Posted on 10/09/2015 9:48:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker
In a common parking lot, you will come across many types of parking jerks. There's the person who takes up two spaces, the person who parks on a diagonal, and the person who parks so close to your vehicle you have to enter your car through the passenger's side. However, the biggest jerk of all is the person who completely disregards the handicapped parking spot sign and steals the spot from someone who actually needs to use it. Usually no one does anything about it, and it's becoming a huge problem. In Russia, the problem is so bad that over 30% of all drivers take handicapped spots — and it needs to stop! In order to combat this growing issue, a nonprofit organization called Dislife.ru has come up with a creative way to stop spot stealers in their tracks. As many of these people choose to ignore the flat sign, Dislife has created a 3D projection that pops up if someone tries to park in the spot without a handicapped sticker.
This is such a cool idea — I love that the hologram draws attention to the bad behaviors of the spot stealer. This is something we need everywhere!
The way to stop handicapped parking spot abusers. . .
Maybe we need holograms of the Heavenly Father & St. Peter at exit doors of stores that are heavily pilfered.
As George Carlin said, “I love handicapped people. If it weren’t for handicapped people, I never would find a parking spot.”
Try that here and listen to the howls of profiling, or whatever.......................
Agree Cherry...
My mom has one and needs it yet when I take her to he doctor or to shop she gets angry that I won’t use those spaces with her tag that hangs from the mirror. I take her to the door and go park in a regular spot. When her task is completed I take her back to the door and go get the car and pick her up..... I see way to many folks that may look healthy but have serious issues none the less. Doom on em that are healthy and deprive those that benefit from the shorter distance to walk.
As well..... those that go walk two miles of shopping down every isle in the big box stores or mall after parking 30 yards closer to the door in a handicap space with a proper tag..... sad.
Googled АВИА ПАРК Москва
That appears to be a multistory saltwater aquarium. Wow.
I, like you, look healthy. I'm a big strapping man, but I wore a Milwaukee Brace all the way through high school due to scoliosis. I'm 67 now and I've been in pain since I was eight years old.
I now have bone-on-bone contact between every vertebrae in my spine, yet I will not take any narcotics to alleviate the discomfort or the pain, nor for the phantom pains caused by the nerves being impinged on.
Now, add to that in the course of my life, I've been rear-ended TEN TIMES, every time while I was stuck in traffic, not moving, hit by idiots not paying attention to their driving—the last time just seven months ago!
Were my back straight the doctors tell me I'd be 6'4", but I start the day slightly under six feet tall and by the end at night, wind up at 5'9” because of the collapse of my spine. On a good day, I don't need the handicap space and will leave it open for someone worse off than me, but if the weather changes—I'm a great barometer—I need the closest parking I can find!
I call the cops. It’s a $250 ticket in my small town. They love to get the money! Several months ago I went to a Golden Corral. I have shot knees but don’t have a “Handicapped” plate Two brand new, minority owned Caddy Escalades pulled up to the reserved spots and disgorged about 10 kids. I called the cops. They came. $500 dollars worth of tickets! Bwaaaa!
“As George Carlin said,...”
I believe it was George that posed the question as to why there are braille numbers on the drive-up ATM’s
I watched a guy key the entire length of an Escalade parked illegally in a handicapped space.
I gave him a thumbs up.
Most people that I see in the wheelie spots are either obese (and therefore need the exercise) or are borrowing some else’s tag. It would be nice to see a crackdown on them.
“choose to ignore the flat sign”
I don’t know how it works in Russia, but in the DC area, spaces require BOTH the pavement marking and a sign. I have seen one or two spaces with markings only.
When I see “flat sign”, it makes me think they only have the pavement marking.
I am tall enough so that I can see over the hood, but plenty of folks are not. I see plenty of “driverless” cars where you can see someone driving when you’re looking from the car behind them.
There’s no way such a person would see the marking on the floor as they pull into a space.
So the problem in Russia may be the absence of signs in addition to the markings. Don’t know. Keep in mind, snow will cover a pavement marking.
Make some paper signs to put on the offending car-
“You are parked in a handicapped spot and have no sticker, you must be a liberal. No conservative would do this.”
As you should be. As bad as we think we might have it in this life, there is always someone who has it worse.
At one supermarket there are handicapped spots and non handicapped spots equal distance from the entrance. It burns me up when the handicapped park in the spaces for non handicapped when there are several handicapped spots open. Why not the reverse punishment for them when this occurs?
If a non-handicapped person is driving a car with a handicap sticker, they're not supposed to park in the handicap spots.
I know what you mean. Between hubby and me he has had 2 hips replaced, a knee and just started chemo so he is weak. He just got a permanent handicap sticker. I’ve had one knee replaced and am in pretty good shape but too many errands and stops and I am pooped for the rest of the day. I won’t use his sticker when I go out but his has come in handy already for him. Other than walking slow he does not look disabled.
My Mom has a handicap plate on her car, and I drive it when I run errands for her, so it gets the batter charged, the fluids circulated, and a fresh tank of gas once in a while. If I don't it can sit for weeks, and that's not good for them. Never park it in a handicap slot, though.
One of my uncles had polio when he was 2. Right leg 1 1/2” shorter than his left, the calf about the size of my biceps. At least a dozen surgeries, I’m not sure how long in an iron lung, enough metal in his right leg to built a radio.
I’ve watched him refuse to get a handicapped sticker or plates for many years, even when I had to help him get in the store, half carrying him sometimes. He finally had the leg amputated just below the knee and walks on an artificial leg now. Still refuses to get a handicapped sticker. He says as long as he can still walk someone who needs it can have the handicapped spot.
I did carpenter work with him for several years. I’ve seen him climb on ladders every day, walk on the roof every day doing several roofing jobs, crawl around on his knees doing floors. And I’ve seen him do it with blisters on his stump the size of a quarter...
And I’ve seen people half his age (He’s about 65 now) who won’t do most of the jobs we did and won’t do them half as well if they do. And I don’t like it when I see them in a handicapped space without a sticker...
My right foot is a size and a half smaller than my left and the theory is that I had a mild case of polio when I was about two as well. . . That threw off my back development. The time frame is right and I had a long term fever at that age the doctor attributed to a "milk allergy". They started adding a ¾" lift in my right shoe when I was about 10, because they decided my right leg was shorter than my left. . . but the problem was actually in my back. Not once from age eight to 14 did any doctor look at my back. By the time someone finally did, the double curvature was too set in to do much about except to arrest it going any farther with the Milwaukee Brace, a cage of leather and aluminum extending from my hips to chin—a medieval torture rack— which had to wear twenty-three hours a day.
I resisted getting that placard as long as I could. . .
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