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To ask all disabled drivers to do the following?

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QuiQuaiQuod · 15/08/2017 16:17

We shouldnt have to, of course, but:

EVERY single time you go to a car park- supermarket/shopping centre etc, to complain EVERY single time to the security/help button on the ticket machine/supermarket etc .

You know what Im talking about.

Those bloodyselfish disablist C*s who park in disabled spaces. every time.

just this morning, went early to the superkarket. car park hardly used. very few cars there. a W* in a BMW pulls into the disabled bay next to mine, and JOGS into the coffee shop there . Still there when we came out of supermarket. no badge.

I go back to supermarkt (takes me ages with my mobility issues) to complain and the sucurity guy just shrugs. ''happens all the time. we issue tickets sometimes. nothing we can do. '' I said ''you have noticessaying disabled ONLY.

an elderly person heard our exchange and came up and joined in. he said he has a blue badge and hes fed up when he goes out and all the disabled bays are taken with only half of them with blue badges displayed and he cant get a space. he said he blocked someone in once and they , on coming back to their blocked car, didnt listen to him saying they were breaking the law doing that,(punched him through his open windowdamaged his car , and the police just didnt bother to take him seriously.

anyway.

pleaswe, if you have a blue badge, just complain, EVERY SINGLE TIME till hopefully they get the message.

its not about fines, half of them arent paid anyway, why cant their cars be towed away immediatley,? and pay a much huger fine.

bloody selfish and lazy.

on a slightly smaller note, the parentys/nannies/guardians who park in P&C spaces when their kids arent even in the car, their at school/nursery etc but just cos theyve got a car seat......

boils my piss almost more than enything else.

Disabled and elderly people are NOTHING to the ''powers that be''.

OP posts:
manhowdy · 15/08/2017 16:55

user1492692527 My brother got a blue badge when he was being treated for Leukaemia. So they're definitely available for those having chemo - though I am not sure how many people realise it and apply.

QuiQuaiQuod · 15/08/2017 16:58

And we were YEARS trying to get a BB, we werent disabled enough it seems for a long time, but now I have the top PIP, now I can, but I NEVER parked in a disabled bay all those years, i wouldnt have dremt of it, even though I really struggled to get out of the car in a 'normal' space.

also,shops are so wanting the custom that they put squeeze as many bays as they can in most places and cars have got bigger but the bays havent.

still no excuse though.

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peachgreen · 15/08/2017 16:59

The people on Mumsnet who queue up to defend those who misuse disabled spaces absolutely baffled me.

If you don't have a badge, don't use the space.

If you need a badge and don't have one, get one.

If you believe that temporary conditions should qualify for a temporary badge then campaign for that to happen. (I'll join you!)

AwaywiththePixies27 · 15/08/2017 17:00

Yes we can read thankyou saucy. The responses are in reply yo the poster saying he can't be disabled if he can jog.

Which astoundingly is still standing Confused

Libitina · 15/08/2017 17:00

The OP clearly said in her OP that Jogging Coffee Man DIDN'T have a blue badge

Obviously the OP must have meant that Jogging Coffee Man DIDN'T display a blue badge. She couldn't possibly know that he didn't have one.

MaisyPops · 15/08/2017 17:00

The issue is the lack of no blue badge displayed, not the fact that the person jogged.

It WBU to assume based on someone's apparnetly mobility if they are disabled or not.
YANBU to expect people to display a blue badge if they're parking in a disabled bay / not use them if people don't have a blue badge.

squoosh · 15/08/2017 17:01

Why? I'm disabled. I don't have a BB.

Because if he didn't have a blue jog and he was jogging the evidence would lean towards 'not disabled'. It's not as though able bodied people parking in disabled bays is such a rare occurrence that it’s difficult to believe.

lazyarse123 · 15/08/2017 17:02

I work in a small shop and we have one disabled space and two other spaces in front and six behind shop. The number of entitled arseholes who park in disabled space without a badge and others who block each other in because they can't be arsedto walk round shop is astonishing. I always tell them if I see them. It's usually white van man who is "only going to be a minute". Doesn't matter don't fucking do it.

LurkingHusband · 15/08/2017 17:02

Generally, parking providers couldn't give a toss about the abuse of blue badge spaces.

(Specific exemption for Sainsburys (or their parking operator), who I have seen actively ticket abusing cars).

And why should they ? It doesn't hurt them if people abuse BB spaces.

Personally I would like to see it made a criminal offence to abuse or damage facilities provided under the DDA. With castration by rusty knife as the only punishment.

It might have stopped the **s who smashed the wheelchair lift to our local library (which of course hasn't been replaced for 8 years die to cutbacks).

I've noticed the worst serial abusers are delivery or trade vans. And having gone through a spate of photographing and posting on the firms twitter feed, I can tell you they aren't bothered either.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 15/08/2017 17:04

Because if he didn't have a blue jog and he was jogging the evidence would lean towards 'not disabled

No it wouldn't. Confused

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squoosh · 15/08/2017 17:05

No it wouldn't.

It really does.

QuiQuaiQuod · 15/08/2017 17:06

May I stress Im foccussing on the lack of display of a BB, I said about the jogging man as he was AFAIK totally able bodied, just too lazy to park about 4 yards away from the disabled bays.

if he had gone jogginginto the coffee shop but had a BB on his car, I prob wouldnt even have given it a second thought, as I know about hidden disablilies.

anyway, not disappearing, but have to take my medication now and see to disabled DC. will tune in tomorrow, and Im glad that HQ are on top of this thread and deleting the disablists.

thanks for reporting, whoever is.

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TheSolitaryBoojum · 15/08/2017 17:07

If you are disabled and din't have a bb, you shouldn't park in a bb space. Whether you can jog or not.

SaucyNoBrainer · 15/08/2017 17:08

Some people weren't reading it, whoever posted to me I can't be arsed to scroll up

maxthemartian · 15/08/2017 17:10

squoosh I must agree with you.
Although one can't know anything for definite the balance of probabilities would strongly suggest that someone sans blue badge jogging into the shop is not disabled.

Andrewofgg · 15/08/2017 17:11

No way the supermarkets can tow them. Not legally on. They can "fine" them but if they don't pay it's not enforceable.

SaucyNoBrainer · 15/08/2017 17:12

I love people with really apt user name Grin

krispmallow · 15/08/2017 17:13

I hate using my blue badge as it is (young with 3 kids, do not "look" remotely disabled) and avoid using the bays where possible so I can avoid any possible confrontation and probably lose my shit.

Genuinely have no idea how people without a badge can park in them without any thought or fear

GahBuggerit · 15/08/2017 17:17

Watching with interest as my mum is apparantly not disabled enough to warrant a blue badge but often can't get out my car without great pain if there is one next to us, and walking on concrete exacerbates an issue she has with her hip. The customer services at our local supermarket said we can use one of the disabled bays as they are right next to the entrance when we go as long as I let them know as soon as we get there, presumably so they know not to issue a ticket?

AwaywiththePixies27 · 15/08/2017 17:18

It really doesn't.

Being able to jog does not mean you are not disabled.

My son came first in the school sports race. It doesn't mean he doesn't have autism.

How do you explain all the paralympians then? By that logic they are all no longer disabled too.

krispmallow · 15/08/2017 17:21

Gah if your mum was deemed not disabled enough after a PIP assessment, I very strongly recommend requesting a copy of your case notes and appealing. I had to as I wasn't deemed disabled enough and successfully appealed after seeing the absolute state of my case notes.

TheSolitaryBoojum · 15/08/2017 17:21

I was thinking if a friend who has a bb precisely because her autistic son can do 0-100mph from a standing start with no sense of his surroundings!

ALemonyPea · 15/08/2017 17:23

I take my SIL shopping every Monday. I park in the BB spot, then get out the car and jog to the store to get her a wheeelchair (easier than taking her beast in and out the car). I've been stopped a handful of times by other BB users and told off for using the spot. They usually apologise when I point out I'm getting a wheelchair for the disabled person in the car.

So op, some people do complain and some do pull those who they deem not disabled.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 15/08/2017 17:24

Watching with interest as my mum is apparantly not disabled enough to warrant a blue badge but often can't get out my car without great pain if there is one next to us, and walking on concrete exacerbates an issue she has with her hip

Well. As long as she never skips or jogs in GahBuggerIt she'll be fine. Hmm