A young man who applied for cash to buy his own home was blocked from getting the money he needed for not providing fingerprints to identify himself - because he has no ARMS .
The incredible case of the 25-year-old who was barred from an essential housing loan has revealed a bureaucratic failure in a system which believes signatures are not legally binding.
The prospective homeowner, Wu Jianping, lost both his arms after receiving a severe electric shock when he was five.
Although he is able to form a signature by writing with a pen held in his mouth, banks where he lives in Zhengzhou, Henan province in China, require a fingerprint to, of which he has none.
"[Fingerprinting is a common practice because signatures can be imitated, but there is no way to copy a fingerprint," one employee was reported as saying by China Daily .
Thanks to the publicity garnered by the young man's plight, some of the banks which had turned him down since November 14 have since changed their minds.
The housing management bureau of the city has also pledged to find other ways for verification of ID to prevent anyone else going through what Wu has, reports Thepaper.cn - although other parts of the world are perhaps less difficult for those with Wu's physical disability.
Being born without arms hasn't stopped American Jessica Cox in her dream - becoming the world's first armless pilot.
The inspirational 32-year-old is a pilot, who earned a Guinness World Record when she became the first woman to fly a plane with her feet.
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