Non disabled parking in disabled bays
Posted by: Clint Marchant
20th Apr 2012 09:38pm
What is with these people that park in disabled bays when clearly they are not disabled, (unless it's mental) now this used to be a serious pet hate of mine and if you didn't have a ACROD parking permit and you were in a disabled bay I would let one tyre down just enough to inconvience them, trouble is that used to take a long time, enter plan b, a pair of side cutters and cut the valve off, the tyre deflates very rapidly the main thing here is to inconvenience as a new valve is only about $10 dollars, now I'm in a wheelchair I tend to hang around and humilate them am I wrong to be doing this
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Comments 5
MandMm
It's kind of people not keeping left on multi lane roads when they aren't overtaking, or people stopping in the middle of the walkway completely oblivious to the fact they are blocking the walkway.
I have used disabled toilets when I can't find the other toilets. I haven't ever used a disabled parking space, but would consider parking in one without a permit if it was an emergency, or I was taking someone who was extreemely ill or temporarily handicapped to something urgent.
I guess there's always inconsiderate people around doing inconsiderate things, and unfortunately it's no one's job to tell them off, and sabotaging their cars, or pointing and yelling at them is not going to stop them doing it. If you are going to have a word to them, a polite "excuse me, you should have a permit to park in that space" is forward enough and the right way to go about it.
Clint Marchant
Sorry Bec reply was for MandM
Clint Marchant
Bec I did try the note on the screen but they just screw it up and throw it on the ground(littering) and mumble that they can park wherever they want the whole idea is to inconviencence them and do you know what they very rarely re-offend so it works for me
Anonymous
maybe letting there tyres down isn't technically right but I have to admit I have been tempted to do this on many occasions to I'm not disabled myself but I have family members who are and it's very inconvenient to find that all the disabled parking spaces are taken by a majority of people who aren't disabled another annoyance is trying to find a parents with prams parking and they're all taken by people who have no kids and are just plain lazy maybe don't let the air out of the tyres but do what I do and stick not so nice notes on they're windscreens and keep with the sticking around to inconvenience them because you dont want to end up in a load of trouble for letting air out of the tyres and if you pick on the wrong person and get caught that is a likely outcome
Clint Marchant
Bec87 I know where you are coming from but who has the time and patients to wait for them to return from a shopping trip