Disabled Parking Spaces???

Question

Why do people who do not have blue disabled parking badges insist on parking in the disabled spaces?

I have one due to a mobility problem, and on Saturday when my husband asked a woman in a BMW to move, when there were clearly plenty other spaces available for her, she went off her head at him, and threatened to report him to the cops for verbally abusing her. All he asked was that if she didnt have a disabled parking permit then could she move, so we could get the last space.

We had actually sat behind her in the car watching her for a good 5 minutes trying to reverse park without sucess, she spotted the disable bay in fornt of her and drove straight into it.

What do these people achieve knowing they are taking up a space that is needed by a disabled person???

Answer 1

I notice a lot of answers are from the USA. In England  you can't get the police out for a mugging let alone a parking space. No, the answer to these people is a tyre valve key. I've done it. You let the air out of 2 tyres (they don't have 2 spares) But do not take the valves away thats theft. They don't park there again

Answer 2

I don't take disabled parking spaces, I useually have the problem of finding a parking bay and there are loads empty for the disabled. So we probably have to many marked out for the disabled.I still wait for a normal bay though.

Answer 3

I have found that all of the people that misuse disabled bays are from

Ar**holes are us

Answer 4

Brett d & Schuutz one day you could be disabled and I hope you remember what you wrote here and are ashamed of what you wrote here.

don't you think that every one who has a blue disabled parking badge would gladly give them up to be healthy again.

Shame on you both.

Answer 5

some people think they are above the law

Answer 6

ill tell you y its cuz there are far to many disable parkin spaces and not enough normal peoples parkin spaces

Answer 7

Laws very from state to state. Your husband should have let her call the police. I will ticket and then tow any car not authorized a Handicap parking spot. The biggest problem is handicap parking abuse. People using the parking when the handicapped person is not in the car this again gets a ticket and towed. In Florida unless the parking spot is clearly marked and marked correctly with blue sign, lines and fine then it's courtesy and not law

Answer 8

It is because they do not understand what a person with a disability is going through and don care, in short stupidity.

Answer 9

i do not know, but that also ticks me off like nothing else! all it is is LAZINESS! so many people nowadays care about NOTHING other than themselves, and will do whatever it takes to meet their own "needs". It shows a complete disregard for others. I can't stand people like that. Those people are also the ones who cut in front of you in the grocery store line because they think they are better than you and shouldn't have to wait.

by the way, you CAN report people like that to the police, and they will get a BIG FAT ticket. next time, don't ask her to move, just call the cops and report her. i bet she won't park there again after having to pay a $150 parking ticket.

Answer 10

This really annoys me, i have found the same problem, but where i live, there is a car park who employs a warden, who constantly checks any car parked in a disabled bay without a valid blue badge and will give you a ticket if you park without displaying it. Although i do have a blue badge and displayed it, i got a ticket, for £80 beause as i shut the car door it blew off the dashboard onto the floor and i didn't notice it. As it wasn't properly displayed i had to pay up.  Maybe more car parks should take up this idea.

Answer 11

Many reasons for this. There are lazy people that just don't want to walk, there are people who think that because they are just "running inside for 5 minutes..." they can park there,  and there are the people who only think about themselves and their needs and nobody else...the "me generation." Sad when we run up against this type of person and it really is our duty to report them. Nobody likes to be a "tattle-tail" but the more people are allowed to get away with this type of behavior, the more it will persist. Next time, call the police, be sure to write down the license plate, make and model of the car and the time of day this happened just in case they leave before the police arrive. Some people have to learn the hard way before they change their ways.

Answer 12

I Disagree with brett d, My partner is disabled with Cronic heart Disease and we have to park near the store as walking is a lot of labour for him. He has had 5 heartattacks in total.

Disabled Parking should be monitered at all times as there are not a lot of spaces available. I DO NOT ever use my partners badge if he is not in the car purely because i am not disabled and the space is not intended for me. Clamp and Fine those whom do park in Disabled bays without showing a Blue Badge or those who Misuse the Blue Badge

Answer 13

I think people are either so lasy that they take the space because they can't be bothered to walk the extra distance or whatever.

Or they don't think that enough people who actually deserve the spaces with turn up to fill all the spaces and that taking up one of them can't hurt.

Also if you ask someone to move out of the space and they threaten to get the cops then let them call them because they were in the wrong

Answer 14

That is rude of someone.  Perhaps a ticket would teach a person like that!  I would never use a handicap parking spot unless I had to!

Answer 15

Hanging is too good for them.

Answer 16

will call the cops when they do and they will get a ticket. or report it to the store manager. I see people parking in fire lanes also and no one gets reported. People think that have the right to park where ever they want to. some day they building could be on fire and the fire engines wouldn't be able to park because some one blocked the fire lane. or some day a disabled person will get injured because they couldn't park close enough to the store so it wouldn't put stress on them. people just aren't being held for the actions when they do that. if they got enough fines they would stop. report it to the store next time. she could have had her car towed and fined for that. i would just report it next time.

Answer 17

Should have called the parking warden over to ticket and clamp her.