to love this disabled parking idea?

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Because of this issues with non-blue badge holders parking in disabled spaces some Swedish municipalities are now replacing the usual disabled parking signs with ones that include the words 'LAZINESS IS NOT A DISABILITY'. I love it :o

Awesome, love the idea, YANBU

yanbu x

Hehe that's great :)

I want one, I want one Now

It's brilliant

Do they do one for people who park in mother and baby spaces too? I don't know where I'd start on words for that one though! Drives me bonkers to see people park in them while I struggle on in a space miles away with my two kids.

Haha, cool

Reminds me of a line from the latest school play I did (US script so excuse the offensive terminology)

"Cranston! Your truck is in the handicapped parking bay, which is a spot we reserve for people with physical, not emotional, disabilities."

Does it actually make a difference though, I would have thought if someone had the brass neck to park in a disabled space with no blue badge in the first place then that wouldn't really bother them tbh, I saw my SIL park in one once because she was pregnant and had pelvic girdle pain, I said something along the lines of that sign to her and she was totally unfazed and didn't move.

I want one that says "Owning a BMW, Mec or other expensive car, clearly impedes your ability to read!"

I'm generally fairly laid back about these things, but seeing my Mum struggle across the Motorway services carpark on her crutches made me

Seeing the look of pain on my Dad's face watching her made me

Mum scarcely leaves the house it was a huge effort for her to go to my cousins wedding. These pricks couldn't walk 20 extra yards on their, no doubt, perfectly functioning legs.

Sunnier, I think you mean parent and child parking, not mother and baby (never seen one of those). Either way, they're a marketing tool to get you to go to supermarkets, they're not actually a legal requirement. Anybody who wants to can park in them. The same is not true of disabled spaces.

Also like 'Do you want the disability that goes with this space?'

That's great can we introduce them here.

While we're at it can we change parent and toddler ones? "It's not your parental right for one of these spaces, it's a courtesy space provided by X to encourage you to shop here. Everyone else is legally entitled to this space also. So don't get your judgy pants in a twist if you see someone else using this space"

I want one. Don't care if it doesn't make a difference, it would make me and dd1 feel better.
Sunnier
It's all been done here before.

I stand corrected. Thanks guys.

i do like it. but to stop it in a heartbeat they should have lockable posts with a special key, they have a special key for disabled toilets why not the same for parking.

Scarlett imagine having to stop your car, get your wheelchair out, assemble it, get in it, get to the pole, unlock it, get back in the car, fold wheelchair, drive into car park, get chair out .... you get the picture.

manic the thing is with your comment is people with emotional/mental issues used to get blue badges (unsure if they still do) it used to confuse me as I think as said it should be physical

Agree with MadMouse. Also the RADAR toliet keys can be brought by anyone. You just get the Vat back if your registered disabled. Anyway blue badges are forged so any keys could be as well.

oh good point. maybe remote control jobbys. i have seen them on fancy driveways. also if someone did park somehow they could be raised so they would be stuck an causing lots of damage

i didn't know that avacado. how is that right? i thought the keys where from the doctors, benefits people.

Apparently there is research showing that people who park in disabled spaces are statistically very likely to have criminal records. I'm sure I read somewhere one police force had a very successful weekend rounding up missing suspects by trawling all the local disabled spaces and checking car registrations. I wish it was a regular thing!

yes, I was advised by DD2s consultant to buy one. As although she isn't (yet) registered disabled she has mobility and coordination issues that a larger area to access the toilet would help her. The had rails are also good for her, coupled with her independance they felt she would benefit from using the disabled loos.

I haven't yet though as shes still small enough to cope on a standard toilet cubical at the moment and will let me help.

There isn't actually such thing as registered disabled. It seems to imply people who receive some sort of disability related benefits.

Was there once such a thing as 'registered disabled' or is it completely made up?

There are some with invisible disabilities, like MS, ME and fibromyalgia (sp?), who already get stick for laziness/scrounging

I think a system like the radar key should be introduced, maybe a sensor fitting to the front and back of a car and then the barrier will go down