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. . .
genius !
DANG!
I remember fondly the quaint old days when only the very physically handicapped got special parking spots....
I guess the casino is the biggest farce....those handicap spots are never empty...
Nana, can I borrow your car to go to the mall?
“WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE THEM NOW”
Sure seems that way. Goes hand in hand with so many people out of the work force as “disabled” too. Before I get flamed, I realize not all disabilities are obvious, but there sure does seem to be a lot!
Not all disabilities are visible. My husband had a stroke, and requires a wheelchair. His disabilities are obvious to the casual observer. I had a lung removed. I can’t walk far. Sometimes I use a walker. Sometimes I use a power scooter. In most situations, it’s too difficult to get those things in and out of the vehicle, so I just try to limit the distance I have to walk. I don’t look disabled.
We need this really bad around Ithaca. For an allegedly "enlightened liberal" town, it's awfully damned insensitive to handicapped spots.
No one ever parks in handicapped parking spaces here, they are such a waste. We are elderly, and we don’t park there. For example, when we go to Target, we walk past about 25 handicapped spots, and there are never cars there.
The wife has pulmonary fibrosis. It makes walking distances a real problem for her.
To look at her, you wouldn’t think she has a disability. But follow her for five minutes and you will hear her laboring for breath.
I usually drop her off at the front of the store and then park.
It ticks me off to watch welfare queens, whose only disability is the extra hundred pounds of weight they lug around, park in a disabled spot and walk much quicker and farther than the wife is able to.
I do console myself with the thought that what goes around comes around.
About ten years ago, as my Dad approached 90 we would occasionally go to the store together and I would ride in his car. He had a handicap tag for my Mom who was about the same age and felt her joints hurt too much to go without one.
My Dad however was the one with very compromised mobility and barely hobbled along with a cane and got easily winded due to cardiovascular health.
However, if it was just him and not Mom in the car, he would not park in a handicap space. He said, “those are for sick people or those that really need them — I can walk.”
I was a matter of stubborn pride with him, but I couldn’t help be proud of the old bird.
I only use my walker or a wheelchair for long, unknown, or hazardous walks. I can do okay with a short walk, if I’m near the door (like in a handicapped space). Then I have enough stamina to Wal unaided.
Your amazing, you actually think that only those that use wheelchairs and walkers have a need for a handicap placard? Tell you what, you try and pull that on me when I use mine two spine surgeries and a bad knee and ankle) and I will be happy to rip you a new one in the parking lot. Is there abuse, yes, can you tell by looking at someone? Good luck!
Spare me...In my area (north east) it seems the handicap parking spots are on par with the normal spots anymore and if you have the time to just park and watch, the ones with the coveted “stickers” or mirror placards have absolutely no problem getting around. As another has pointed out, it seems the problem is too many people are considered handicapped these days.
Some places, inexplicably, have too many handicapped spaces, others too few.
I’m sorry, but you have NO idea what it is like to have an “invisible illness” like I have. I “look” normal, but I am fighting many health issues that prevent me from walking far without passing out. Just because someone doesn’t use a wheelchair doesn’t mean that they don’t need a spot as much as others.
Most people aren’t aware of some of the health issues that I and many other people are fighting. My response to you is just to make more people aware. It is very embarrassing for me to use the handicap placard and many people like me would rather not go out than have to use their placard, they are afraid (as I am) that people that aren’t aware will yell at them. We should not be forced to stay home because we can’t walk from a far spot in the parking lot to a store.
True Those with heart problems or COPD may not be in wheelchairs, but are helped by having this convenience. Actually I see many empty
ADA spaces in my travels. Not sure this is a rampant problem. Most likely the worst scenario is college campuses.
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