Posted on 08/20/2007 7:41:24 AM PDT by Between the Lines
Happens to a guy I know all the time. He has been on dialysis for years and just had a kidney transplant. A short walk can wear him out completely, but he looks fit.
Don’t get me started on the “companion” animals that the housewives drag in the stores.
Vacation (rental car) would be an issue, but I don't see the problem with 4 cards. I was just trying to think of a better way than the other guy's suggestion to put the disability on the card, which is a terrible idea IMO.
Add paranoid to her list.
I'd agree with you except that I remember people said exactly that to a minor celebrity -- who had a genetic deformity AND the temerity to have children.
That celebrity is Bree Walker, who used to be an anchorette at several big-market local TV stations. She has severely deformed hands and feet.
(Walker has recently popped into the news as the buyer of Cindy Sheehan's little bit o' Texas property near the Bush ranch. I don't sympathize with Walker's idiotic politics; but she was right to take umbrage at people who indignantly assailed her decision not to abort her children.)
So my poor old mother who died from heart failue, and couldn't walk more than a hundred feet or so without chest pain, shouldn't have had a handicap sitcker in the last few months of her life? This has really become a forum for those who don't think.
Why would someone with a mental illness need a closer parking space? Isn’t this only for people with problem with their legs or mobility? This should not even be an issue. Mental illness does not warrant such a permit
I just hate when an able-bodied person runs to the store in a car with a handicapped permit and parks in HC spots, or when the HC person stays in the car while the able-bodied person goes into the store, while parked in an HC spot.
My brother has a handicapped permit, and we only park in HC parking if the closest spaces are far away from the entrance to the store(or other place).
Isn’t that the truth!
If a person can run into a store, he/she should not take up a handicap spot, blocking it for somebody who can’t run into the store.
I have a handicap placard. I only use it when I need it. Most of the time I can walk quite nicely. When I can run, I sure won’t park in a handicap spot.
I guess I didn’t make that clear. I gave the information to the registry. They cancelled all the placards of the dead people and retrieved the stolen ones. How they dealt with the ones who gave their permits to others, I don’t know.
One person who was using a stolen placard was given 24 hours to return it by FedEx or their license and the registration of their father’s car (which they were using) was going to be revoked. Needless to say the father was p.o.’d at his son.
In My Universe, anyone who scammed the system would have to make a public apology for it. Those who are awarded the spaces should be the ones using them.
And you produced this "fact" based on what?
Abuses certainly happen, but even in that scenario, how do you know the driver isn't picking up a disabled passenger?
Of course I shop at Navy Exchanges and DECA a lot, so as well as having to contend with a dozen empty handicapped spaces there are also a multitude of empty Flag, CO, XO, and CMC spaces. Living in military housing, it’s sometimes easier to bring my son’s Radio Flyer and walk to the Commissary—good for me, too.
I agree with you. There are lots of forms of disabilites. To get a HC sticker or placard, a patient needs to be medically qualified. Unfortunately, too many of us are Sunday morning quarterback ‘doctors’ who can instantly diagnose another human being within the confines of a parking garage. My thought is- if you are that great of a clinician, set up an office and start seeing patients- otherwise show some tolerance for others, and thank God you don’t walk in a disabled person shoes.
I’m all in favor of letting blind people park in handicapped spots.
You don't know what you are talking about. For your sake, I hope you never find out how stupid that statement is.
“So my poor old mother who died from heart failue, and couldn’t walk more than a hundred feet or so without chest pain, shouldn’t have had a handicap sitcker in the last few months of her life?”
Sorry about your mom, perhaps you should have gotten her a powered chair. I can’t think of too many places other than the post office where you can get something accomplished without walking more than 100 ft. Certainly not the grocery or Walmart.
And Yes, I defend my use of the word "legitimately"; if you're healthy enough to use a hiking trail, you're healthy enough to walk a few more feet through the parking lot.
My only problem with handicap spaces is that there are way too many of them. Just one example that I noticed over the weekend. Kohl's deptment store has about 25 of the things. One was in use and when I came out that person had gone. Usually they just sit empty. Whatever idiotic law determines the number that a business has to have must anticipate that every permit holder will call every other one and agree to hit the same stores at the same time. But I make no assumptions about people using them. Up until a couple of weeks before she died my mother didn't look especially unwell - just old.
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