I'm sure your health problems are real. However, there are MANY right now on Social Security Disability who claim similar problems. The reality is --- they'eve exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment and have nowhere to go but this route...
Posted on 05/01/2013 6:13:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The disabled person’s name should be on the handicapped tag as well as an expiration date.
I have seen dates recently from 2005. I have also seen people with NO tags parking in these spaces. Where is the $200-$500 penalty for these people?
When at Walmart in Iron Mountain, MI the disabled parking spots are filled up with get this Walmart Employees. When at Walmart in Marquette, MI the disabled parking spots are filled by Northern Michigan University students whom park cars there and have a number of students get in one vehicle and go park on campus parking.
being in a wheelchair I generally park my vehicle away from others and get out of the vehicle and roll the wheelchair to the store. I have had two disabled equipped vans stolen because of the lift and so forth in it. Now that pisses me off, as the insurance company will drop me if it happens again.
Not every question is an attack. Sometimes it’s just a question. But when you are a martyr, any cross will do.
Family members borrow the cars with the HC stickers.
I one case I know a wife of a doctor uses the HC spot in front of the health and fitness club (Gym) then spends an hour running on the machine inside. I would love to video her and post it on youtube.
Police here only do the easy route, write $180 fine tickets for those without the stickers.
Thank GHWB and Martha and Bob Dole for this too.
I see this too, nearly everyone who uses a handicapped space is using no walker, no wheelchair, not even a cane.
I am in a shopping center parking lot nearly every day picking up friends without wheels (or licenses). So lots of time is spent sitting there watching the passing parade. (Boomer reference!)
Meanwhile I can just about walk myself, most days, due to an injured spine, and I’m always grabbing the nearest cart to lean on, when I have to go into a supermarket. Yet I don’t have a handicapped sticker.
The populace (you can’t call them citizenry any longer) are accustomed to having their noses wiped for them. This won’t change except to get worse over time. Liberty? Who needs it! Wipe me!
Your politicians at work.
You know sometimes, people who have handicap stickers, have them for a reason. Sometimes it is not a visible illness and sometimes people are just jealous over the most inane things.
Maybe you should just be glad that you are healthy enough to walk that extra 50 feet to the entrance.
I have a handicapped parking placard that I can hang from my rearview mirror. It is temporary, but I have renewed for over a year while I deal with an auto-immune muscle disease. I rarely actually park in the handicapped spaces unless I am having a bad day, or if the distance is too far. But if I do use it, most people would not think I had a disability (I do walk a little funny up inclines, but otherwise just a little slow.)
I have learned to hold my tongue and thoughts when I see others using the spaces, but I do think there may be too many of them.
OK, so this mostly about fraud.
I do want to comment about these spaces. It angers me to no end that more and more spaces for handicapped (and Eco cars, and pregnant women, and etc.) are made but THEY ARE NOT USED! So I’m forced to park very far because God help me I take the hallowed empty space.
Here’s another thing. Not all you see “healthy” at those spots really are. Some have troubles that are internal, others have problems that don’t appear that much but often are. My mother now has a temp pass. She has had excruciating nerve pain in her thigh some 15 years now, only the last 5 or so did she get the pass. My father likewise has problems sometimes with his leg because of the blood clots in them, particularly AFTER walking through a big mall or so. They sometimes have good days, but often just a bit of walking hurts them. Again, most of the time these spaces are unused, irritatingly vacant. I don’t have a problem with someone using it for a change even if their ailment seems hidden.
To boot, I have MANY chronic body problems, worst my hip problems, and somewhat my fasciitis. You can’t see it but it’s there. My sister, RIP, had cancer but she was such an A personality that you would not know it, except maybe when she was bald. She never had a pass in her 3 years. Sometimes if we were with our parents we were grateful to borrow it (stage IV she had more exhaustion) if not feeling well.
The local fat liberal was just bragging about having a handicapped tag to hang on the mirror to use occasionally to get that handy spot when no others are available, in a hurry, etc.
My father had emphysema, and to all appearances he was perfectly healthy but he struggled to walk a long distance. He still refused to get a handicapped sticker because he said there were people in worse shape than him who needed them. He would just stop to catch his breath a time or two while walking to the store.
He irony is that fat is often the CAUSE of the joint problems and so on, so the fat person gets a pass. Believe me, I know, I know grossly obese people who have had surgeries for knees and so on, problems which are after the fat. I’m thinking, why not get the major liposuction and see if the problems go away?
I call them the segregated parking spots since 99% of those using them are old white people.
Not in my observations they’re not.
liberals are “special” people who have that special intellectual and moral superiority to judge exactly when they should break the rules and when they should apply the rules.
Well said republicangel. With an autistic son whos 'thing' was to take off running and crawl under a vehicle to hide, I don't feel the least bit guilty in the use of a handicap parking space.
As for those who would criticize me and say that we don't look disabled, my response to them is that they don't look stupid!
Parking for the morally handicapped.
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