How Low can you get!!

G/Day , MM.....To Day To Night news over here,..I know they rave on about everything and anything,.. But it does look like you can purchase a permit for a price,....A great benefit for some inner city workers!, where parking is a total pitta!,...Getting my drift!


Cheers Axle.

Blood oath Wilko!!,.... Its hard to believe whats going on in this great country these days!,....Makes you think how long it will be a great country??.


Cheers Axle.

Yep.....see 'em every day. Park in disabled carpark, many sporting disabled sticker. Driver (very able) gets out, walks to letter box, shop, bottle'o etc, does their bit then back in and gone???
When I see this take place, I always make a point of looking at the sticker, and then challenging the very abled driver, (can't help me'self), who on most occasions, tells me to go back to a place I have heard of, but can't find on any map, with persons there to whom I don't recall knowing as relatives :-))) but apparently these rectums of human society know better. More of the DILLIGAF society of oxygen wasters we support :-(

Good post Axle.

Fred.

Perhaps before you begin challenging the seemingly able bodied persons using the disabled parking bays you should do a bit of research and acquaint yourself with exactly what a disabled parking permit covers. There is more to it than the noticable physical impairments that qualify a person for a permit and by challenging persons without knowing their medical history could see you yourself on the wrong side of the law
Jon

Jon, I think that well bowled bouncer, went waaaay over your head, straight through to the keeper.

You are reading way too much into this very common problem.

In plain English, we are talking about people who very obviously are not impaired in ANY way. Should I talk a bit slower ????

Fred.

Let me elaborate if I may.

I know of a bloke who, because he has a disabled daughter, has a valid permit and drives a vehicle with a disabled access ramp, high roof, etc.
All very legal, but he abuses the permit every day.

He drives to work alone and parks in a disabled space, because it is more convenient for him and the space is always there for him.
It is his daughter who is supposed to be disabled, not him.

Bill,


all you need to do is ring the Council and inform them of this situation. It is quite a hefty fine here in SA

Jack, we don't need TDTN to let us in on the secret. Happens every day.

Fred.

MH Love it.



Fred

Need a few with that attitude to sort some of then out MH!!.......LOL..LOL.


Cheers Axle.

I had a motor cycle accident a few years ago, broke my back and pelvis amongst other things, I needed a disability permit until I learnt to walk properly again. It doesnt bother me anymore to see able bodied people take up disabled parking spaces because the number of times I went to the shops and all the disabled parking spaces were taken up by able bodied elderly people making me park all the way up the back and use my walking sticks to get to the shops. I make the assumption (I very well may be wrong) that the originator of this post is in fact an elderly person who has a disabled permit that is often in the position I frequently was. I am 34 and now able bodied, I dont mind walking from all the way up the back as it reminds me when I could barely do it all. If people can buy permits so they can park close to the shops, good luck if you can get away with it. Your arms and legs arn't painted on, start using them.

My 2 cents

I get annoyed about parking permits every day
My wife Barbara has one because of her emphycema/asthma, heart desease & 2 mechanical valves in her heart etc
I have one because of my Rhumitoid & osteo arthritis I also had a stroke a while back
I now take pics on my phone of people who park in parking spots without a permit,and pass it on the the local counsil
I do challenge people who don't have a sticker and you cant believe the excuses they give
my favorite is "I'm on a pension I don't need a sticker to park here"
or
I'm only going to be a min I'll be out of here b4 a disabled person need it " & my reply is i need it & now
A releif chef that use to come in and help out from hotel in the group,his wife works with disabled people & i saw him park in her car in a disabled parking spot at the shops
I asked him what he was doing he said i have the sticker i may as well use it when i can
I told him if i caught him using it again without a disabled person in the car i would report him & his wife could loose the sticker to do her job with.Harsh i know but he isn't entitled /
Before I had a disabled sticker i would never have given it a second thought to park in a disabled parking spot
Maybe it was the way i was brought up,respecting others
Warren

Hi Warren,

Spot on mate, would never think to park in one myself either.
Peter

If council issues an infringment, do you get a "spotters fee" for the photo? Would be a nice incentive seing how much councils make from parking infringments.

@Tony
Spot on! Too often the driver is taken as the 'owner' of the permit....it may well be the passenger. Sometimes the able-bodied driver parks [with displayed permit] to pick up the 'owner' who is shopping.

I work @ a shopping centre & see this issue everyday......now "Parents with prams"...that can get seriously nasty...

eng hoe

Hi all,

This is certainly a topic that gets the adrenaline going with many people - and I can't say I'm immune, either - but all too often people may not understand the circumstances of a particular situation.

Some years ago, I had the interesting experience of transporting a seriously disabled 90-year old aunt to a restaurant. She had never driven a vehicle of any kind in her life and therefore, in her mind, had no need for a disabled parking permit. There was no area available for passenger pick-up anywhere near the door of the restaurant.

Now, this person could barely walk, and then only with a great deal of pain - the kind that'd make you and me want to just curl up and die. What would YOU do in those circumstances? Let me tell you, I broke the law! And I'd do it again tomorrow, without a second thought, if the same circumstances were to apply.

On the other hand, my wife has had a partial knee replacement and is in quite constant pain with that and the myriad of other aches and pains that inflict themselves on most of us as we get older. Despite the fact that a half-hour on her feet makes walking back to the car after a visit to the shopping centre a really painful struggle for her, she does not have a permit and we do not use disabled parking spaces.

All that having been said, one of the guys from our church with a legitimate need for a permit, parked in a disabled space with his permit displayed, left his vehicle for around 30 minutes with his window down just a hand's breadth and returned to discover that his permit had been stolen from his dashboard.

Let me give you a strong tip - THAT's low!!!

Regards,


Charlie