disabled parking

[tradey]

ive just come back from shopping with my brother he has a disabled badge as he has ms and finds it hard to work very far,well we couldnt find a space anywhere,i got out and went looking round,you know what a woman with her two kids went into one ,she had no badge on her car,so i went up to her and said,do you know these spaces are for the disabled,she said yep i know but im not going to be long,well that did it for me,i said my brother has been driving round for 20mins looking for a space and he needs this more than you do,are you going to move the car,she said no you park somewhere else,im not really a nasty person but she was being cheeky infront of her kids so i said if you dont move your car ill move it myself.she just walked away laughing into the shop, i waited 10mins she never came out so i and a passer by who was a very nice man we pushed her car out of the way and we parked there ourselves,my brother went into the shops i waited incase she came back,my bro was back before her,he got in and we drove off, as we were driving away we saw a warden going up to the car,i hope the stupid selfish cow got a ticket,some people are so cruel

[Chappers]

I hope she got a ticket too!!

[Kay]

Nice one tradey,Some people can be so selfish and uncaring,yeh I hope she got a ticket as well.

[dotty.]

you havn't been clear about your question, however, if the carpark was manned by a parking warden the woman should have been dealt with by them, you have committed an offence I am sure by moving her car, you may well have caused damage to it, or could be implicated in the event of any damage being declared. If the car park is covered by CCTV the woman may have made a complaint against you and the number of your vehicle may have been given to the police. Two wrongs never make a right and any situation like this can leave a person open to all sorts of criticism and potential legal action. I would never presume I had the right over a car parking space, life is just not worth the hassle, I would move on and wait patiently, in the time it took u to commandeer the passer by, who must have been incredibly gullible to offer to participate, another space should have come up, disabled or not.

[tradey]

thankyou i thought i may have gone abit too far,i feel abit guilty now,but i know it was the right thing to do,she didnt give a s**t

[andrea_h]

Hi,

I do agree that she shouldn't have parked there - but unfortunately disabled spaces in private car parks are not legally enforceable as they are the property of the store/mall/whatever - disabled badges only mean anything on public roads.

A xXx

[tradey]

no i checked that before i did it, im not that stupid,there wasnt anyone about to help me out when we were there, it was only when we were going out that i saw the lady warden

[Kay]

Dont feel guily trady, the woman had no right to be there and in the absence of a traffic warden I think you did the right thing. I assume there was no traffic warden at the time? Lets hope it teaches the selfish bitch a lesson,disabled spaces are for the disabled and people should respect that.

[kazza12345]

sorry but how the hell did 2 people manage to move a car? Did you just pick it up??? I agree with your sentiments, being a disabled driver myself, but i don't believe you are telling the truth that you just managed to roll her car out of the way, and if you did, i kind of hope she does find cctv and track you down! Because 2 wrongs don't make a right, as my mother would say!

[Kay]

OOps just read that a warden was approaching. Lets hope she/he handed that woman a ticket,she was afterall breaking the law.

[andrea_h]

Regardless of who was right, the woman was very selfish and set a really bad example in front of her kids - and I hope she got a ticket too!!

A xXx

[tradey]

thankyou kay,i thought disabled spaces WERE for the disabled but i must be wrong then as dotty thinks we should have just found a space even if it wasnt in the disabled place were my brother should have been able to park in the first place,ok something my come of this but to be truthfull i dont care i feel my brother had the right to park there and not this woman,who didnt need it,im still fuming over this.

[kazza12345]

i understand your sentiments entirely, but as i say, i cant see how you could possibly have moved someones presumably locked car?
How did you do it?

[tradey]

sorry kazza12345 but this is true,i wouldnt lie about this at all.it reqally happend

[dotty.]

tradey if all the disabled spaces were taken up by disabled badge holders when u arrived, you would have had to park elsewhere anyway, and if the woman had already gone into the shopu would not have bothered checking if she had displayed a valid badge, maybe there are other issues beyond this that made you behave irrationally, it seems an extreme thing to do, for one thing, noone could ever move my car when parked as it is an automatic, has a steering lock and would also have a kruk-lock on the steering wheel,

[laurence2]

I would of shopped her, even if it would of meant parking in front/behind her so she could'nt get out, then waited for the warden to come.

I,ve got no time for people like her, Well done and good on you

[wonderwoman1]

hi tradey, i have many customers who require a disabled space...unfortunately edinburgh ****** council decided upon themselves to remove all but one!! we were informed if the customer held a disabled badge they could just park at the front of the shop...however last week a warden gave one of my customers a ticket for doing just that!! i think it should be the case that for disabled people they should be able to park wherever, if i was you i would have done the same thing!!! what a cow!!!

[kazza12345]

btw i dont think dotty was disputing the fact that disabled spaces are for the use of disabled people ... just that if you were in say, sainsburys car park, a traffic warden has no juristriction over the use of the spaces, whereas if you were on a public road they do and can give tickets for this offence

[wonderwoman1]

sorrt that word was sh1tty

[kazza12345]

but how did you do it then?

[wonderwoman1]

oh ffs, hangover is kicking in!!!!! sorry the starred out word was meant to say sh1tty!!!!

going for a lie down!!