29-06-2012, 03:01 PM
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Handicapped parking
The city of Ottawa is trying to find ways of stopping the misuse of handicapped parking by family and friends of those who are issued the special permits. It's a problem here too.Have you ever accosted someone who has parked in a handicapped spot, without a permit visible on the car, and who appears to be healthy enough to walk from the regular parking area? I did once - a young woman who sat in the driver's seat while her agile and healthy boyfriend jumped out and went into the bank. I suggested she move to another parking spot to free up the handicapped spot for someone who might need it. She got rude and told me to F off. I walked away.
29-06-2012, 05:42 PM
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Re: Handicapped parking
Many healthy people over here wrongly park in parking spaces reserved for the disabled (the word handicapped is frowned upon these days in the UK). My husband was entitled to a disabled parking permit for a couple of years after his illness, but didn't use it latterly as he is quite capable of walking good long distances, further than me in fact.
29-06-2012, 11:49 PM
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Re: Handicapped parking
Originally Posted by Willow
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Many healthy people over here wrongly park in parking spaces reserved for the disabled (the word handicapped is frowned upon these days in the UK). My husband was entitled to a disabled parking permit for a couple of years after his illness, but didn't use it latterly as he is quite capable of walking good long distances, further than me in fact.
Personally I would poke their eyes out with a blunt stick and then see how they get home.
30-06-2012, 09:14 AM
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Re: Handicapped parking
Originally Posted by Annie Jack
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The city of Ottawa is trying to find ways of stopping the misuse of handicapped parking by family and friends of those who are issued the special permits. It's a problem here too. Have you ever accosted someone who has parked in a handicapped spot, without a permit visible on the car, and who appears to be healthy enough to walk from the regular parking area? I did once - a young woman who sat in the driver's seat while her agile and healthy boyfriend jumped out and went into the bank. I suggested she move to another parking spot to free up the handicapped spot for someone who might need it. She got rude and told me to F off. I walked away.
30-06-2012, 12:01 PM
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Re: Handicapped parking
Parking is an issue everywhere in the United States. I think it stems from a general attitude that laws mean nothing to people anymore. For the first time in my life I knew fear driving to the beach on Memorial Day. I was driving the speed limit and felt like I was parked. Crazies were passing me at 80-90 miles per hour in double yellow line no passing zones. I swear that if I had machine guns mounted on my car they'd all be dead. At least there were police in large task forces pulling them over and giving them tickets. I'm sure those fools didn't care.It's so insane here that punks are stealing powered wheel chairs from cripples, using photos of dead military personnel to scam their relatives out of money. This week alone squatters, people illegally occupying another's home, sent eviction notices to the owner, claiming to be the bank. After the owner moved out they move in & trash the place.
We live in a crazy world where nobody is safe anywhere, anytime. Grade school kids are punching bus drivers on school busses, teens are assaulting seniors with baseball bats, teens by the dozen are swarming into businesses, stealing everything they can grab and then running away. It's all insane.
Our jails & prisons are overflowing with much worse criminals so what's the answer, build more jails? The worst offenders wear fancy cars, put on fund raising dinners at $10,000 a plate and smile a lot. They're called politicians.
30-06-2012, 12:23 PM
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Re: Handicapped parking
We are very grateful for our Blue Badge. Though hubby is not allowed to drive now, I do the driving. It enables me to park (mostly) not only close to the entrance of shops, but the width of the parking space means that our car door can open wide. We struggle when the gap between parked cars is narrow..not enough room for the wheelchair either!Yes, we have challenged people who are parked in disabled bays..who are obviously fit..one lady said quite rudely, "well I am getting a prescription and shopping for someone like you"
All good and worthwhile benefits are abused..such a sad society we live in now.
30-06-2012, 04:13 PM
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Me and OH have blue badges what a godsend. I have arthritis in my spine so can't walk far without pain. OH has rheumatoid and his hips are getting really bad. So being able to park on double yellows has been a great help to us when we go into the city. Obviously park in a responsible way not obstructing any other motorist or private gateway.Our Asda store is very good they have a parking attendant patrolling and once we forgot to display our blue badge and was issued with a penalty notice. I wrote to the issuers and explained it was a genuine mistake on my part and they waived the fee. But even with a parking attendant they still have the problem of people using disabled parking that do not have a blue badge, but at least they get a shock when they come back to a ticket!!!
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