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This Looks Like A Handicap Spot, And It Is. But Try To Park In It Without A Sticker And ... GENIUS!
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Posted on 10/09/2015 9:48:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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To: Swordmaker
It's sad that we can't rely on people to do the right thing ... now we need this expensive technology to promote following the law.

Maybe we need holograms of the Heavenly Father & St. Peter at exit doors of stores that are heavily pilfered.


21 posted on 10/10/2015 12:00:56 AM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: Swordmaker

As George Carlin said, “I love handicapped people. If it weren’t for handicapped people, I never would find a parking spot.”


22 posted on 10/10/2015 12:02:24 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Swordmaker

Try that here and listen to the howls of profiling, or whatever.......................


23 posted on 10/10/2015 12:05:55 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: cherry

Agree Cherry...

My mom has one and needs it yet when I take her to he doctor or to shop she gets angry that I won’t use those spaces with her tag that hangs from the mirror. I take her to the door and go park in a regular spot. When her task is completed I take her back to the door and go get the car and pick her up..... I see way to many folks that may look healthy but have serious issues none the less. Doom on em that are healthy and deprive those that benefit from the shorter distance to walk.

As well..... those that go walk two miles of shopping down every isle in the big box stores or mall after parking 30 yards closer to the door in a handicap space with a proper tag..... sad.


24 posted on 10/10/2015 12:28:02 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Swordmaker
I wondered if a sopping mall in Moscow would really use a 3-D hologram for a parking space.

Googled АВИА ПАРК Москва

That appears to be a multistory saltwater aquarium. Wow.

25 posted on 10/10/2015 12:35:21 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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26 posted on 10/10/2015 12:42:39 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: mrsadams; cherry
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.

I, like you, look healthy. I'm a big strapping man, but I wore a Milwaukee Brace all the way through high school due to scoliosis. I'm 67 now and I've been in pain since I was eight years old.

I now have bone-on-bone contact between every vertebrae in my spine, yet I will not take any narcotics to alleviate the discomfort or the pain, nor for the phantom pains caused by the nerves being impinged on.

Now, add to that in the course of my life, I've been rear-ended TEN TIMES, every time while I was stuck in traffic, not moving, hit by idiots not paying attention to their driving—the last time just seven months ago!

Were my back straight the doctors tell me I'd be 6'4", but I start the day slightly under six feet tall and by the end at night, wind up at 5'9” because of the collapse of my spine. On a good day, I don't need the handicap space and will leave it open for someone worse off than me, but if the weather changes—I'm a great barometer—I need the closest parking I can find!

27 posted on 10/10/2015 1:07:50 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: cherry

I call the cops. It’s a $250 ticket in my small town. They love to get the money! Several months ago I went to a Golden Corral. I have shot knees but don’t have a “Handicapped” plate Two brand new, minority owned Caddy Escalades pulled up to the reserved spots and disgorged about 10 kids. I called the cops. They came. $500 dollars worth of tickets! Bwaaaa!


28 posted on 10/10/2015 1:38:45 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: AZLiberty

“As George Carlin said,...”

I believe it was George that posed the question as to why there are braille numbers on the drive-up ATM’s


29 posted on 10/10/2015 2:52:57 AM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Swordmaker

I watched a guy key the entire length of an Escalade parked illegally in a handicapped space.

I gave him a thumbs up.


30 posted on 10/10/2015 3:51:41 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
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To: Swordmaker

Most people that I see in the wheelie spots are either obese (and therefore need the exercise) or are borrowing some else’s tag. It would be nice to see a crackdown on them.


31 posted on 10/10/2015 4:12:58 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: Swordmaker

“choose to ignore the flat sign”

I don’t know how it works in Russia, but in the DC area, spaces require BOTH the pavement marking and a sign. I have seen one or two spaces with markings only.

When I see “flat sign”, it makes me think they only have the pavement marking.

I am tall enough so that I can see over the hood, but plenty of folks are not. I see plenty of “driverless” cars where you can see someone driving when you’re looking from the car behind them.

There’s no way such a person would see the marking on the floor as they pull into a space.

So the problem in Russia may be the absence of signs in addition to the markings. Don’t know. Keep in mind, snow will cover a pavement marking.


32 posted on 10/10/2015 4:45:58 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: dayglored

Make some paper signs to put on the offending car-

“You are parked in a handicapped spot and have no sticker, you must be a liberal. No conservative would do this.”


33 posted on 10/10/2015 6:05:56 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: KC Burke

As you should be. As bad as we think we might have it in this life, there is always someone who has it worse.


34 posted on 10/10/2015 6:08:40 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: Swordmaker

At one supermarket there are handicapped spots and non handicapped spots equal distance from the entrance. It burns me up when the handicapped park in the spaces for non handicapped when there are several handicapped spots open. Why not the reverse punishment for them when this occurs?


35 posted on 10/10/2015 6:47:21 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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At one supermarket there are handicapped spots and non handicapped spots equal distance from the entrance. It burns me up when the handicapped park in the spaces for non handicapped when there are several handicapped spots open. Why not the reverse punishment for them when this occurs?

If a non-handicapped person is driving a car with a handicap sticker, they're not supposed to park in the handicap spots.

36 posted on 10/10/2015 6:50:31 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: BykrBayb

I know what you mean. Between hubby and me he has had 2 hips replaced, a knee and just started chemo so he is weak. He just got a permanent handicap sticker. I’ve had one knee replaced and am in pretty good shape but too many errands and stops and I am pooped for the rest of the day. I won’t use his sticker when I go out but his has come in handy already for him. Other than walking slow he does not look disabled.


37 posted on 10/10/2015 7:01:52 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: QBFimi
Nana, can I borrow your car to go to the mall?

My Mom has a handicap plate on her car, and I drive it when I run errands for her, so it gets the batter charged, the fluids circulated, and a fresh tank of gas once in a while. If I don't it can sit for weeks, and that's not good for them. Never park it in a handicap slot, though.

38 posted on 10/10/2015 7:09:16 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Swordmaker

One of my uncles had polio when he was 2. Right leg 1 1/2” shorter than his left, the calf about the size of my biceps. At least a dozen surgeries, I’m not sure how long in an iron lung, enough metal in his right leg to built a radio.

I’ve watched him refuse to get a handicapped sticker or plates for many years, even when I had to help him get in the store, half carrying him sometimes. He finally had the leg amputated just below the knee and walks on an artificial leg now. Still refuses to get a handicapped sticker. He says as long as he can still walk someone who needs it can have the handicapped spot.

I did carpenter work with him for several years. I’ve seen him climb on ladders every day, walk on the roof every day doing several roofing jobs, crawl around on his knees doing floors. And I’ve seen him do it with blisters on his stump the size of a quarter...

And I’ve seen people half his age (He’s about 65 now) who won’t do most of the jobs we did and won’t do them half as well if they do. And I don’t like it when I see them in a handicapped space without a sticker...


39 posted on 10/10/2015 8:52:33 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (I'm with the bomb squad. If you see me running, CATCH UP!)
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One of my uncles had polio when he was 2. Right leg 1 1/2” shorter than his left, the calf about the size of my biceps. At least a dozen surgeries, I’m not sure how long in an iron lung, enough metal in his right leg to built a radio.

My right foot is a size and a half smaller than my left and the theory is that I had a mild case of polio when I was about two as well. . . That threw off my back development. The time frame is right and I had a long term fever at that age the doctor attributed to a "milk allergy". They started adding a ¾" lift in my right shoe when I was about 10, because they decided my right leg was shorter than my left. . . but the problem was actually in my back. Not once from age eight to 14 did any doctor look at my back. By the time someone finally did, the double curvature was too set in to do much about except to arrest it going any farther with the Milwaukee Brace, a cage of leather and aluminum extending from my hips to chin—a medieval torture rack— which had to wear twenty-three hours a day.

I resisted getting that placard as long as I could. . .

40 posted on 10/10/2015 10:41:17 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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