You laugh, but I’ve seen that. They miraculously get better once they’re inside the store.
Especially bad, since my mother, who has severe debilitating arthritis and who uses a motorised wheelchair when they go out, actually needs these parking spaces.
Dollars to doughnuts there is an Obama sticker on that car.
“Mercedes in a handicapped space outside BJ’s Wholesale Club”?
What, her Rolls was in the shop and the Salvation Army Store was closed?
I beat a Handicapped parking ticket years ago. The spot wasn’t signed properly, located properly, lined properly and lacked permits. I even got help from the state DOT. It can be a matter of simple dogged research and a calm and assertive stance backed with the facts before a district judge.
Meh.
My wife has a genetic dissorder. She is able to work but she has already had both hips replaced and will need her knees and elbows done eventually. We don’t bother with a handicapped permit -too much hassle to get one. We just walk farther. Our choice.
Now, where you live may be different, but here in north texas the innane city and state regulations have created a situation where in some strip malls literally 1/5 of the parking is handicapped parking. Sometimes those are the only spots left.
I will have to see the parking lot in question before I will be willing to consider taking the municipality’s side on this one. I have seen too much local government stupidity and corruption. Point is I dont see that the woman is neccesarily as wrong as the city government is often wrong.
Maybe she had a handicap Hair-do.../s
I hope they throw the book at this woman. What a jerk. This woman should be made to perform some community service just because her attitude reeks so bad.
As someone whose WWII veteran father has a tag for and needs handicapped parking, I hope this dirtbag woman is cited for contempt as well as her fine.
Having a handicapped plate or hang-tag has become a status symbol. “Look at me I’m important.”
Most don’t need them and many are just fat and lazy.
The symbol is of someone in a wheelchair, if you don’t need one you shouldn’t be parking there.
20 years ago, we didn’t have “handicapped” parking spots. Now, government uses them to make money. There are proportionately way more handicapped spots than there are handicapped drivers. If there is one handicapped driver per 1,000, then there should be 1 handicapped spot per 1,000 parking spots.
The article needs a subtitle: A Tale of An Obama Voter.
Fine—drop the fine for parking in the handicapped spot, and fine her $1000 for being a thoughtless lazy beyotch.
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.
Leave the poor lady along, she may have friends working for AIG and therefor is above conservative criticism. Sac off
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.
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.