People who park in disabled places without a blue badge

[MoggasDog]

The older I get, the worse I get.

I get enraged when selfish people park in disabled spots who aren't showing a blue badge and are CLEARLY completely able bodied.

I was at the supermarket and just about to enter the door when a car parked up - a couple in their 20s inside. Only one blue badge space left.
They notice me looking and laugh. They get out to reveal themselves, unsurprisingly, as two fat chavs with neck tattoos, air max et al. As usual, I was quick to judge and, as usual, I was right.

Just as unsurprising was that I impotently, wimpishly said nothing for fear of direct confrontation. If I thought I might get away with it, I would have gladly murdered them both with an axe, right there in the car park, and left them for the birds to eat.
But I needed a card for our Dad and some cornettos.

 

[Davey_C]

Private car parks are all over this its easy money for them

Usual explanation is it 'slipped out the window' when I closed the door

This does not usually win an appeal

 

[Fattyfoggon]

The older I get, the worse I get.

I get enraged when selfish people park in disabled spots who aren't showing a blue badge and are CLEARLY completely able bodied.

I was at the supermarket and just about to enter the door when a car parked up - a couple in their 20s inside. Only one blue badge space left.
They notice me looking and laugh. They get out to reveal themselves, unsurprisingly, as two fat chavs with neck tattoos, air max et al. As usual, I was quick to judge and, as usual, I was right.

Just as unsurprising was that I impotently, wimpishly said nothing for fear of direct confrontation. If I thought I might get away with it, I would have gladly murdered them both with an axe, right there in the car park, and left them for the birds to eat.
But I needed a card for our Dad and some cornettos.

yeah I am the same and getting worse, same as the ones that park in the set down only places at Tesco's lazy feckkers, but at the end of the day it pretty trivial got let it go lol, or driving in Bus lanes what is so special about them that they can use them !

 

[Rofesleg]

The older I get, the worse I get.

I get enraged when selfish people park in disabled spots who aren't showing a blue badge and are CLEARLY completely able bodied.

I was at the supermarket and just about to enter the door when a car parked up - a couple in their 20s inside. Only one blue badge space left.
They notice me looking and laugh. They get out to reveal themselves, unsurprisingly, as two fat chavs with neck tattoos, air max et al. As usual, I was quick to judge and, as usual, I was right.

Just as unsurprising was that I impotently, wimpishly said nothing for fear of direct confrontation. If I thought I might get away with it, I would have gladly murdered them both with an axe, right there in the car park, and left them for the birds to eat.
But I needed a card for our Dad and some cornettos.

Parking without a badge - that is wrong.

But I would like to point out that my son has a blue badge and is CLEARLY completely able bodied. Don't confuse the two things.

 

[Davey_C]

Parent and child spaces too .. some are parent and toddler ive noticed whilst others are children upto the age of 12

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Let their tyres down!

 

[JM14]

Worth remembering that someone who looks perfectly healthy can also be disabled and have just as much need for that disabled bay, disabled toilet etc

 

[The Card Cheat]

I've seen people park diagonally across TWO disabled parking spaces. Because to illegally take just one doesn't provide enough evidence that you are a complete Doyle.

It's weird mind, I'd never dream of parking in a disabled space but I'd have no qualms using a disabled toilet...
Maybe I'm wrong?

 

[jam69]

Worth remembering that someone who looks perfectly healthy can also be disabled and have just as much need for that disabled bay, disabled toilet etc

Can be, but I think the OP is taking about those without a badge with no clear signs of disability

 

[Rofesleg]

Can be, but I think the OP is taking about those without a badge with no clear signs of disability

The signs or otherwise of a disability are irrelevant though.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

I've seen chumps doing this in the sports centre car park. They've come to use the gym but are too lazy to walk up half the length of the car park

 

[Steer]

Some injustices in this world are worth getting upset and angry about, but this is probably not one of them.

 

[Redwurzel]

I agree these disabled spaces are for Blue Badges holders, but some providers seem to have the ratio wrong.

My local rail station is about 60% non-disabled spaces and 40% disabled spaces for short stay parking (20 minutes). Considering 10% of UK population has a disability this doesn't seem quite right.

So often all non disabled spaces are used up while nearly all the disabled spaces are not used. People then start parking in non designated spaces blocking up the road etc when it would be safer to park in the disabled spot and maybe wait for the person they are picking up.

 

[jam69]

The signs or otherwise of a disability are irrelevant though.

Yes I know, but I think his point is they didn't have a badge, if they were say wheelchair bound then I doubt he would be bothered

 

[Dybuk]

I don't know how people get them. My mam's in her 80s and had a stroke. She can hardly walk but I can't get one just for when I'm driving her round (getting glasses or food or whatnot).
So I have to park a distance away so I can get the door wide enough to get her in and out of the car then have a very slow walk

 

[Angus]

Let their tyres down!

You could do that but you face being potentially prosecuted for criminal damage.

 

[JM14]

Can be, but I think the OP is taking about those without a badge with no clear signs of disability

You can’t define if someone is disabled by just looking at them. Many disabilities show no clear signs

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

The older I get, the worse I get.

I get enraged when selfish people park in disabled spots who aren't showing a blue badge and are CLEARLY completely able bodied.

I was at the supermarket and just about to enter the door when a car parked up - a couple in their 20s inside. Only one blue badge space left.
They notice me looking and laugh. They get out to reveal themselves, unsurprisingly, as two fat chavs with neck tattoos, air max et al. As usual, I was quick to judge and, as usual, I was right.

Just as unsurprising was that I impotently, wimpishly said nothing for fear of direct confrontation. If I thought I might get away with it, I would have gladly murdered them both with an axe, right there in the car park, and left them for the birds to eat.
But I needed a card for our Dad and some cornettos.

I've said before that the best solution is for security to deflate all 4 tyres and let them understand the meaning of inconvenience.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

I've seen chumps doing this in the sports centre car park. They've come to use the gym but are too lazy to walk up half the length of the car park

Same at our local leisure centre.
But It's council owned and recently they clamped down with wardens dishing out tickets regularly.
Can't say I wasn't satisfied with that move.

 

[Redwurzel]

I don't know how people get them. My mam's in her 80s and had a stroke. She can hardly walk but I can't get one just for when I'm driving her round (getting glasses or food or whatnot).
So I have to park a distance away so I can get the door wide enough to get her in and out of the car then have a very slow walk

Dybuk

Visit your Council Offices - R&C had a paper form to fill out. When my mum could hardly walk I got a form. I started filling it out for her and when I put the truth she went berserk. I don't think she could cope mentally with her old age disability. So she wanted me to say she could walk. I said you will not get a badge and thats how it ended, she should have had a badge but didn't.

Would your mum accept a wheelchair?