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. . .
Even in the Soviet Era, Москва had ГУМ, pronounced [ˈɡum], an abbreviation of the Russian: Главный универсальный магазин (Grasniya Universalnia Magazine — Great Universal Store), which in Moscow, was the largest store in the world. . . but it never had anything to sell.
I see that all the time!
I have one in my Tahoe but it is my husbands plackard, I don't use it!
What I often see is a car with disabled plates or placard with a little old lady or man in it, or a scooter on the back, pull in to the handicapped space, with a strapping young caregiver driving. The little old lady or man STAYS in the car while the caregiver goes in to get a prescription or do a quick pick-up of something and runs back out, using the handicapped privilege of the person who never leaves the car! Say WHAT????
The other thing that strikes me is going to a medical building with multiple offices, say twenty. . . and they have only three or four disabled parking spaces in a parking lot of two or three hundred parking spaces. Again, say WHAT? Don't they think there just might be MORE disabled people visiting medical offices? I find this consistently happening.
I see that a lot too.
There is also an underground market in handicap tags. You can get one for about $100.
I have spent many years of my life trying to avoid places like that.
Horrible.
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I can understand what you went through, I’ve seen a very similar situation all my life. If you do now have a handicapped sticker, good for you, and you should have the option to use it if you wish. Same as any person who is truly handicapped. If you choose the option of walking a little instead, good for you. But if you need it, that option should be available as well and some bozo who doesn’t care should be getting a ticket.
As some have already mentioned a lot of people in this country are making use of handicapped stickers/license plates who are quite capable of walking. Many I see in grocery stores riding around in electric carts would benefit greatly from the bit of exercise they would get walking too.
As with any other program intended to assist people who need it, unfortunately this one is being abused, same as food stamps and welfare.
I tried to get my uncle to get a handicapped sticker for 20 years. He refused. I tried telling him 99% of the time it wouldn’t be needed, he could park wherever he wanted to and walk, but when I had to half carry him in the store that damn sticker would really be handy to have...he refused. and you have no idea how much it pisses him off to see people park in handicapped spaces without a sticker...
My father was the opposite. He had a handicapped sticker, he had a stroke and was completely capable of walking in the woods to hunt but threw screaming fits when I refused to park in a handicapped spot so he wouldn’t have to walk 50 feet further. I’m serious too, I parked 2 spaces from the handicapped spot one day and he started screaming at me for not using his handicapped sticker. Less than 50 feet...his problem was not a handicap, he was just plain lazy. And I enjoyed every second of refusing to park in the handicapped spots...I’d just tell him you can walk. Somebody else is looking for that spot who can’t.
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