Foo - Handicapped Spots

Maybe I am inciting a riot here but over half of the people I see that park in handicapped parking spots do not appear to be handicapped at all. The sad part is that almost half of the "mildly" handicapped people who park there appear to have the same physical ailment. They are simply "FAT". I can't help but wonder why someone would put their bodies in that condition because of laziness when there are so many fun ways to stay fit like cycling out there.

Anyway....You guys can "fire away" now. I just needed to vent

I sometimes park in handicapped spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

To be fair, sometimes handicapped parking spaces are pretty ridiculous. For example, a small business with four parking spaces, two of them designated as handicapped spots. I don't know what the solution is, and I certainly wouldn't be in favor of completely abolishing handicapped parking spots, but it can sometimes be frustrating. (On the inverse, I'm sure having a genuine need for such a parking spot and not being able to find one is also frustrating.)

That said, someone parking in a handicapped spot because they are simply too lazy or out of shape to walk the extra distance ought to be ground up and fed to dog poop.

I sometimes park in handicapped spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.Because you're an assho-lio-lio, lio-lio, lio-lio, yes the world's biggest *******!

Because you're an assho-lio-lio, lio-lio, lio-lio, yes the world's biggest *******!


As much as I hate that man, I do like the song...

According to most DMV's a disabled persons placard is issued if the person applying has a heart or lung disease (where walking in excess of 200' is physically dangerous), is partially or fully blind, or has lost or lost the use of an appendage.

People can get a temporary placard by a doctor's order if they're recovering from an accident or any type of surgery the physician deems justifiable.

They don't (as far as I can see) just give out disabled person's placards to obese people. I don't have one, for example. ;) (What's a little sandbagging, betwixt friends?)

I drive really slow, in the ultra-fast lane, while people behind me are going insane.

Sad case at the courthouse about this. Some idiot parks in the handicap spot in front of the courthouse. So a real handicapped lady with a special wheelchair van comes in and can't find a parking spot, so she parks one over from the handicapped spot and leaves to do her business (in a wheelchair). Turns out this next spot over is reserved parking for one of the judges. When he shows up and finds his spot taken, he gets throws a tantrum and LETS THE AIR OUT OF THE TYRE HANDICAP LADY'S VAN!!! :eek:

That made for some headline stories the next day. And of course, did the guy who parked in the handicap spot get a ticket? NO!!! Did the judge somehow get reprimanded? NO!!!

handicapped spot robbers don't irritate me as much as the f^ckers that park in fire lanes becuase they're either "self-entitled" or they're too f^cking lazy to walk another 30 feet.

i like to tell 'em "nice parking - you clown *******!"

damn all this hate and rage.

they're still f^ckers.

Thats cuz u get special powers when u r a judge.
says so on the little placard
Can let air out of tires , can make stupid decisions that affect the country based upon one person, can bring dildos into court

handicapped spot robbers don't irritate me as much as the f^ckers that park in fire lanes becuase they're either "self-entitled" or they're too f^cking lazy to walk another 30 feet.

i like to tell 'em "nice parking - you clown *******!"

damn all this hate and rage.

they're still f^ckers.
I think the only people worse than the people who do that are the people who get fed up over it. It has been proven that Your hair line can receed two to five times faster when you worry about such such stuff that you have no control over your life.

I think the only people worse than the people who do that are the people who get fed up over it. It has been proven that Your hair line can receed two to five times faster when you worry about such such stuff that you have no control over your life.


so, i'm guessing you park in the fire lane... ;)

I've got a friend with MS and he has a handicapped license plate. He can walk, but it's pretty uncomfortable, especially on a hot day (93° outside right now), and some days he needs a cane. So if you see someone park in a handicapped space and they appear not to be, it might be best to just let it slide.

At my old job we only had like 6 or 7 parking spots, including a handicapped spot.

Only problem was that we had about 10 to 20 people working at any given day. When the regular marked spots were taken, people simply parked on a grassy spot outside the lot. And yeah, the handicapped spot was routinely used by myself and others.

I've got a friend with MS and he has a handicapped license plate. He can walk, but it's pretty uncomfortable, especially on a hot day (93° outside right now), and some days he needs a cane. So if you see someone park in a handicapped space and they appear not to be, it might be best to just let it slide.


Agreed. An acquaintance of mine is a veteran of several combat tours in Vietnam. His knees, hips, and ankle are patched together. He can walk a short distance before the pain gets too intense. He doesn't look handicapped, all handicapped people don't necessarily require canes or wheelchairs. Lotta recent disabled veterans out there. You can't always tell who is handicapped. If they have a handicapped placard or plate, they probably need it.

I just ride my bike to the store and park inside ;)

Although, the "preggo mom" spots next to the handicap spots do annoy me a little bit. I'll park in those just to be a jerk sometimes. If you're too preggers to waddle your butt into the store from a normal parking space, you should make your wonderful husband go into the store for you, or at least drop you off at the door.

I saw Handicapped Spots and thought this was a thread about physically and mentally challenged canines. Speaking of which, what did the three legged dog say as it walked into the old west salloon?

A: "I am looking for the man that shot my paw!"

We have a handicap plate for the wife....

She doesn't look handicapped until she experiences vertigo and suddenly falls. This can happen even with a cane. She has only one inner ear due to cancer and losing the inner ear with the tumor body (this is why she rides a recumbent trike). A handicap isn't readily apparent, just so Y'all know.:(

To be fair, sometimes handicapped parking spaces are pretty ridiculous. For example, a small business with four parking spaces, two of them designated as handicapped spots. I don't know what the solution is, and I certainly wouldn't be in favor of completely abolishing handicapped parking spots, but it can sometimes be frustrating. (On the inverse, I'm sure having a genuine need for such a parking spot and not being able to find one is also frustrating.)

That said, someone parking in a handicapped spot because they are simply too lazy or out of shape to walk the extra distance ought to be ground up and fed to dog poop.

Ummm, it's because that's the law. They have to have a certain amount of handicapped parking.

Interestingly i was talking with my grandparents about this the other day, they recently gave in and have moved down to the US retirement home (IE central florida). They say that when they come up here there is never an issue finding a spot, but down there getting a handicap parking spot becomes a much desired tallent.

We have a handicap plate for the wife....

She doesn't look handicapped until she experiences vertigo and suddenly falls. This can happen even with a cane. She has only one inner ear due to cancer and losing the inner ear with the tumor body (this is why she rides a recumbent trike). A handicap isn't readily apparent, just so Y'all know.:(

Lies!

Don't you know handicap people must always be in a wheelchair?!

There are certain behaviors by which one can infer a person's character. Using a 'handicap' space without need telegraphs to the world a great number of things about that person. . .trust them at your peril.

I don't assume someone's capabilities on sight, I accept that many don't look handicapped. But all one needs to do is check for the sticker.

Over here, it's not so much a problem as the soccer moms in SUVs using the "family" spaces - regardless of whether they have the brood or not. I guess they figure, "well I have kids, so that counts yeah?" :crash:

I challenged one one day and she just gave me some crap about going to pick them up. Total BS - if you drive that monstrosity it's a sure bet you ferry your kids everywhere - you were just going to nip in to get a half double decaf half caf with a twist of lemon, you lying selfish beotch. Shameless.

handicapped spot robbers don't irritate me as much as the f^ckers that park in fire lanes becuase they're either "self-entitled" or they're too f^cking lazy to walk another 30 feet.

i like to tell 'em "nice parking - you clown *******!"

damn all this hate and rage.

they're still f^ckers.
from a personnal point of view from someone who lost a lot in a fire,I can tell you that i have no pity for people who park in our fire lane, they get automaticly towed, I have lived through what a fire can destroy and it's more then material things and I wont let anyone hurt our chance of making it if something ever happends again.

Heart disease. Emphysema. Severe arthritis. Recent surgery. Cancer. People can look "perfectly normal" with any of and have desparate need for the handicap placards or plates. It is also possible that a perfectly healthy person is parking a car for a needy freind or family member who will be coming out of the store etc. and driving away - I've done this a time or two along the way. Don't be so quick to judge.

However, I encourage everyone to investigate. On a number of occasions, I have seen a seemingly healthy person park in the H-spot (just down the street for the G-spot :rolleyes: ) and made a point to stroll over to make sure they had the proper placard hanging from the mirror or the proper license plate. They almost always do. Once or twice, the person has figured out what I'm up to, has told me (briefly) what their condition was and thanked me for checking. Over the years, I have challenged two, maybe three people who parked in the H-spot with no card, no handicap and no clue. Some folks truly are jerks about, but many can be shamed or persuaded to do the right thing. And some really are that clueless and simply need to be taught.

My brother used to tease me and say that we could park in the handicapped space as long as we put my picture up in the window. :rolleyes:

What's really silly is that at one of the grocery stores we have here in the Salt Lake Valley, there are several designated spots for pregnant women. WTF is up with that? They are outlined in red with stupid, abstract storks carrying babies painted on them. I'd like to know exactly what their policy is for using those spaces. Does a women have to be a at least 2 trimesters in or can she just barely have concieved?

TMI: I used to make jokes about using it when I had my IUD in. There was something in my uterus after all. :p

Yes... Go on.

Oh oop, ummm that's all there is to tell. The IUD has been aborted so now I don't have any excuse to use their pregnant lady parking spots at Harmon's. :p

Thank heavens...that thing sucked big time.

I had one of those temporary handicap cards, that dangle from the rearview mirror, after I broke my neck. I had to be driven around for awhile, but I did not really need it, and it was valid for way longer than necessary. I have to say, I abused the hell out of that thing, handing it to friends when they offered to make the lunch run, etc.

"Damn, the restaurant is packed, wait, Allen do you have your card?"
"Oh yeah."
"Rock star parking it is then."

"We're going to be late to the movie."
"Oh no, second only to valet parking."

We have a handicap plate for the wife....

She doesn't look handicapped until she experiences vertigo and suddenly falls. This can happen even with a cane. She has only one inner ear due to cancer and losing the inner ear with the tumor body (this is why she rides a recumbent trike). A handicap isn't readily apparent, just so Y'all know.:(


When I was going through chemo I could have used handicapped parking but was silly and didn't. I can't even tell you the number of times that I got to the grocery store and by the time I walked from the parking lot to the store I was so tired I turned around and left without buying anything because I didn't have the energy left to find the milk (why is it always in the back of the store). Anyway I didn't look handicapped when I wore my wig.

And if anyone had given you crap, you could (and should) have doffed your wig at them. I have seen this used to devestating effect - fortunately never on anyone who didn't really ask for it repeatedly.

What chaps my arse is narrow handicapped spaces at the mall. The wide wheel chair van ones I can understand. But regular sized spaces close to the door done up in blue, WTF?1?!? If you can walk your cripple ass around the mall, you can walk another 10 parking spaces to the door.

Don't even get me started on the 'with kids' spaces. Yet to see the preggers ones.

I should be inconvenienced because of an action you chose to engage in? :roflmao:

According to most DMV's a disabled persons placard is issued if the person applying has a heart or lung disease (where walking in excess of 200' is physically dangerous), is partially or fully blind,

Fully Blind drivers should definately get a handicapped parking spot.......



But seriously...there is way too much improper use of Handicap parking causing undo exertion and pain for those who truely need the spaces.

And if anyone had given you crap, you could (and should) have doffed your wig at them. I have seen this used to devestating effect - fortunately never on anyone who didn't really ask for it repeatedly.

I heard some stories about woman doffing their wigs when given a hard time about looking healthy and parking in the handicapped spots. I did one day walk into a grocery store, sat down on their display bench and demand the next worker I saw go and find my milk, bread .... I just gave them a list. Just wore me scarf that day. No one seemed to complain that I was so lazy. Yes my dear hubby would have done anything I asked him to but I felt that if I couldn't do simple things then I might be sick. So I refused the handicapped tag because that would have made me sick. May I never have to do it again but if god for bid I do bring on the handicapped tag and those silly electric wheelchair shopping cart things.

I don't typically care if "non-handicapped looking" people park in handicapped spaces.

What I do mind is if they do not have a sticker or placard, then I am really tempted to say something.

Speaking of handicapped spaces, I once worked in a department store with four main entrances.

I saw an older gentlemen looking out the doors for something. I asked if I could help him, and he said he was trying to remember which entrance he and his wife had used when the came into the store.

I asked if I could help him, and he said yes, that he was looking for a white Crown Vic, and they had parked in the "cripple zone".

Never heard it referred to as that before, but I thought it was odd/funny.

I heard some stories about woman doffing their wigs when given a hard time about looking healthy and parking in the handicapped spots. I did one day walk into a grocery store, sat down on their display bench and demand the next worker I saw go and find my milk, bread .... I just gave them a list. Just wore me scarf that day. No one seemed to complain that I was so lazy. Yes my dear hubby would have done anything I asked him to but I felt that if I couldn't do simple things then I might be sick. So I refused the handicapped tag because that would have made me sick. May I never have to do it again but if god for bid I do bring on the handicapped tag and those silly electric wheelchair shopping cart things.
When my leukemia was running full blown, those little electric carts were a godsend. I felt like a dork the first ten seconds, after that it was "Watch out! Cripple comin' through! Get outta my way you ambulatory sonuvabiotch!" :lol:

What chaps my arse is narrow handicapped spaces at the mall. The wide wheel chair van ones I can understand. But regular sized spaces close to the door done up in blue, WTF?1?!? If you can walk your cripple ass around the mall, you can walk another 10 parking spaces to the door.

Don't even get me started on the 'with kids' spaces. Yet to see the preggers ones.

I should be inconvenienced because of an action you chose to engage in? :roflmao:

Yea, there is never anyone who is simply old and frail. In fact the vast majority of handicaps are people who simply have trouble walking, not people who need that huge amount of space. And often it is not 10 more spaces, it is several hundred yards.

The stupid thing is having all or almost all handicaped spaces set up for wheelchair access. Go to home depot sometime. Beetter part of two whole lanes taken up by handicaped spaces, all extra wide and almost never anyone in a wheelchair inside. Also almost never having the majority of the handicapped spaces taken either. Not so for the other spaces.

Oh did anyone hear about the trouble the NBA had a few years ago? They got in trouble because the officials dressing rooms were not wheelchair accessable.

It blows my mind how many people ask me for handicapped stickers/plates after relatively minor surgeries. I've had people ask about handicapped stickers for their cars after surgeries that hospitalized them for 5 days.

It blows my mind how many people ask me for handicapped stickers/plates after relatively minor surgeries. I've had people ask about handicapped stickers for their cars after surgeries that hospitalized them for 5 days.
When I imagine that for some of them the extra walk might even help in their recovery? :rolleyes:

When I imagine that for some of them the extra walk might even help in their recovery? :rolleyes:

Exactly! This is actually true for 99% of all postop patients. The sooner you're up and walking the better!

It blows my mind how many people ask me for handicapped stickers/plates after relatively minor surgeries. I've had people ask about handicapped stickers for their cars after surgeries that hospitalized them for 5 days.
really? holy carp man, that's just sad. Mind you, I guess it would go in tandem with a society where kids ask for higher grades from the teacher because they think they deserve it.

Wow, that's just really sad though.

"cripple zone"
:roflmao:

I'm gonna HAVE to remember that one.