Page 6 | Blue badge police again

Rainburstflowers · 2025-04-11T08:00:23+00:00

Name changes for this as I do every so often. I have blue badge but my disability is not visible. For the 3rs time in 2 weeks I have been challenged about not looking disabled and I am fed up of explaining myself yesterday got out the car and this man came charging towards me shouting “oi you don’t have a blue badge”. I sighed and said “yes I do”. He then said “where did you nick that from?” I said “I didn’t nick it from anyone I got it off eBay” He then looked at me and said “oh right and walked off” as if that was then ok!!!! or it could be my built like a brick shithouse husband opened his door and got out the drivers seat. I know I should not have said the eBay comment but I am fed up of explaining myself. if anyone has any good comebacks please let me know

Reginald123 · 11/04/2025 12:05

I have a BB but in my village I don't look old enough to justify one.

Angry glare
Shake of head
Eyebrow raised

One crutch extracted from the car
Then the second crutch appears
Followed by me

At this point I normally get a little nod of approval - I may not have met the age test for a BB but the wonky walk gives me a pass.

I have yet to try telling someone:

"it's a miracle , I must have been cured by your glare/ look, I will tell the neurologist , ditch the crutches and morphine and get you set up as an NHS consultant as you would soon sort out the problems in the NHS"

I may just try it one day ....

RejoiceandSing · 11/04/2025 12:06

PoppyTheGuineaPig · 11/04/2025 11:58

Ah, I see. It's weird they do it that way.

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Would you like to pop your photo ID on display on your dashboard?

GoldBeautifulHeart · 11/04/2025 12:08

Dotjones · 11/04/2025 10:00

I think this thread shows you just can't win. The BBP no doubt take their imaginary authority too far sometimes in the same way the real police do, but if nobody challenges fraudulent BB users then that makes it more difficult for genuine users to park. The BBP are just doing a lower scale version of a citizen's arrest, they believe they are justified and accept the risk of a punch in the mouth. That some innocent people get falsely accused is just collateral damage, in the same way some innocent people end up arrested and even convicted and imprisoned for offences they didn't commit.

Maybe the best thing would be to scrap the blue badge scheme entirely, then the problem of the BBP goes away.

Wtf??????

RB68 · 11/04/2025 12:11

Its none of anyones business other than the authorities or the person whose badge it is - the way its often challenged is crude, rude and often aggressive. It liturally is none of their business

A friend of mine uses the line

"Sorry, where exactly did you say your medial degree was from"
" would you care to sign an NDA if I reveal my personal private medical information to you?"
"Have you got any ID please, I need to see who you are and understand your medical history if we are sharing"

EveryKneeShallBow · 11/04/2025 12:14

I sympathise with the blue badge holders on this thread. However, and I fully agree I am being unreasonable here:

I will shortly need an organ transplant. If/when I get one, I will be on huge quantities of medication and need to travel to the hospital three times a week minimum, possibly daily. There is no non disabled parking at the hospital, it is 17 miles from my home and I’m not allowed to use public transport (immunocompromised). I don’t qualify for a blue badge because I’m not permanently disabled. This is very frustrating and at the moment means I cannot be listed for an organ because I can’t promise to meet the post surgery requirements. I don’t have family who can take time out of work to drive me every few days. Apparently, there’s only volunteer drivers for old people or, again, permanently disabled ones.

GoldBeautifulHeart · 11/04/2025 12:14

ExtraOnions · 11/04/2025 10:21

Blue Badges should be there for people who need to park closer to the facility. There are lots of reasons for this, some are not visible.

There are also people who have a Blue Badge who do not need to park closer to the facility, but do park there, because they have a Blue Badge.

There are also people who fraudulently use badges - either the disabled person is not with them, or they have bought a dodgy one.

The only people who lose out in any of this are disabled people who need to be parked close to the facility, often for mobility issues.

i knew someone who had a Blue Badge because they were deaf .. no mobility issues.. couid have left a space free for a wheelchair users, but didn’t.

So now you're policing people who legitimately need them because they aren't disabled enough? Wow you ableist fecker. GTFOTT.

dimsiaradcymraeg · 11/04/2025 12:14

Tessasanderson · 11/04/2025 09:44

I can never understand blue badge holders moaning about this. Can they not see that the person doing the asking is trying to protect the blue badge holders right to that space?

In the current society there are not many people who will actually put themselves out for whats right and wrong. See someone getting beaten up, turn away. See someone stealing, turn away. See someone parking in a disabled space to protect their Range Rover, turn away.

So once in a while they get it wrong and ask someone with a not obvious disability if they are genuine. Is that such a hardship for someone actually having some social concerns?

Or maybe they just start to wonder if its worth it, ignore it all and let blue badge holders cry about lack of parking in future because no one gives a stuff.

If you’ve got a blue badge, then you can park in the space. End of. No questions needed as the badge speaks for itself. Why on earth do people think they can take it upon themselves to question the validity of a blue badge. Utterly disgraceful.

AgnesX · 11/04/2025 12:19

Tessasanderson · 11/04/2025 09:44

I can never understand blue badge holders moaning about this. Can they not see that the person doing the asking is trying to protect the blue badge holders right to that space?

In the current society there are not many people who will actually put themselves out for whats right and wrong. See someone getting beaten up, turn away. See someone stealing, turn away. See someone parking in a disabled space to protect their Range Rover, turn away.

So once in a while they get it wrong and ask someone with a not obvious disability if they are genuine. Is that such a hardship for someone actually having some social concerns?

Or maybe they just start to wonder if its worth it, ignore it all and let blue badge holders cry about lack of parking in future because no one gives a stuff.

If they have a badge leave well alone and walk away. It's as easy as that.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 11/04/2025 12:20

Tessasanderson · 11/04/2025 10:15

So much anger towards posters who essentially are trying to say that we wish it was straightforward and BB users got to park without any issues, without any questions etc etc. That would be lovely for all concerned.

Happy to leave you to your anger. I was trying to offer support and a slightly different angle on the issue of someone asking. Oh well, not my battle

Do you want to explain why you think people with blue badges should have to discuss their private medical history with strangers in public, just to defend their rightful use of a blue badge, @Tessasanderson?

Plenty of people have made this point.

Ohthatsabitshit · 11/04/2025 12:25

EveryKneeShallBow · 11/04/2025 12:14

I sympathise with the blue badge holders on this thread. However, and I fully agree I am being unreasonable here:

I will shortly need an organ transplant. If/when I get one, I will be on huge quantities of medication and need to travel to the hospital three times a week minimum, possibly daily. There is no non disabled parking at the hospital, it is 17 miles from my home and I’m not allowed to use public transport (immunocompromised). I don’t qualify for a blue badge because I’m not permanently disabled. This is very frustrating and at the moment means I cannot be listed for an organ because I can’t promise to meet the post surgery requirements. I don’t have family who can take time out of work to drive me every few days. Apparently, there’s only volunteer drivers for old people or, again, permanently disabled ones.

Surely the hospital will provide a pass for you? Certainly that is what happens at my local hospital. I would contact the transplant team.

Lulu89x · 11/04/2025 12:26

Showerflowers · 11/04/2025 09:43

out for the day with my son and dil a few years back. DIL Pulled into a disabled parking space and put my blue badge up. Then she got out with my son to unload my wheelchair ready for me to get out the back. Before she’d even got to the boot we had a blue badge police person shouting at her. Now DIL was in her gym gear but I don’t think anyone should approach anyone. Anyway before DIL could explain that I’m the disabled person my son decides to burst into song opera style and attempted to do the splits for this person.

they slowly slunk away from my strange son lol.

LOL this actually just made me spit out my coffee!!!

MerlinsBeard1 · 11/04/2025 12:28

My mum has a blue badge but has never encountered this as you are supposed to display it in the dash when you use a disabled spot. You'd have to be a special type of weirdo to see a blue badge and still say something! Woe betide to anyone who tried this with my mum!

EveryKneeShallBow · 11/04/2025 12:30

Ohthatsabitshit · 11/04/2025 12:25

Surely the hospital will provide a pass for you? Certainly that is what happens at my local hospital. I would contact the transplant team.

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Well, they told me I’d just have to find someone to drive me, so no, not really.

LokiDoki75 · 11/04/2025 12:33

BeyondMyWits · 11/04/2025 09:08

I just use

"Feel free to report me to the department of not looking disabled enough."

I am saving that one for future use!

PluckyBamboo · 11/04/2025 12:35

Going back a few years ago, my young work colleague who had 2 toddlers was diagnosed with incurable cancer and lost all her hair due to treatment etc. She parked in a disabled bay in our local Tesco store and was set upon by a group of old ladies for not looking disabled.

Quick as a flash she pulled her wig off and shouted at them, "don't worry, I'll be dead soon and these kids will be without a Mother, hope that makes you happy". Hopefully that outburst shamed them enough to never try and publicly humilate people again. And yes, she did pass away a few months later.

waxymoron · 11/04/2025 12:36

ExtraOnions · 11/04/2025 10:21

Blue Badges should be there for people who need to park closer to the facility. There are lots of reasons for this, some are not visible.

There are also people who have a Blue Badge who do not need to park closer to the facility, but do park there, because they have a Blue Badge.

There are also people who fraudulently use badges - either the disabled person is not with them, or they have bought a dodgy one.

The only people who lose out in any of this are disabled people who need to be parked close to the facility, often for mobility issues.

i knew someone who had a Blue Badge because they were deaf .. no mobility issues.. couid have left a space free for a wheelchair users, but didn’t.

You genuinely can't think why a deaf person mat need to be away from (unhearable to them) noise? How tragic

Funnywonder · 11/04/2025 12:37

You just need to ignore them. You only have to see some of the ignoramuses on here to know that some people (a) aren’t capable of minding their own business or (b) think they know more than they actually do. My son has Crohn’s Disease and is entitled to use a toilet for disabled people. But it has a picture of a stick person in a wheelchair on the door, so some people seem to believe that nobody else is permitted to use it. I don’t bother my arse explaining. If my son is bursting to do a wee he has to go into the general toilets like anyone else, but if he is having a flare up, then it’s probably in everyone’s interests if he can access a single occupancy toilet pretty damn quick.

housethatbuiltme · 11/04/2025 12:38

We use to get it too, apparently you can be 'too young' to be disabled. The amount of people that think 'Blue badge = OAP' is actually insane. As my mam use to point out 'being old isn't a disability'.

housethatbuiltme · 11/04/2025 12:40

MerlinsBeard1 · 11/04/2025 12:28

My mum has a blue badge but has never encountered this as you are supposed to display it in the dash when you use a disabled spot. You'd have to be a special type of weirdo to see a blue badge and still say something! Woe betide to anyone who tried this with my mum!

People see it and assume you have stolen them from your helpless granny and abandoned her at home.

Just like the OP said.

ohtowinthelottery · 11/04/2025 12:43

I was only ever challenged once when out with DD (whose blue badge it was). It was in the GP surgery (very spacious, and never full) car park, when I stepped out of the drivers seat of DD's Motability wheelchair accessible vehicle.
I'm afraid my response to the 'gentleman' busybody concerned was not particularly pleasant, but hopefully it cured him of his bad habit!

northerneast · 11/04/2025 12:44

MerlinsBeard1 · 11/04/2025 12:28

My mum has a blue badge but has never encountered this as you are supposed to display it in the dash when you use a disabled spot. You'd have to be a special type of weirdo to see a blue badge and still say something! Woe betide to anyone who tried this with my mum!

It’s not that people don’t think you have a badge, they just don’t think you should have a badge. As PPs have mentioned the elderly don’t tend to experience the same judgement.

toomuchfaff · 11/04/2025 12:46

Tessasanderson · 11/04/2025 09:44

I can never understand blue badge holders moaning about this. Can they not see that the person doing the asking is trying to protect the blue badge holders right to that space?

In the current society there are not many people who will actually put themselves out for whats right and wrong. See someone getting beaten up, turn away. See someone stealing, turn away. See someone parking in a disabled space to protect their Range Rover, turn away.

So once in a while they get it wrong and ask someone with a not obvious disability if they are genuine. Is that such a hardship for someone actually having some social concerns?

Or maybe they just start to wonder if its worth it, ignore it all and let blue badge holders cry about lack of parking in future because no one gives a stuff.

they are not protecting the integrity of the disabled space, they are wanting the space themselves. It's not justice it's greed. Don't be fooled

Sharptonguedwoman · 11/04/2025 12:46

CatsWhiskerz · 11/04/2025 09:30

Taking notes as I've just got a blue badge, so far no one has challenged me ... so feeling a bit left out!
I'm storing up why 'report me to the doesn't look disabled enough office' ... brilliant 🤩

Me as well!

MerlinsBeard1 · 11/04/2025 12:47

housethatbuiltme · 11/04/2025 12:40

People see it and assume you have stolen them from your helpless granny and abandoned her at home.

Just like the OP said.

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Yeah, that's shocking! I suppose my mum hasn't been challenged as her mobility issues are visible.

whatapalarva · 11/04/2025 12:47

Love this comeback...
You don't look stupid either but you obviously are