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Disabled parking bays.
- Thread starter Freddie Goodwin.
- Start date
The football wouldn't be a great idea in that case...
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Banned
Just park in someone elses disabled bay then get out and limp.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
A question for anyone out there who has a dodgy acquaintance or two ...
What's the going rate in Brighton for a stolen Blue Parking Badge?
What's the going rate in Brighton for a stolen Blue Parking Badge?
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
No, so perhaps this bloke has a different problem?
A woman living opposite us has one.
She's apparently (at least, when she knows anyone's watching) disabled enough that she has to hobble along with two sticks and looking in a lot of pain, yet she works as a cleaner at our local 6th form college and also lives in a house where she has to negotiate two flights of steps to get from her front door to the road.
The woman is a scrounger, and is no more disabled than I am.
She's apparently (at least, when she knows anyone's watching) disabled enough that she has to hobble along with two sticks and looking in a lot of pain, yet she works as a cleaner at our local 6th form college and also lives in a house where she has to negotiate two flights of steps to get from her front door to the road.
The woman is a scrounger, and is no more disabled than I am.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Disabilities take all shapes and forms, not necessarily visible ones (before you go and lynch this neighbour).
A mate of mine was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was about 21, and suffered from epilepsy as a result. He was entitled to a blue badge, as even though he wasn't allowed to drive himself, it applies to the car not the user. Physically, you couldn't tell there was anything wrong with him.
Similarly, I believe children with autistic disorders are sometimes decreed eligible for blue badges. Kids on the autistic spectrum can appear perfectly "normal" (if that's the right word) yet cannot cope with changes to their routine, and may find going out anywhere different a complete ordeal, therefore it doesn't sound unreasonable to allowe their parents to park close by to wherever they're going.
There are undoubtedly some right spongers about, but it's not fair to go around assuming someone is on the fiddle just because they're parked in a disabled space and aren't in a wheelchair*
*though I suppose if the person in question is clearly a 6ft builder who parks his truck in a disabled bay at Tesco while going to get sandwiches for the lads, it may be reasonable...
A mate of mine was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was about 21, and suffered from epilepsy as a result. He was entitled to a blue badge, as even though he wasn't allowed to drive himself, it applies to the car not the user. Physically, you couldn't tell there was anything wrong with him.
Similarly, I believe children with autistic disorders are sometimes decreed eligible for blue badges. Kids on the autistic spectrum can appear perfectly "normal" (if that's the right word) yet cannot cope with changes to their routine, and may find going out anywhere different a complete ordeal, therefore it doesn't sound unreasonable to allowe their parents to park close by to wherever they're going.
There are undoubtedly some right spongers about, but it's not fair to go around assuming someone is on the fiddle just because they're parked in a disabled space and aren't in a wheelchair*
*though I suppose if the person in question is clearly a 6ft builder who parks his truck in a disabled bay at Tesco while going to get sandwiches for the lads, it may be reasonable...
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
If you are on patrol, what are you able to do if you see this 6ft builder clearly parking his car illegally in a disabled bay? Are tickets only dished out by parking wardens? Would be allowed to warn him, report him, arrest him, rough him up?
Think about £200ish, but getting very hot on it now.
Freddie Goodwin.
Well-known member
- Thread starter
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There is no doubt that the son is serverly disabled, I just wondered why a space has now been given which will only be of benefit to him about 10mins each schoolday and maybe various other occasions when he is taken out. Often he will travel on the bus with help from his mother. I'm pretty sure the space will soon be used by other blue badge holders.
Also, and I can only guess at this, i think the mother's brother will have the blue badge and, although he may occasionally visit, does that allow him to use that badge as & when he likes?
PS to csider, I now trail in your postings wake....
There is no doubt that the son is serverly disabled, I just wondered why a space has now been given which will only be of benefit to him about 10mins each schoolday and maybe various other occasions when he is taken out. Often he will travel on the bus with help from his mother. I'm pretty sure the space will soon be used by other blue badge holders.
Also, and I can only guess at this, i think the mother's brother will have the blue badge and, although he may occasionally visit, does that allow him to use that badge as & when he likes?
PS to csider, I now trail in your postings wake....
Eat my dust Freddie!!!!
Lord Bracknell
On fire
The Blue Badge will be issued to the child. It will have the child's name and photograph on it.
The mother's brother will only be able to use the badge when the child is travelling.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
One rule for them, another.........Police have been criticised for parking in a disabled bay at a supermarket.
Officers parked in the bay at the Marks & Spencer store at Holmbush, Shoreham, despite several other free spaces being available.
At the same time, Stephan Bennett, 41, of Montague Street, Kemp Town, arrived to do his shopping. He saw the officers' car taking up the bay on Thursday evening.
Mr Bennett, who damaged the ligaments in his knee during a fall in 2005, is registered disabled.
He said there were other bays available at the time for the police to park in and that the store's loading bay was also nearby and a better place to park than a disabled bay.
He prints stickers reminding drivers who park illegally in disabled bays that they are there for people who need them.
They read: "You are parking in a disabled bay, please have consideration and park somewhere else."
He said: "Unfortunately I didn't have any on me at the time otherwise I would have slapped one on the police car straight away.
"I waited there for about ten minutes and there was no sign of them.
When I came out of the store about half an hour later they were gone. If they were there on an emergency call, there was no sign of it."
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "The vehicle in question was being used to collect a shoplifter who had been behaving violently towards shop staff.
It's important to stress that if a member of the public does see a police vehicle parked in a disabled bay or double yellow line the chances are that it's responding to an emergency call."
