handicapped spaces

[red]

A friend of mine has a handicapped sticker or whatever it is for his car when he takes his mom places. She uses a walker on good days and a wheelchair on bad days. I think she has alzheimers as well.

So he uses the handicap sticker when he takes her to appointments and shit- parking in handicap spaces.

However, sometimes he also goes to the store to pick up a few things and leaves her in the car but he still parks in handicapped spaces.

I don't think he should and I told him if she is staying in the car he should use regular spaces as he is mobile. He got upset and said some shit and stormed out leaving his mom behind. An awkward silence followed until he returned to get her.

What do you think?

 

[oldjones]

A friend of mine has a handicapped sticker or whatever it is for his car when he takes his mom places. She uses a walker on good days and a wheelchair on bad days. I think she has alzheimers as well.

So he uses the handicap sticker when he takes her to appointments and shit- parking in handicap spaces.

However, sometimes he also goes to the store to pick up a few things and leaves her in the car but he still parks in handicapped spaces.

I don't think he should and I told him if she is staying in the car he should use regular spaces as he is mobile. He got upset and said some shit and stormed out leaving his mom behind. An awkward silence followed until he returned to get her.

What do you think?

The thoughtless way he treated his mother when he was angry with you is all the illustration you need of the thoughtless way he treats everyone when he abuses her parking privilege. 'Friend' seems a tad too strong a word for such a guy.

 

[GameBoy27]

The thoughtless way he treated his mother when he was angry with you is all the illustration you need of the thoughtless way he treats everyone when he abuses her parking privilege. 'Friend' seems a tad too strong a word for such a guy.

100% ^^^

I have too have an accessible parking permit for my Dad. When I take him to mall, I use the reserved spot to get his walker out, walk him to the front door then go back and move my car to a regular spot even though it's legal for me to leave my car there. Why, because it opens up the spot for someone who has a disability and is driving their own car.

red, your "friend" is simply abusing the permit and is a first class A.H.

 

[danmand]

A friend of mine has a handicapped sticker or whatever it is for his car when he takes his mom places. She uses a walker on good days and a wheelchair on bad days. I think she has alzheimers as well.

So he uses the handicap sticker when he takes her to appointments and shit- parking in handicap spaces.

However, sometimes he also goes to the store to pick up a few things and leaves her in the car but he still parks in handicapped spaces.

I don't think he should and I told him if she is staying in the car he should use regular spaces as he is mobile. He got upset and said some shit and stormed out leaving his mom behind. An awkward silence followed until he returned to get her.

What do you think?

Seems like he qualifies for a sticker for a mental handicap.

 

[destillat]

My brother-in-law had to get both knees replaced in his late 40s, and as a result he had (still has) a permit for years...
You'd be surprised how much abuse he has gotten using one of those spots... but when he was in rough shape he literally could not stand for more than a few minutes, or walk more than a hundred feet without taking a break.

 

[John Henry]

I too had one for my mother . I never used that spot if I dropped her off and picked her . The only time I used it was if she left the car with me parked in one of those spots . Too be honest here I felt like using that spot when I was by myself a few times but I never did . I would feel so guilty if I did that .

When mom passed away , the sticker had a few years left on it . I just tore it up and in the garbage it went . No chance of that sticker being abused by anyone borrowing my car .

 

[GameBoy27]

My brother-in-law had to get both knees replaced in his late 40s, and as a result he had (still hads a permit for years...
You'd be surprised how much abuse he has gotten using one of those spots... but when he was in rough shape he literally could not stand for more than a few minutes, or walk more than a hundred feet without taking a break.

The question is, does your brother still suffer pain when walking? If not, he shouldn't be parking in the reserved spots even though he still has the permit.

The way I look at it, if you go to the mall and are capable of walking around for an hour or two, you don't need to take up a reserved spot just because you have a permit. Leave those spots for the elderly and truly disabled. If you don't, then Karma just may get you in the end!

 

[MissCroft]

My brother-in-law had to get both knees replaced in his late 40s, and as a result he had (still hads a permit for years...
You'd be surprised how much abuse he has gotten using one of those spots... but when he was in rough shape he literally could not stand for more than a few minutes, or walk more than a hundred feet without taking a break.

Years ago, I had a very close friend who had a serious illness but looked perfectly healthy on the outside. He had a handicapped sticker and one evening we went out and a woman started yelling at him for parking in a handicapped space. He died five days later. I've always wanted to find that b**** and punch her out.

 

[destillat]

The question is, does your brother still suffer pain when walking? If not, he shouldn't be parking in the reserved spots even though he still has the permit.

The way I look at it, if you go to the mall and are capable of walking around for an hour or two, you don't need to take up a reserved spot just because you have a permit. Leave those spots for the elderly and truly disabled. If you don't, then Karma just may get you in the end!

After his knees healed up he is pretty much back to normal... well, as normal as you can be with two bionic knees...
He's a pretty honest guy, so if he still has the permit, he won't use it unless he needs it (he's got a conscience)... and when it expires I doubt it would be renewed.

 

[oldjones]

Years ago, I had a very close friend who had a serious illness but looked perfectly healthy on the outside. He had a handicapped sticker and one evening we went out and a woman started yelling at him for parking in a handicapped space. He died five days later. I've always wanted to find that b**** and punch her out.

When they yell, you might sweetly ask if they'd ever considered applying for a sticker because their mental handicap is so obviously severe.

'They must have a mental handicap,' is a good way to calm one's own impulse to imagine we're qualified to be Handicapped Parking Police, by one quick glance. I'll add new hips and knees to my list of disabilities we cannot see, being sighted but legally blind so you have to depend on a kind friend to drive is another.

 

[GameBoy27]

Years ago, I had a very close friend who had a serious illness but looked perfectly healthy on the outside. He had a handicapped sticker and one evening we went out and a woman started yelling at him for parking in a handicapped space. He died five days later. I've always wanted to find that b**** and punch her out.

What was his serious illness? It's true that many people have pain but look perfectly fine. The best thing to do would be to calmly explain the reason he was parking there. End of story.

 

[destillat]

Years ago, I had a very close friend who had a serious illness but looked perfectly healthy on the outside. He had a handicapped sticker and one evening we went out and a woman started yelling at him for parking in a handicapped space. He died five days later. I've always wanted to find that b**** and punch her out.

Some people are ignorant.
We were up at the cottage one day and we drove into town to have dinner... he parked in the handicap spot because he was in particular pain... So we get out of the car and walk in (a man in his late 40s and a man in his mid-30s)... some bitch accused him of 'faking his limp'. He pulled up his pant legs to show her his custom made knee braces.
He's too nice of a guy, so I told her to go fuck herself as she walked away.

 

[NorthernBear]

I have a permit too but my mother is not handicapped. She is disabled. Sorry but I just had to add a little bit of politically correctness to this thread. Most disabled persons do not like being called handicapped.

I have been viewed by police getting into my vehicle while parked in the disabled spot without my mother with me. The officer did nothing as long as I remained in the spot.
As soon as he saw my mother leave Wal-Mart with her purchases and her walker he assisted her across the driveway to our vehicle. He then told me that I was safe until I drove out of the space and then he would have pulled me over.
However, he did say that since she was in the mall, it would have been safe for me to leave the spot if I was going to go pick her up at another entrance. There is no proof that she did not enter at the door in which I originally parked.

So if you ever see someone who looks totally healthy leave a disabled spot please remember that the disabled person might be waiting for them elsewhere. There are a few cheats, but the cop told me that a majority of disabled spot users are legitimate.

 

[NorthernBear]

I have a friend that has a disabled plate for himself. He went to Bramalea City Centre and drove around the entire mall for 40 minutes until he found an empty disabled spot and then went into the mall.
The funny thing is that he did not go to the mall to shop. We went simply to walk around for exercise. And for that he spent 40 minutes on a gorgeous day looking for a spot close to the entrance so he would not have to walk across the parking lot.

 

[MissCroft]

What was his serious illness? It's true that many people have pain but look perfectly fine. The best thing to do would be to calmly explain the reason he was parking there. End of story.

He was waiting for a heart transplant. I tried to explain it to her but she just wanted to act like an ignorant b****. She yelled, "he looks fine to me!"



It's too bad that you can sometimes fix a heart but you can't fix stupid.

 

[Shades]

I use a Handicap sticker when I take my mother out, she moves slowly with a walker, and a fair amount of pain. When I have her out, parking near an entrance is important. I usually need to get her into the building and to where ever we are going as she can't handle stairs, or a step on her own, and gets shaky on any distance. So, unfortunately moving the car out of the spot once I have got her out, isn't an option.
One day, just as I was about to pull into a spot, a car wheeled in, right in front of me. I sat and watched and sure enough a young woman, chatting on a cell phone, hopped out, locked the car and headed for the door. I got out, called her back, politely pointed out the spot was designated....she stared at me like I crawled out from under a rock, and started to walk away. At that point, a mall cop in a cruiser came by, I called him over, he went after the girl........and got her to come back and move her car. She still didn't seem to care.......she had zero appreciation how important those spots are to some people.

 

[shrek71]

My mother (who is in her 70s now) used to have a handicapped parking sticker. She has rheumatoid arthritis in all her joints and along with constant pain, she can't walk any great distance. However when it came time to renew it a few years back, her doctor refuses stating that she wasn't using a cane or a walker. Go figure. I see people with seemingly no physical challenges parked in handicapped spots all the time. In fact there as a woman at the gym I used to go to that parked in the handicapped spot outside the front door of the place, did her workout out which included jogging on the treadmill for 30 minutes. That woman certainly certainly made me shake my head in disgust.

As to the OP, it is perfectly legal to park in the handicapped spots along as the person with the handicapped sticker is in the vehicle. Whether or not the driver leaves the car or not is of no consequence.

Cheers

 

[Smash]

Nothing new to me. I see lots of people parking in handicapped spots with their handicapped sign on their dashboard. These individuals are perfectly “normal” 100% able bodied.

I believe what folks do now a days is register their vehicle under their “handicapped” family members name so they can receive a handicapped sticker. Then the able bodied non-handicapped person drives the car 100% of the time to work, groceries, shopping etc.etc parking in handicapped spots.

My neighbour drives a Ford Edge with a handicapped sticker on the dash and he is perfectly “normal”... His 20 year old son walks with a slight limp as if he suffered a mild stroke. The son never drives the car. His father, mother and three brothers drive the car all the time and park in handicapped spots everywhere. I know because we live 5mins away from a Metro plaza and I always see their car parked in the handicapped spot even though it's the wife, father or kids shopping there. I have also seen his car at Crappy Tire just a few miles from our house. It was parked in a handicapped spot or course and the father was inside alone shopping.

Nothing new. This has been going on for a long time in the city. People taking advantage of the system for their own personal gain.

 

[MissCroft]

As to the OP, it is perfectly legal to park in the handicapped spots along as the person with the handicapped sticker is in the vehicle. Whether or not the driver leaves the car or not is of no consequence.

Yes, I believe this is true..if the disabled person is in the car, it should be legal. The person might want to (or have to in the case of an emergency) get out of the vehicle. I agree that people should not abuse the law though.

 

[KBear]

Seems with a disabled permit you can park at metered parking spots in Toronto, without paying a fee. One day I counted the cars on a street downtown with metered parking and fully half had permits. If day parking downtown is $25/day, could save about $6,000 per year if you can somehow get a permit and scam the system.