CCSO
Name: Stephens, Leslie Marie
Charge: FRAUD DISPLAY HANDICAP PARKING PERMIT OF ANOTHER
Residence: Naples
Age: 38
Occupation: None given
Next they’ll be telling me welfare moms are seen everywhere carryng Gucci bags.
How does one even get these handicapped tags?
I tore my achilles tendon and could barely hobble around for close to 2 years, bad limp for another 3 years and now I’m OK. I couldn’t get one, even when I could barely walk.
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“A 73-year-old woman has her placard confiscated by the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office because a relative had been ticketed for using it illegally. The same woman gets a new placard — and, again, somebody other than herself is illegally spotted using it, this time in September. “
If this woman or others like her are riding in the car of someone else they are allowed to take that sticker and use it then!!!! I have a friends who had open heart surgery. Sometimes she rides in the car with me and she takes her sticker with her and put it on my car so she does not have to walk all the way across creation to get in the store. As long as she is with me if the cops ask questions then nothing is said. It is her sticker and I was giving her a ride.
Just saying don’t always jump to conclusions on this matter.
CCSO
Name: Stephens, Leslie Marie
Charge: FRAUD DISPLAY HANDICAP PARKING PERMIT OF ANOTHER
Residence: Naples
Age: 38
Occupation: None given
I know a man who is perfectly fine. He was able to get a handicap sticker since he occasionally drove his disabled Mother to the doctors. I have no issue with that at all. I do have issue with the fact that he used that sticker to park in reserved parking the other 360 days a year. The initial handicap reserved parking/handicap tags made sense... it helped those among us suffering from all sorts of conditions. However, with everything that initially starts out as good... it is misused.
You (reasonably) healthy people out there using these tags when you don’t have to should be ashamed of yourself. What a bunch of lazy sobs. I had a friend in college who was handicapped, though I hesitate to call him that - he got around better then I did. Sure, he was confined to a wheelchair, but refused a handicap plate/placard for his car. In fact, we used to park well out in lots - so he’d be sure to have an empty slot next to him and room to get in/out. When I asked him about it, basically: “Bob, why are we hoofing it in from way out here?” His response was “Because I can. Some day, any day, I may not be able to, so while I can, I do.” I never asked about it again or said another word about it. So all you lazy people out there - appreciate your mobility. Get out, walk a few dozen extra yards. We could all use the exercise.
I see the fat ladies at Walmart ,who really need the exercise, park in the handicapped space and waddle over to the electric cart and park their fat asses in it with meat hanging over the side, and riding through the stores.
The only visible handicap is that they are too fat to walk.
There will always be miscreants that scoff at the law. The larger picture is being missed here: the city is charging $3 an hour for parking! for someone working an 8 hour day, that’s $24 bucks for the priviledge of providing the City of Chitcago with city and state wage taxes, or $120 a week. In the same way that ordinary folks in Canada were turned into “smugglers” for buying cigs in the US because the taxes were so high per pack, taxpayers (read “ordinary folks”) are responding in kind.
And like any enterprising citizen that have regressive taxes forced on them by government,many turn a buck by renting these placards. Now, like I said, I don’t condone the actions of a bunch of jerks out there parking closer at the mall or grocer that shouldn’t be, and causing problems and pain for those that deserve to park there, but it seems there are a lot of people that are simply avoiding paying the exhorbitant parking fees dowtown to go to work, and is not an issue of inconvenience for a handicapped person deprived of a closer parking space or ramp.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t work downtown, and don’t live in Chitcago
On this subject...they should do away with handicapped parking spots and just let those with cards use two parking spaces.
Same people who spend forty minutes driving up and down the mall parking lot aisles looking for the close-in spot, instead of walking twenty yards. Lazy.
How can they tell just by looking at someone? I got a permit at age 44 due to having a form of muscular dystrophy which affects my legs (and arms), as well as kidney failure, (which caused weakened bones). Could they tell I had renal osteodystrophy, putting me at high risk for a fracture from a fall just by looking at me? Could they see my feet which are misshapen (and chronically painful) through my orthotics and shoes? Appearances CAN be deceiving.