SpazzYou just can't make this stuff up. An American wheelchair manufacturer is now offering 'The Spazz'...

Colours 'N Motion "Spazz" offers you the style, versatility and adjustability you need in your first wheelchair. With its simple design and clean lines not only will you look good in your "Spazz" but your maneuverability will be unsurpassed.

Naturally, elsewhere in the world, where you might call someone a 'spaz' as an insult, people have been getting up in arms. From the UK's Daily Mirror...

CAMPAIGNERS for the disabled are outraged over a new wheelchair called the Spazz.

In a marketing blunder, the US makers did not appear to realise how offensive the outdated term for "spastic" is in Britain.

The £830 mobility device is advertised showing a model dressed in black PVC with the catchphrase, "You know you want it."

It even has the word "Spazz" splashed across the frame of the product.

Angry disability groups are demanding the name be changed.

Margie Woodward, spokesman for Scope, said "The term spazz is derogatory."

You know you want it.

[via A Welsh View, via J-Walk]
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