Posted on 06/14/2010 5:59:58 AM PDT by Dayman
DANVERS A Lynnfield woman who was slapped with a $300 ticket for parking her Mercedes in a handicapped space outside BJ's Wholesale Club last March is taking the town of Danvers to court.
In her complaint, Eberle called her use of a handicapped spot "unavoidable," then cited "physical disability and weather conditions."
It was raining that day.
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Thank you. As expected, you have a much more ethical character than do my Obama-voter in-laws who see a Handicapped license plate as carte blanche.
The symbol is of someone in a wheelchair, if you dont need one you shouldnt be parking there.
Excuse me..but my father suffered from polio at the young age of 3, and has a limp and other problems from that. He has not let himself be put in a wheelchair..he does EVERYTHING he can to remain walking..but he does park in handicap spots, because distance is tough for him. Watch what you say before you lump everyone into one category..not fair.
Thank you, not just for knowing this but writing it for those who may not realize or understand. I have been disabled for more than twenty years, I can no longer drive myself anywhere, but when I did, yes indeedy, there were good days and bad days. The good ones I chose to leave the designated spot available for someone else who needed those few feet more than I did, hoping that the same would occur for me the days when really, not having to walk, tote the packages those extra steps made the all the difference.
I do understand the criticism, fairness, parity, "Why should they get ...?" and the like. I have never considered the spaces *my right* or such; I can only tell you that I would give up the special privilege in a heartbeat if I could only have full use of my legs, the strength returned to my spinal cord again. I'd much rather the chore of walking through the parking lot than the lot I'm stuck with.
Thanks again.
Fine—drop the fine for parking in the handicapped spot, and fine her $1000 for being a thoughtless lazy beyotch.
There are only so many spots, sometimes you get to the lot and all the designated spaces are taken (not always by a placard/tagged vehicle) and so the only space we can use is an unmarked one. Would you rather we parked across the street in another lot?
Holy Crapazola!
I am all for handicap parking spaces. I thought the handicap parking space sign in front of an Army PX that read "If you aren't handicapped when you park here, you will be when you leave" was the coolest thing ever! Government mandates are a different thing entirely. Governments do stupid things and she may have a point if the spaces allotted for handicapped parking far exceeds demand.
Between the handicapped spaces (no problem there), expectant mothers’ spaces (pushing it) and employee of the month spaces (ridiculous), I don’t even bother trying to get close.
OH COME ON! It was obviously a joke! Now what really want to see is some getting towed for parking their rear in a handicapped toilet stall without a decal!
It could be that although the person to whom the car is registered is handicapped, the person driving the car at the time is not (spouse, son, daughter, etc.) in which case they do not qualify to use a handicapped spot.
Leave the poor lady along, she may have friends working for AIG and therefor is above conservative criticism. Sac off
Most dont need them and many are just fat and lazy.
The symbol is of someone in a wheelchair, if you dont need one you shouldnt be parking there.
Prejudice, bigotry born of total ignorance. You wouldn't be spouting this garbage if you've ever had to recover from a nearly fatal illness, and could walk for no more than 50 yards without having to rest... if you'd spent the better part of 3 months in hospital, and half of that in a coma and on a ventilator, you might begin to understand.
That's my beef. It's not that the spots exist, but they exist in quantities that FAR outnumber the proportion of handicapped drivers that exist. It probably varies from state to state. Ohio was really bad with them, Tennessee not quite as bad. Countless times, I've seen 3 or 4 cars with the handicapped stickers parked in the spots while the other 20 or 30 spots sat empty.
Then we get Florida where it seems that 50% of the drivers have the blue handicapped placard hanging from their mirror.
No one gets upset. It was a "equality under the law"-type joke.
"I can't park in your space and you can't park in mine!" Just a joke!
I have a gripe about the handicap parking...years ago when handicap parking was first established, there was a shopping area in my town that took the entire side of a building and made it into handicap spots - probably 15 spots. Why they did this, I don’t know. When I went there to park and shop, every spot was taken - EXCEPT for the handicap spots. The first couple were always taken and the rest would sit vacant. This happended all the time there. Complaints did no good. I finally stopped shopping there. I used to run into this problem a lot, not just this particular shopping area. I think sometimes businesses can to over do it with the handicap spots.
The symbol is of someone in a wheelchair, if you dont need one you shouldnt be parking there.
I met someone just like you in the parking lot of the post office about fifteen years ago, he made a snarky complaint as I was getting out of my car, the front space right at the door, the fact that I could drive and was able to walk allowed him to assume an make an incredibly insulting remark. My answer to him was to pull my hair over the side of my head and show him the two enormous scars from brain surgery, gave him a good look at the third one that starts at the center of the back of my skull, it goes all the way down to the small of my back, he didn't get to see that part; I will refrain from repeating the reply he got.
Not every disability requires a wheelchair.
And some people demonstrate their paralysis is from the neck up.
I always use the handicapped stall if it's vacant. Everything is more conveniently sized. They should all be like that.
If it had been a Toyota instead of a Mercedes do you think the reporter would have mentioned it? All other issues about Handicapped parking aside, this story is a class warfare piece at its heart.
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