Bally Terminates Membership to Disabled Person
advertisement
Interact With Us
Best of 2011
Top Stories of 2011
The most popular stories of 2011. Did your favorites make our list?
Resource Center
Buyers Guide
Find industry businesses by product or service categories, view company profiles and more.
Club Industry Trade Show
Club Industry Show and Conference, held each October, is the premier event for fitness and wellness professionals. Find out more about Exhibitors, Events, and Education.
Industry Events & Trade Shows
The industry-wide calendar features listings for educational events, trade shows and more.
Classifieds
View classified ads for health club equipment and services, plus business opportunities and job postings.
Current Issue
Read stories from the latest print issue of Club Industry magazine.
Club info and News
Read news about some of the biggest names in the industry.
- 24 Hour Fitness
- Anytime Fitness
- Bally Total Fitness
- Crunch Fitness
- Club One
- Curves
- Equinox
- Gold's Gym
- Health Fitness Corp.
- LA Fitness
- Life Time Fitness
- Lifestyle Family Fitness
- Planet Fitness
- Plus One Management
- Powerhouse Gyms
- Snap Fitness
- Spectrum Athletic Clubs
- Sport & Health
- Town Sports International
- Sports Club Co.
- Urban Active
- Wellbridge
- Western Athletic Clubs
- World Gym
E-Newsletter Signup
Breaking news on the industry, people on the move, mergers and acquisitions and much more. Delivered weekly.
CHICAGO -- A Bally Total Fitness membership that had been signed by a developmentally disabled person in Indianapolis has been terminated, a Bally public relations official said today.
The family of Mark Hannon told Indianapolis TV station WRTV that two men representing a local Bally club went to the apartment of Hannon, whom the family says is developmentally disabled, and offered him a membership, even though the apartment complex in which Hannon lives has a policy against solicitation. The two men also allegedly drove Hannon to the club to sign the contract, which the family claims Hannon could not understand.
Hannon, 49, paid $69.98 for the first and last month of the contract—in addition to a services fee—and agreed to have $29.99 withdrawn from his bank account every month, according to the TV station.
“They knew he was developmentally challenged, and it did not bother them one bit,” Joe Hannon, Mark’s brother, told the TV station.
The Bally official could not confirm the details of the transaction.Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.
Acceptable Use Policy blog comments powered by Disqus