Very simple....we print the card tags with the disabilty on them.
My wife has JLS when she sleeps. Can she get a sticker?
Heck, I don’t mind the disabled using some of the otherwise unused spaces right beside the building. Someone should!
So should 1 in 2 Americans have handicapped parking stickers?
So half the spaces in the lot should be handicapped?
At that rate, we’ll need to make half of all parking lots handicap accessible only spots.
I’m sorry, but the majority of these problems ironically come from the lack of exercise and poor eating habits.
Perhaps we ought to put everyone’s handicap place, save for those who have an actual cane or chair, on the outskirts of the parking lot.
Unfortunately there are many who abuse the handicap system which makes it more difficult for those who truly need it.
I have arthritis and after sitting in the car a while my joints get still. I use the farther walk in the parking lot to get everything working again.
Of course I could use a handicap sticker and park in a blue spot but I try and let the people “WHO REALLY NEED IT” use it.
Is 20 pound for the weight like 30 pounds if a guy lifts?
seems like everybody has a story about seeing some “healthy” person using the handicapped spaces. I say “rubbish!”
Unless you’re a doctor, you don’t know. I look fine much of the time, yet my condition is virtually incurable, and when it flares up, it FLARES up.
But the only time I have ever been acosted sicne 1978-ish when I got the first permit, was when I had the motorcycle. The acuser apparently was ignorant of the fact that handicapped people can and often do ride motorcycles.
But my real beef is that people expect disabled folk to be poor and destitute. I get more bad looks parking my 07 GT Mustang, than ever because I customized it, and everybody knows that handicapped people have to be poor, needy, onthe dole, adn incapable of succeeding in the world...
Ahhhhhhh,the hell with it. If I’ve got to park farther away from a building and walk,maybe the excercise will keep me from actually getting handicapped !!!
A lot of people use placards that don’t belong to them. I worked with a person who was handicapped and she had a parking place right by the door.
I began to notice students and others parking in the spot and bounding down the street. One person was a football player, another was going to the gym. I would take the license plate number and the permit number and check with the registry to see if they matched. Out of ten that I checked not one of them matched. Mostly it was a permit of a dead grandparent or a mother who had bunion surgery and never returned the permit.
1/4 of the US population is mentally ill. We don’t have enough spaces for them.
source (SPOOA) statistics pulled out of...
Add paranoid to her list.
“Seventy percent of suicides have uncontrollable physical pain as a factor.”
______________________________________________________________
Where does she get this figure. That’s truly awful if true and should be flogged as often as possible when the issue of pain control and painkiller prescription is brought up.
Damn those rednecks for giving Oxycontin a bad name.
Seems to me a bunch of Americans just need to mind their own dang business.
I don’t give a crap who parks in the blue spots, I don’t care if they “deserve” to or not.
Why are there so many busy bodies in our country?
I think it’s because we mistakenly classified pimp slapping stupid people as assault, JMO.
I smile eerily, as if to an invisible presence over the questioner’s shoulder, and say, in a singsong robotic voice, “I’m psychotic, little angel, would you like to go back to heaven with me?” This generally backs them up.
What would we print on mine?
I all to often get that look of “You are stealing a handicapped person place and you look healthy to me” The symptoms of advanced emphysema and COPD are hard to spot from a distance and I only use the , what I call the “Cripple Tag” on a bad day. Walking is no problem but the distance is the problem
What really irks me is when I need a spot and have the license plates for them and they are all full than I see two football players running to a car with the tag hanging on the mirror and getting in and running back to the store.
Than you look at the next car and it has no handicapped symbol of any sort but the engine is running and the guy is reading the newspaper. It has now become a standing zone.
In Houston we have a program where individual citizens can write a ticket and take em to court. You have to go to classes, learn the way to do it and start out the right way.
You have to remember one thing. Write the ticket in full befor you take the mandatory photo. If you try the picture first you get people driving off as fast as they can
No one should get a handicapped sticker unless they are in a wheelchair. Better yet, since the “handi-capable” demand to be treated like everyone else, eliminate handicapped parking altogether.
I recently counted 12 in a nearby Home Depot parking lot: how many people in wheelchairs have you ever seen pushing sheets of drywall out to their cars? Sheesh ...