Do you regularly park in disabled bays?

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Having just watched an elderly lady get out of her car, limp to the boot of her car to get her zimmer frame out of her boot and scramble half way across a car park in order to get in to Sainsbury's, past all the able bodied folks in the disabled bays, I would just like to say that if you're one of those people who regularly parks in disabled bays that I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, hope you get hit by a bus and have to spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair.

Selfish ******.
 
I do take notice of it, as I often take my parents out and my dad now can't walk far, and most cars seem to have blue badges however the ones that don't tend to drive the more pricey cars.
 
I work in care and people who use them needlessly really get my blood boiling. As does parking on double yellows. Getting about in wheelchairs is hard enough; pavements are often poor or uneven. Blocking dips on the kerb or parking on the pavement thus leaving no place to pass is appalling. I must admit I wasn't so aware of the latter until I started going about a local village with a wheelchair user.
 
I get frequent dirty looks, and the occasional comment when I use a disabled bay with my blind wife.
Just because she isn't in a wheelchair most people seem to think she can't possibly be disabled.
 
No but I park in the family bays in the mornings, there's no one there!

Actully I lied, I park in a disabled space in work :p on going joke where my colleagues try and nick my space, I'm not disabled but our car park gets rammed unfortunatly, we have outgrown our carpark to the point where some people have to double park, so disabled space is fair game
 
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I never park in them. Sometimes I feel that a disabled bay appears to be only for blue badge holders and those driving 4x4's.
 
Diddums said:
Having just watched an elderly lady get out of her car, limp to the boot of her car to get her zimmer frame out of her boot and scramble half way across a car park in order to get in to Sainsbury's, past all the able bodied folks in the disabled bays, I would just like to say that if you're one of those people who regularly parks in disabled bays that I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, hope you get hit by a bus and have to spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair.

Selfish ******.
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How do you know that everyone parked in the disabled bays were able-bodied? Did you gather them all in one place and question them or are you just making **** up?
 
Main culprits I see doing it at my local Supermarket are actually Police cars parked there while they go and get their emergency lunches. And yes, I have watched them park up, walk in, stroll to the bakery counter, wait for their order and walk back to car with their pies, pasties, pastries and doughnuts all bagged up in convenient marked evidence bags.
 
Malevolence said:
How do you know that everyone parked in the disabled bays were able-bodied? Did you gather them all in one place and question them or are you just making **** up?
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No, I have these wonderful things in the front of my skull called "eyes". You should try them, they're quite amazing once you know how to use them.


//I'm not talking about people who pop in for a packet of fags or whatever when the park's almost empty and there are tons of bays available, these were clearly a group of people, late 20s / early 30s all on their way out, dressed for the club, 4 cars of them. The guys went inside whilst the women sat outside in the cars and waited. Everyone bends the rules from time to time, but don't inconvenience those less fortunate than yourself out of sheer arrogance.
 
I regularly park in them.

Mind you I do often carry a passenger (or passengers) with mobility problems and blue badges, and I have mobility issues myself and thus have a blue badge (but I try not to park using the nearest bays to the entrance).

One thing I would say, don't assume that because someone looks fit that they are, I often look reasonably fit and able, at least when getting out of the car, by the time I get back it's often a completely different matter :p (especially as I can't/won't take some of the pain killers when I'm driving).
 
mattyg said:
Youve SEEN all those abled bodied people.

Let me ask you one question

Exactly what does a disability look like?
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I highly doubt that 4 cars, all filled with 30somethings, dressed in heels and trainers ready to go clubbing (some with beers in their hand) were ALL disabled.

If so, then I apologize to those people in particular but my opinion remains the same. I'll take photos next time :rolleyes:
 
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