Monday, April 04, 2005

Beauty queen stripped of her crown

This is too funny. Why was she stripped of her title you ask? She stood up.

APPLETON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been stripped of her title because pageant officials say she can stand -- and point to a newspaper picture as proof.

Janeal Lee, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a scooter, was snapped by The Post-Crescent newspaper standing among her high school math students.

"I've been made to feel as if I can't represent the disabled citizens of Wisconsin because I'm not disabled enough," Lee said Thursday.
I suppose even the disabled pageant people have to have standards, but that's funny. She raises a good question though; how disabled does she have to be?

(hat tip to Ryanne for the link)