Thread: Disabled Parking WTF

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

I see it every time I go to a shopping centre, supermarket or
Bunnings, and they are too busy looking for the next parking spot that road rules seem to not apply, no indicators or obeying stop signs, as they are concentrating on the sole task of looking to park.
I told the Greeter at Bunnings last week that she should be out there in the car park enforcing the road rules instead, as the amount of near misses that occur there every time.
seems that people class these places as private property and common sense and road rules don't apply.
Quote from a blog QLD police
I’m sorry officer, this is private land. The road rules don’t apply!

mypoliceblogs on Sep 17, 2014 @ 1:53pm
As a Police Beat Officer I hear this a lot. Some drivers are under the impression that because a shopping centre is private land that road rules don’t apply when driving in a car park. So, the question is: is a shopping centre car park a road?
Well the answer is yes.
A road is an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or is used for, the driving or riding of motor vehicles, whether on payment or not. The road rules do apply in car parks and they are enforced by police.
Shopping centres are pedestrian and motor vehicle rich environments, and people do unpredictable things for which you, as a driver, need your full attention focussed on the road. So the next time you need to take that urgent phone call whilst driving through the shopping centre, remember that you just happen to be driving through a car park with plenty of convenient places to stop and park!

Originally Posted by rangieman

It is against the law to use a disabled park if you do not have a disabled permit.
It is not against the law to park in a only baby and prams area

That must be the reason all the spankers drive around with 'Baby on Board' signs in their windows, so they can all park in the Prams zones

i like the sign that says: "babe on board"

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

That must be the reason all the spankers drive around with 'Baby on Board' signs in their windows, so they can all park in the Prams zones

Careful those able bodied pram pushers might take offence to being called spankers

I work for a council and my department is responsible for disabled permits. No one gets one without a Dr saying they have a disability. And it ****s me when people have a go at people for not looking "disabled" enough to have a permit. What makes people think they are experts at a glance? And it's parking FFS - we're not talking sheep stations here. A bit of perspective might not go astray....

Some people don't seem to have thought about why "Pram Parking" spaces are a good idea.

It has nothing to do with the distance from the shops. It is all about the width of the parking space.

If you have ever tried to lift a baby capsule in or out of a car when you can't fully open the car door, you would know why a wider parking space is needed during that short period of time when the child needs to be lifted in and out of the car.

Parents with prams bays didn't exist when we had our children. We survived. I will admit to occasionally using them particularly when my kids were teenagers and I had to pick them up from work as they were near the door and they could see me. However I never park in disabled bays.

On the topic of who is entitled to have an Acrod sticker. My mum has one and my parents particularly use it to get free parking. My mum has benign MS and walks a lot. I would argue that when she is not in a flare state that she doesn't need it. By the same token I would never approach some about their entitlement to use one but they can be abused.

Originally Posted by loneranger

Parents with prams bays didn't exist when we had our children. We survived.

We also survived the time when baby capsules and seat belts were not compulsory.
The fact that we survived does not mean that they are not a good idea.