No.. I don’t believe you are being insensitive especially if they have taken all the spaces. Personally, I would tap on their window and ask them to move since you have a handicap tag/sticker. If they refuse, nicely notify them you are notifying the police with their tag number. Perhaps the school administration can assist you with this. Sometimes people will “listen” to a school official vs another parent.
That being said, handicap stickers/tags have evolved into something it wasn’t intended for. For example, I know a fella (who is a lifeguard) that parks in handicap spaces all the time. He does have the placard you hang off your interior mirror. Why does he have it? Because he drives his handicapped Father once a month to a doctor. I will admit to parking in a handicap space once. I know.. shame, shame. However, my lower disc was bulging and I had great difficult walking (when this happens, I have to literally drag my left leg). I stopped at the store for some medications. Was it right? Probably not.
New in SC. Your drivers license pic is now on the handicap tag. If THAT person isn’t in the car when the tag is used, then the person is fined.
At our Wal-Mart ( which I try & frequent as infrequently as possible) all of the parking spaces for the disabled are taken up by people who are not disabled, they just have a giant, fat *ss, and other parts & are too lazy to walk.
I think that people who park in handicapped spaces & are not handicapped are truly despicable.
They're grossly abused, no doubt about it.
My dumbass BIL has one that he uses for convenience. He and I were heading to a shooting range one day so we pulled into a WalMart to get some clays. The jerk promptly pulled into a handicapped spot then pulled out the handicapped tag and hung it on the mirror. I was embarrassed to walk into the store with him...
Maybe God got even with him because he has to use it now since he had a knee replacement a month ago and developed complications........
By the letter of the law here in Kalifornia, the placard is supposed to be accompanied by a form which states the name of the handicapped person. If that person isn't in the car and the driver uses a spot, he's at risk of getting snagged.
When I was a kid, I parked in a handicapped spot at the local town hall. I think that every guy at the fire station nearby was headed towards me...and they weren't coming over to discuss baseball.
Then, my Mom (who had just had knee surgery) got out of the passenger side, figured out her crutches, and slowly hobbled in. Problem solved. :-)
Perfectly "abled" people who park in handicapped spaces are a real pet peeve of mine. Even more so are the idiots (and it seems like there are a lot of them in the area where I live...I'd not noticed it, really, until I moved to the Southeast) who park in Fire Lanes at the mall, grocery store, etc. It's nothing but sheer laziness, screws the traffic patterns up, and could really mess things up in the event of an emergency.
IMHO, Handicapped spots are for people who *need* them. Too bad that we live in a society where a card is needed for use, and the simple act of having a card proves the need. I'd not feel too guilty about your one "incident", if I were you. :-)
My SIL used her MIL’s placard while borrowing MIL’s car for months. She then bought the car from the estate when the MIL died and is STILL using the placard. She’s really fat, but she ain’t handicapped, and she justified it to me (without my even point it out - guilty much?) by saying that when she bought the car, she bought the sticker, too.
Some folks just have a worldly, get-mine mindset.