With all the people who are on “disability” these days, I’m surprised 90% of parking spaces aren’t reserved for “the handicapped.”
Ah Yes ADA, yet ANOTHER Bush infliction on the United States.
How CONVIENIENT the this RINO/GOP-e JACKA$$ doesn’t even mention George HW Bush’s ADA.
Ex-hubby used to call them "Parking for A--holes."
Where I live there is a pretty big concentration of professional atheletes. Many really nice cars with handicapped stickers. Also there are the really jacked up pick up trucks with handicapped stickers. If they can climb into the truck cab thhey can walk n extra 20’.
Indeed - I mostly sneer when I see someone pull into a handicapped parking place in a big ol’ welfare wagon and out hops an able-bodied young man.
And, YES, “stereotypes” are based in truth.
Having worked at a walmart I can state that easily half of the people who park in the handicap parking spots are perfectly fine. Most are just fat a$$es.
I don’t think this is the man who wrote “Disabling America”, which is mostly about how awful the ADA and its ridiculous demands are.
Anyway, we really need to get rid of this nonsense.
My daughter’s friend is truly handicapped and she gets stares when she gets out of the car. People really need to get a life. Just because you think you can’t see a disability doesn’t mean it’s not there. She will be on an IV with saline running straight through a PICC line for the rest of her life. She has tons of life threatening allergies that have put her in the hospital numerous times. She’s young and thin (too thin) and appears healthy- as long as you don’t look in her backpack- it has her saline bag and her IV is running up her shirt sleeve.
Yep, scandalous.
As a shrink, I tell prospective patients up front that I will not participate in any way in efforts to get any disability or special compensation in legal or employment matters. I am a doctor: I diagnose illness and prescribe treatment. That’s it. My job is to get people well, not get them a government check, or FMLA, or workers’ comp, or a pain and suffering settlement. Their attorney may send for records, and I am required to honor such requests, but that is all.
There is also an unspoken rule at the clinic where I have my practice: we accept Medicare only for people over 65. That weeds out the majority who will fight to the death to stay “sick.” I’m not interested in people who want to stay sick when I can get them well.
“There is no substance more addictive than a monthly check from the government.”
Concerning such government programs: “If you build it, they will come.” The lawyers and the government itself will make sure that that is true.
A couple of years ago I pulled into a K-Mart parking lot and in one of the handicap spaces was an SUV that had a bike on a rear mounted rack, and a kayak on the roof.
I’m still scratching my head over that one...
At least for me...I park far from the store so I get some exercise. Thus this abuse of disabled plates and tags is nasty but I am not affected. I rode with a friend recently who was sick a year ago so got the tags..but he is still using them now that he is well. Cheap lazy bast*rd!
There ... corrected the sentence. This person is judging on appearances only. The person getting out of the handicap vehicle could very likely have a heart condition that limits the distance they can walk. Not all disabilibities are visible, nor do all make one walk like Quasimoto.
The disabled person’s name should be on the handicapped tag as well as an expiration date.
I have seen dates recently from 2005. I have also seen people with NO tags parking in these spaces. Where is the $200-$500 penalty for these people?
When at Walmart in Iron Mountain, MI the disabled parking spots are filled up with get this Walmart Employees. When at Walmart in Marquette, MI the disabled parking spots are filled by Northern Michigan University students whom park cars there and have a number of students get in one vehicle and go park on campus parking.
being in a wheelchair I generally park my vehicle away from others and get out of the vehicle and roll the wheelchair to the store. I have had two disabled equipped vans stolen because of the lift and so forth in it. Now that pisses me off, as the insurance company will drop me if it happens again.
Family members borrow the cars with the HC stickers.
I one case I know a wife of a doctor uses the HC spot in front of the health and fitness club (Gym) then spends an hour running on the machine inside. I would love to video her and post it on youtube.
Police here only do the easy route, write $180 fine tickets for those without the stickers.
Thank GHWB and Martha and Bob Dole for this too.
I see this too, nearly everyone who uses a handicapped space is using no walker, no wheelchair, not even a cane.
I am in a shopping center parking lot nearly every day picking up friends without wheels (or licenses). So lots of time is spent sitting there watching the passing parade. (Boomer reference!)
Meanwhile I can just about walk myself, most days, due to an injured spine, and I’m always grabbing the nearest cart to lean on, when I have to go into a supermarket. Yet I don’t have a handicapped sticker.
The populace (you can’t call them citizenry any longer) are accustomed to having their noses wiped for them. This won’t change except to get worse over time. Liberty? Who needs it! Wipe me!
Your politicians at work.
OK, so this mostly about fraud.
I do want to comment about these spaces. It angers me to no end that more and more spaces for handicapped (and Eco cars, and pregnant women, and etc.) are made but THEY ARE NOT USED! So I’m forced to park very far because God help me I take the hallowed empty space.
Here’s another thing. Not all you see “healthy” at those spots really are. Some have troubles that are internal, others have problems that don’t appear that much but often are. My mother now has a temp pass. She has had excruciating nerve pain in her thigh some 15 years now, only the last 5 or so did she get the pass. My father likewise has problems sometimes with his leg because of the blood clots in them, particularly AFTER walking through a big mall or so. They sometimes have good days, but often just a bit of walking hurts them. Again, most of the time these spaces are unused, irritatingly vacant. I don’t have a problem with someone using it for a change even if their ailment seems hidden.
To boot, I have MANY chronic body problems, worst my hip problems, and somewhat my fasciitis. You can’t see it but it’s there. My sister, RIP, had cancer but she was such an A personality that you would not know it, except maybe when she was bald. She never had a pass in her 3 years. Sometimes if we were with our parents we were grateful to borrow it (stage IV she had more exhaustion) if not feeling well.