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The worst parked vehicle thread !!
discomummy:
Hi,
i carry a disabled sticker in my bag for when my aged father is in my car - he has parkinsons, ischaemic heart disease and a few other choice ailments. he is now finding it difficult to walk, altho' he looks spritely enuf, i get snotty at people parking in disabled spots without badges- and suggest that their disability may be mental :lol:
the best one that my dad did was when he still drove and had his disabled badge. he went to a car park and lo and behold a car sans badge in the disabled spot. there was a policeman there, so dad pointed this out. the policeman suggested that dad parked behind him and block him in, go do his shopping and not hurry back.
when dad returned, there was a bloke absolutely steaming and a smug looking copper the bloke had returned, found dad's car in the way and collared the copper about the bad parking - to which the copper pointed out that he was in a disabled bay with no permit and promptly ticketed him. the bloke then had to wait for dad to return as the copper kept wandering around so he couldn't move dad's car out of the way!
i bet that is one bloke who never parked in a disabled bay again
regards
ela
Bunnie:
used to have a smilar problem when i was @ uni... My friend who i attended with we car shared and she is regestered disabled and cant walk long distances... we got moaned @ by one lot to students to which they got showed the badge... they soon shut up
ne way back too the bad parking :D
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: "discomummy" ---the best one that my dad did was when he still drove and had his disabled badge. he went to a car park and lo and behold a car sans badge in the disabled spot. there was a policeman there, so dad pointed this out. the policeman suggested that dad parked behind him and block him in, go do his shopping and not hurry back.
when dad returned, there was a bloke absolutely steaming and a smug looking copper the bloke had returned, found dad's car in the way and collared the copper about the bad parking - to which the copper pointed out that he was in a disabled bay with no permit and promptly ticketed him. the bloke then had to wait for dad to return as the copper kept wandering around so he couldn't move dad's car out of the way!
i bet that is one bloke who never parked in a disabled bay again
regards
ela
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Excellent, though I bet there's the chance that your dad could have been done for Obstruction if it was on the public highway??
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---
--- Quote from: "discomummy" ---the best one that my dad did was when he still drove and had his disabled badge. he went to a car park and lo and behold a car sans badge in the disabled spot. there was a policeman there, so dad pointed this out. the policeman suggested that dad parked behind him and block him in, go do his shopping and not hurry back.
when dad returned, there was a bloke absolutely steaming and a smug looking copper the bloke had returned, found dad's car in the way and collared the copper about the bad parking - to which the copper pointed out that he was in a disabled bay with no permit and promptly ticketed him. the bloke then had to wait for dad to return as the copper kept wandering around so he couldn't move dad's car out of the way!
i bet that is one bloke who never parked in a disabled bay again
regards
ela
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Excellent, though I bet there's the chance that your dad could have been done for Obstruction if it was on the public highway??
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That's the biggest problem... most disabled bays (at supermarkets etc) are on private land so no offence commited. Despite site owners having the power in England (where the don't in Scotland) to clamp, in general they refuse to do so due to danger of being sued for damage caused to vehicles.
I had a long conversation with my local Sainsbury's manager and he agreed to instigate a public humiliation message over the tannoy... something along the lines of...
--- Quote ---We endevour to provide high quality services for ourt customers, one of these services is dedicated bays for disabled parking. These bays are provided for disabled badge holders only. Would the owner of car registration XXXX please return to their car and remove it from the disabled parking area.
--- End quote ---
It's an imporvement on the origonal message, has potential to embarress & humiliate and acts as a reminder to others who may lapse into this bad habit.
Skibum
Range Rover Blues:
Personally I dont see why parent and child spaces should take precedence over everyone else. I can understand why they need to be wider, to stop the sometimes ignorant owners damaging other people's cars because they are too engrossed in what they are doing to give a damn (and we let these people drive?) but why the hell should they be next to the door? perhaps if they were at the far end of the carpark the kids would get the exercise they needed once in a while without running around the store making a nuisance of themselves.
Seriously though, what really annoys me is when the parent and child spaces are next to the door and the disabled spaces are not. One big chain pub has opend near us and thre diabled spaces are round the back. What use is that?
Parent and child? it's a PUB for crying out loud.
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