# Slipped under the radar?? \[About me getting kicked out of gym\]

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 24, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipped-under-the-radar-about-me-getting-kicked-out-of-gym/593872 "2011-08-24T05:16:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slipped-under-the-radar-about-me-getting-kicked-out-of-gym/593872/129 "2011-08-27T03:59:28Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Here’s their mission statement "The Hurley Health and Fitness Center provides comprehensive programming, education and fitness in a professional, medically based, high quality, and service oriented facility to allow members the opportunity to achieve their maximum potential in the areas of health, fitness and well-being. "  
> It doesn’t say anything about helping disabled people or people from all walks of life or the less fortunate or providing a wide range of equipment or being handicapped accessible or anything like that.
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> I suppose what it comes down to is that you don’t seem to be wrapping your head around the fact that they simply aren’t going to run out and buy a piece of equipment because you want it. They have the right to say no. It’s not personal, it business. I assure you, if they felt they could make more money (ROI) on it, they’d bring it in. So you go to a new club that does have the equipment that you want, and when you decide you want a PowerFit 3000 and they don’t get it for you are you going to start all over with this?

Mission statement or no, if you knew _ **anything** _ about Hurley, Flint and Hurley Health and Fitness Center personally, you would understand my point a little clearer. They serve the needs of the disabled; as long as those needs are convenient and don’t require any sort of action or accomodation of any kind (obvious sarcasm). And _ **again** _, it’s not about what I personally want to have for my individual workouts. It’s the fact that no wheelchair-bound individual can get a proper fitness training session here.

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