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RE, Disabled Parking spaces - do you think this is wrong?

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LadyTambaOfTambaTown · 14/06/2006 21:28

Cause I do. But was laughed at for saying so!

Went out with friends last week adn we stopped off at Asda to use the cash point. She drives into a disabled spot so I say "Err you know you cant park here dont you?"

She says - "yes I can"

Me "but youre not disabled..."

Her "No but I have a friend who works for xxxx and they got me this" and produces a disabled badge.

She, nor any of her family are disabled and I thought she was taking the piss.

She thought that I should be impressed by her friend sneaking her a badge.

What do you think?

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misdee · 14/06/2006 21:52

i did just laugh at your 'misdee would kill you' hehe.

handlemecarefully · 14/06/2006 21:53

This is a no brainer. It is wrong, wrong, wrong.

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LadyTambaOfTambaTown · 14/06/2006 21:54

LOL Misdee, you were the first thing I thought of!

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misdee · 14/06/2006 21:56

cool hahaha.

i'll be on the look out for bay abusers this weekend, another overnight stay hopefully on saturday nightGrin

granarybeck · 14/06/2006 21:57

you should definitely report the organisation she works for, if on a larger scale is v serious.

granarybeck · 14/06/2006 21:57

you should definitely report the organisation she works for, if on a larger scale is v serious.

granarybeck · 14/06/2006 21:57

sorry, am cross but that was a mistake! have broke arm so am typing one handed

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LadyTambaOfTambaTown · 14/06/2006 21:58

All I know though is her first name, the area she lives in and that she does some IT stuff for the NHS.... Its not much to go on!

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wannaBe1974 · 14/06/2006 22:01

report her. and I would also go so far as to drop a little story into the local newspaper office as well saying that someone in the council has been issuing these badges fraudulantly - just so as it doesn't happen with anyone else.

nicnack2 · 14/06/2006 22:07

would go along with wannabe

clumsymum · 14/06/2006 22:08

I'm a badgeholder (legitimately) and I am appalled that she does this, much more so that she finds it funny. Sounds like she is a sad shallow person with no self-respect, much less any consideration for others.

If you contact the local council, with her registration number, they may try to do something, but if it wasn't issued officially, it's unlikely that they can do anything.

BTW it is VERY unlikely that she can get points cleaned off her driving licence, regardless of what she does in I.T.

I'd just decline to go anywhere in her company again, and encourage your other mates to do he same.

SparklyGothKat · 14/06/2006 22:20

sounds like its a fake disabled badge Shock I would shop her to police

wannaBe1974 · 14/06/2006 22:29

in fact publish her name on here and we'll all shop her to police, lol

swedishmum · 14/06/2006 22:32

How sad are some people? I know I get incensed at people using child bays without children but this is vile. Please land her in it - she desreves it.

Pixel · 14/06/2006 22:37

My son has a blue badge and I can honestly say that I have never once used it when he hasn't been with me.

This sort of thing makes my blood boil when there are genuine badge-holders around here who are too scared to use their badges because so many are being stolen and sold on.

eidsvold · 14/06/2006 22:52

absolutely gobsmacked - sorry but I would shop friend and if I knew the other friend who works for xxx would also shop them too.

I have a red badge for dd1 and I only use it when she is with me in the car or I can't get a park where she can safely walk to the building..... I realise there are others who have the blue badge and would need the parking more than me so if there are only a few left - reluctantly take them even though I am entitled to and dd1 needs to be safe - rather than collapsing in a heap from exhaustion or running off into traffic.

Absolutely horrified!!

Christie · 14/06/2006 22:55

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edam · 14/06/2006 23:00

She's a selfish, thoughtless cow. And if I were you I'd report her for using the badge illegally. I'm not usually one for dobbing people in but this is so cruel and arrogant it makes me see red. It's not a crime of desperation, is it, it's just greed.

saffy202 · 14/06/2006 23:00

I make car badges and in our office every badge is logged so the odd one can't go missing. We do have letters/phonecalls about people using the badges fraudently ie last week someone was apparently using their mother's who had died six months ago. We send out a letter warning said person that it is an offence and does carry a fine of £1000 if caught.

swedishmum · 14/06/2006 23:54

So I could use my mum's badge - she only died in Feb. Few months of free parking for me then ...

Er, wouldn't really do it.

warthog · 15/06/2006 14:20

it's revolting. please report her. she doesn't seem to realise that it's not acceptable. and i really doubt that she'd be able to wipe the points off her licence because she works in IT for the nhs. bolleaux

milward · 15/06/2006 14:22

not fair for those who are disabled

NomDePlume · 15/06/2006 14:23

Parking there as an able-bodied person without a blue badge is bad enough, but using a fraudulent blue badge is really, really grim.

Thomcat · 15/06/2006 14:28

I'm massively pissed off with that tbh. Sick, outrageos, wrong, wrong, wrong.

I fought really hard for mine. Was turned down and ended up going down there with Lottie in my arms and saying 'right well you carry her from the car to X and Y then, see how you'd cope'.

At points of trying to sort the badge I was in tears.

Shocked, disgusted, upset and sickened etc etc that she has one.

Does she want the disability to go with the badge? No, course not. She's justa lazy cow who is abusing the system.

Cappucino · 15/06/2006 14:31

I wouldn't shop her

I'd wait in a van round the corner from her office and shoot her as she went in