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Blue Badge Abuse
Manicminer:
Get yourself a yellow strap, and use it :wink:
the loon:
--- Quote from: "defuzz" ---as far as I know though, tesco etc car parks are private land and there is nothing to stop you parking in disabled bays/child bays (besides irate pensioners and mothers!!)
My local asda got some disability friendliness award a while back because their trolley staff approached non-disabled people etc and politely asked them not to park there.
--- End quote ---
theres a big shopping centre between plymouth and exeter in devon that employeed a guy to patrol the disabled bays and stop people who where not entitled to park there.
My dad used to have an orange badge before he passed away (this was some time ago) and was speaking to the guy one day and asked him if he ever got any abuse/agro and not a day went by with out him getting thretened or getting abused by idiots trying to park in disabled bays when not entitled
hobbit:
It can be an on going thing, on private land the supermarkets wont normally do anything to enforce their markings
But on a public highway around here in nottingham if there is a disabled bay and someone parks in it with out a badge they will be ticketed, I once forgot to display mine with my father, and had a ticket when we got back :oops:
They were ok about it though, I explained to the guy who gave me the ticket, and he told me to contact the number on the ticket, did that later explained the mistake and they took the badge number then told me that they would waive the charge and sent a letter out to confirm this
tenpolequint:
The trouble might be because there are so a high proportion of disabled parking bays to normal parking spaces and people get fed up with this. Then unfairly the disabled badge holders get the flak for this when its not their fault but I guess government rules.
ChrisW:
If that's not enough, there's also the Blue Peter badge abuse - shocking!
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