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Disabled Parking
Why is it that people insist on parking in 'disabled' (is that P.C?) parking spaces in car parks without any disks/badges and no obvious signs of any disability???
If you are one of these people, please let everyone else know why!!!! I don't have a disability but do find it very inconsiderate.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I have done it before because there was no where else to park. I've given up seat on buses and trains for disabled people before.
I don't really think they mind that much, my Grandad's disabled and he say's that when you can't really do much for yourself there's not a lot of difference in walking six foot or sixty foot so where you park makes no difference at all.
My uncle has a disabled badge and he gets very funny looks when he parks his car in a disabled bay,hes quite active and to look at him you would think he dosent need a blue badge,but he had a heart transplant 4 yrs ago.so he is fully intitled to it,just because you dont see the disability of people dosent mean they are not disabled.
They are usually of a type. Here in Manchester the posh shopping street is called King Street (cant move for footballers wives) If you stand for long enough you can be sure before long a Porshe or Range Rover will pull up - some young lad will jump out- stick a blue badge in the window and do some shopping. I have even collared a traffic warden in the past and asked them to do something but there is little they can do.
Lazy, selfish vermin if you ask me.
Supermarket carparks aswell - these poor things who cant walk 25 yards as apposed to 20 yards so deprive a disabled person a space.
Its really small thing and in the bigger scheme of things quite trivial but to me it just typifies the lack of respect that seems to prevail in this country.
In April of 2000 I went with my wife and mother-in-law to Milton Keynes shopping centre. All the disabled parking bays were full and we spent around 30 minutes trying to find a parking space. My mother in law died two days later.
1/2 hour wasted with only 48 to live - makes a big difference to some people.
Still chimney - seeing as your grandad said it's okay, it must be so.
I have multiple diabilities/handicaps [not all of which are obvious] and do have a blue badge, but it's not worth having another angina attack by getting involved in a fight over a parking space.
As an aside, I heard that the use of the word "handicapped" was now non-PC and had to be replaced with "disabled". Personally I prefer to say I have a handicap.....what say others?
He also stopped parking there as well.
The way to tell is that bona fida disabled car users pay less road tax - so check on their tax disc to see how much they qualify for a blue badge.
ianess - i suggest you print some up yourself (i'm tempted myself sometimes) and stick away with impunity.
I don't know about Blue badges, but with regard the old orange badges:
The fact that someone doesn't appear to have a disability is ridiculous. My aforementioned motherinlaw was in her 70s and couldn't drive. I (and other members of the family) used the disabled badge when picking her up / dropping off etc. This means that I could park in town centre, walk to find where she and my wife was and then walk them back to my car. If someone saw me walking out of my car, they may assume (correctly) that I wasn't disabled. I was still allowed to use the badge though.
You can't judge somebodies entitlement to a badge on whether they look healthy or not. They don't necessarily pay less road tax either.
However, and I'm probably going to get flack for saying this but from my perspective having worked in the trade (parking) a lot of disabled people seem to think they own the road and can park anywhere they want because they have a blue badge.
Being an inconsiderate driver works both ways.
Sorry if i caused offence or upset to anyone with my reply, I didn't really think it through as I don't think about the issue much.
I can see now that my views were stupid and my grandad isn't the only disabled person in the world.
I will think of others now before I make a comment like that. Or better still, not make a comment like that at all
Sorry again
Well I have apologised to chimney elsewhere and I think this shows that we can have a heated debate (well you would with a chimney haha) , think things through and sometimes I have been made to think about my own answers at times. So thank you for taking the time to say what you have chimney, much appreciated.