Thread: Disabled Parking WTF

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

It is nearly impossible to police, I regularly park in a blue spot in a car with a ticket, get out and walk away and receive angry stares, but what they dont know is I'm going to get the owner of the ticket....
hard to tell..

Same with Nan. She has the permit in her Territory for her 92 YO Mum. Gets the occasional comment and surly look when picking up GreatMa.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

It is nearly impossible to police, I regularly park in a blue spot in a car with a ticket, get out and walk away and receive angry stares, but what they dont know is I'm going to get the owner of the ticket....
hard to tell..

Not really. I double parked and took a very long phone call while behind a VIP without a disabled parking permit. He was having a red face day shouting at me to move my car while I just pointed at my phone

Originally Posted by rangieman

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It is not against the law to park in a only baby and prams area

it's actually illegal to discriminate against people who are unable to have children.

so I park in them all the time

Some people are just busybodies who seem to get their kicks in interfering in the lives of others.

Originally Posted by weeds

.....although I would park further away than everybody where nobody parks and walk/push the extra 50m.

How many times do you see cars doing lap after lap looking for a park right outside the door of a shopping centre when there's heaps of vacant spots just metres away.

Cheers, Murray

Originally Posted by rijidij

How many times do you see cars doing lap after lap looking for a park right outside the door of a shopping centre when there's heaps of vacant spots just metres away.

Cheers, Murray

Yep.....it's kinda funny

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I have often thought pregnancy and babies should get priority parking but also think getting exercise is even better for almost all of us. I also like parking a long way back to avoid the mass of people who only park at the door or gate of schools or shopping centres. At the school Zone is gives me a chuckle to walk past all the cars queuing to get to the front gate.

On the people with Disabled permits 10 point for not using the place when not needed.

I do have a mate with a permit and he cops a fair spray at times as his illness is not always evident. (MS)

I certainly don't believe that baby carparks should have priority and having been in the position of having had both a wheelchair user as well as having had a very large pram, I believe I am in a good position, to compare the two. Back in the days before baby and pram carparks, I had a baby in a large pram as well as a young child in a wheelchair. I can tell you from personal experience that disabled people not only NEED that space but it can be dangerous to park elsewhere. When I had only my baby I would park the pram and lift my baby out to put him into the car. I can't do that with my son who is in the wheelchair. I have to leave my son in the chair while I open the car and sort out how I transfer him into the car. During this time he is at risk of being hit by a passing car, unless I am parked in a disabled park which has the room to do this. I also am pretty angry that when the pram carparks came in, they actually took away some of the disabled carparks to make room for them.

I have had to drive home on a number of occasions because I couldn't find a disabled carpark and therefore I never park in one when my son is not with me. I would hate to make someone have to go home just because I am too lazy to walk a little bit.

I do agree that you can't alway tell if someone is disabled and I know of a few people who this applies too. Myself I would never say anything if they have a permit, as I know what it feels like to have to explain to strangers and give them your life story. I have also had people give me dirty looks when I have parked to pick up my son and I hate having to talk about my son illness all the time, especially to strangers.

Yes, I sympathize. It's really no-one else's business and you shouldn't have to explain your personal situation to nosey people.