06:40:29Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> LOL. Wrong. There were several older members at HHFC but as far as wheelchair users-vet or otherwise-I was the only regular member there. I saw a handful of other wheelchair users come and go in my ten years there but no one ever lasted too long. And do you wonder why???

Well sorry to offend you, I just remembered you describing that gym catering to the disabled in one of the threads about you getting kicked out of that gym, I obviously didn’t remember all the details of what you said. Looking at that thread, you did say:

> [@A real-life handicap-parking story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-life-handicap-parking-story/586524/22):
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> this place, especially, was one that catered to an older, disabled population

You did later qualify it by saying that they only paid lip service to that idea, but can you really blame me for thinking that disabled people in your city might frequent a gym that catered to the disabled?  
Incidentally, rereading that thread, I had forgotten what I said about Planet Fitness’s reaction to your parking lot vigilantism:

> [@A real-life handicap-parking story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-life-handicap-parking-story/586524/308):
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> While you are still a new member I can see them giving you the benefit of the doubt and trying to help you out in the interest of good customer service. After a while some customers prove themselves to be magnets for confrontation, and when their hijinks and complaints become more trouble than the cost of their business is worth, they’ll get kicked to the curb. Give it a while and it might happen again at the new place if you insist on creating problems.

Guess I hit that nail on the head, huh?

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