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
ever think that they were getting something for somebody else? on more than one occasion I was with friends when one of htem had an insulin attack. If the usual candy bar didn't sstop the reaction, I would send somebody to the car to get another one. In these cases these 'normal' persons would run to the car, grab the item requested, then hotfoot it back to us.
Careful here! According to camle (see post #30), you are “playing into stereotypes” by daring to assume that these poor football players do not deserve their handicapped sticker.
After all, those football players may have had pain shooting up their spines. Or maybe they are running because each step hurts and they want to get in as quickly as possible. Even better, maybe it's because “someone they care about was inside in need of help”.