To ask what disability a person could have

[Margomyhero]

to park outside the gym and run 30 minutes on the treadmill?

I am genuinely curious about this one.

I got out of my car and parked in a car park near the leisure centre. It's a LOT cheaper than the car park in the leisure centre grounds. As I locked up and headed towards the leisure centre I saw a young man park in the disabled space and get out and go the same way as me.

He went on the treadmill and ran for 30 minutes. I know that as I was doing the same.

So - before I judge him unfairly what disability which warrants a blue badge could this man have which would allow him to run for 30 minutes - after sprinting up the 2 flights of stairs to get there?

Was he a genuine recipient of disabled space parking or was he just avoiding paying the charge (which by the way is 5p for the first hour ).

Tammy Usually parking in a disabled bay with a genuine blue badge and you are not the holder, you are issued a PCN and the badge is confiscated. Which is why I should imagine not many BB holders would let family/friends use it, to many it’s a life line. Or maybe some don’t even understand the correct use themselves. 89 year old Doris for example might think it’s fine to let her relative pop to the shop for her.

Local Authorities are all about money. Misuse of genuine BB’s, costs them money. Hence the focus on this minority of misuse and no other.

14,000 BB’s were lost or stolen last year. Local authorities really couldn’t give a toss about these. They cost the local Authority nothing. Yet this is by far the bigger inconvenience for genuine BB holders, with regard to parking in disabled bays.

I've read the first post and I'm not going to bother reading any further. A very judgmental and thoughtless question.