Berated in a disabled parking space by socilaist misfits!

[gus-lopez]

Or would be if there were any around. Do you know of one that has been preserved because they were supposed to be recalled and destroyed?

Yes it was only the government supplied ones that were recalled & destroyed along with all the spares. By all account s there were/are privately owned ones & quite a few are still about & also some abroad by all accounts. Mind you having said that I haven't seen one since the 80's.

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

Unfortunately there will always be people who park in disabled bays who shouldn’t (The idiots ) this makes people skeptical of genuine disabled drivers ,

I agree, but in Roberts case it was the type of car & my private number plate that did it for them, they didn't seem to care about any disability or blue card.

What does ‘hirpling’ mean? Never heard that word before!

Limping really badly....a Scottish word.

 

[ambulancekidd]

@ambulancekidd not a pleasant experience.
However i do object to you using 'treehuggers' to describe these rude and ignorant people and probably jealous people

Objection noted @scotzsue & I apologise for offending you but, in my defence it was the car itself that the morons seemed to object to & we'd had similar responses when we had the Range Rover I can only speak as I find.

 

[pappajohn]

Funnily enough, the first word of my response begins with the letter F, and the last word ends in the letter F.
No time for jealous gobshites like that.

 

[tonyidle]

Maybe I should have put probibly a classic as I don't know
Bill

Me neither - I was hoping you did . I had a more than passing interest in Greeves stuff in my younger days. I still have an Invacar badge given to me by a disabled friend - he removed it from his Invacar.

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[rangi]

There is one of those open ones (no roof) get in from the back, parked in the street at Illogen, I see it every time I take Maureen to the surgery.

 

[Just smiffy]

I get it all the time.... and yes I park my 55k Motorhome in a disabled bay, that gets some looks.... it’s my daily driver at the moment.....

For forty years I’ve seen it all, can you imagine forty years ago a 20yr old pulling up in a disabled bay in a black JPS Capri windows down radio blaring arm out window with Raybans on......

I used to get so much abuse until the wheelchair came out the door....

But in those days you only had to be old to get a blue badge but I get stick from snowflakes and older people now....

Old age is a disability...

As usual it’s the ones that don’t need it that f***s it up for the rest....

In Europe they respect the disabled bays...

 

[davanne]

Well I would rather not have MS, it would be nice to get old without that to contend with, but it's not to be.

Totally agree Hazel I too would love to grow old gracefully but with my mobility through MS there is no chance of that

 

[Just smiffy]

 

[trophychap]

People with invisible disabilities have always been open to criticism by ignorant people but there again even when you have a visible disability - like when Jenny was on crutches - and finding it difficult to walk on uneven pavements, people walking along with their heads in their phones and not paying the slightest attention to who's coming the other way often got annoyed and exasperated when she didn't change her path and allow for them Or people behind her getting a bit annoyed that she didn't get a move on to save inconveniencing them in their haste to get wherever they were going.

I don't think the neighbour with prostate cancer is correct - you don't get any priorities on hospital parking when going for daily radiotherapy or chemo sessions, for instance. Now admittedly our hospital has a separate cancer treatment department - a large waiting area with nice comfy chairs (and some ordinary ones), a café counter (drinks and snacks) and when you finish that session, reception there can validate your parking ticket so you don't have to pay - but if you see your consultant meanwhile, which wouldn't be in the cancer centre - you have to pay and you aren't classed as disabled unless you literally are flippin disabled.

A good many people who are entitled to get Motability vehicles 'trade up' to something better, bigger, nicer, whatever for whatever reason (like having several other children as well as the disabled one so the whole family can go out together and I can't see how any of this makes the blue badge holder, less disabled or less entitled to use a designated blue badge parking spot! Idiots.

Our Antara is an ex-Motability - at least we knew it had FSH when we bought it!

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[Spriddler]

Reminds me of when we were teenagers & raced karts. We wanted Greeves engines as the Villiers was discontinued& hard to get + parts, & the only way to get them was to go to an interview at the Invacar Factory, near Rayleigh in Essex , with Preston-Cobb, the cousin who Bert Greeves invented the original car for.
For a man who was severely paralysed & with a myriad of other problems he was a good laugh . He regularly crashed his high performance version, read that as deadly, of an Invacar. I believe he was also the only person to get a speeding ticket somewhere between 80-90mph?

I used to Scramble (later called Motocross) a Greeves Hawkstone back in the 60's and met Bert Greeves several times. My brilliant Polish uncle who lost a leg and an eye when blown up in a British tank at Monte Cassino had an Invacar which I tweaked up a bit with a few competition parts. I used to put a bit Castrol R in the petrol. He loved it.
He had great fun with his alloy leg and used to leave it with foot sock and shoe sticking out of his trouser leg on the beach when he went for a swim, and bring an extra bottle of Scotch home in it from a trip to France.

 

[Steve and Denise]

Unfortunately there will always be people who will abuse the blue badge system or swing the leg so to say, most who do this are taking up much needed spaces for those in need of disabled parking.

I would never park in a disabled bay but must admit I do park in parent bays as they are bigger and save gettingdings in the side of my car, I have been shouted at a few times by some overweight bird with a 12 year old space hopper looking child,
But I always say politely, do you work for this store NO well GO AWAY!

 

[TinaLes]

We use TinaL's Blue Badge when shopping, especially when we go to the big out of town Tesco, Asda, & Sainsburys. There are loads of disabled parking spaces, but nearly all are taken up by able bodied people with no Blue Badge on display. I have given up challenging people nowadays. because the normal answer i get from most is " I am only just popping in for a minute", I say Oh that makes it alright then does it?, hope you never get a dissability as you already find walking too much hastle obviously!.
Two things spring to mind:
1. they need to be policed more and fines issued for abuse, until then the abuse will continue, especially at busy times.
2. It would seem that most able bodied people think that all dissabled people only shop during the day, not in the evening, so its a free for all facilty.
Observation:
Most Blue Badge holders round here are Obese women, that can walk arround a very large supermarket unaided, and can fiill their trolleys with all the stuff they should know better than eat.
Rant over
Les

 

[gus-lopez]

you don't get any priorities on hospital parking when going for daily radiotherapy or chemo sessions, for instance.

Obviously depends on area. Mid & North Devon radio & chemo patients on first visit can ask fro a pass & you just put this in the windscreen every day you are there. For radio you it lasts for the period of treatment.In The Exeter one it does also help that there is no parking in the adjacent car park even if you have paid for a ticket as it is for the chemo/ radio therapy patients..

 

[Nirvanauk]

Just sent an email to David Lloyd Gym of which I am a member. All the disabled bays are taken up by 10 every morning by Range Rovers, (why are they always prats in Range Rovers.) They display no blue pages so isn't it about time you sorted it. I am waiting on a response.

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[davanne]

town Tesco, Asda, & Sainsburys.

Our local Tesco now have a parking attendant who goes round checking and photographing vehicles parked without badges

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

Just sent an email to David Lloyd Gym of which I am a member. All the disabled bays are taken up by 10 every morning by Range Rovers, (why are they always prats in Range Rovers.) They display no blue pages so isn't it about time you sorted it. I am waiting on a response.

That is barmy, so they don't want to walk a bit further to get some exercise in a gym....the mind boggles.

 

[rangi]

Our local Tesco now have a parking attendant who goes round checking and photographing vehicles parked without badges

Saw that happening the last time I called into Tesco Redruth

 

[vwalan]

Saw that happening the last time I called into Tesco Redruth

asda in st austell and bodmin have a attendant .
when they get a report they a tow truck is parked in the disabled the woman that does the checking knows its usually mine.
mind she also as a laugh if its reported about a big m,bike in the disabled parking as well.
she likes to come out and have a chat about where did i get to this year etc .
i often get asked in carparks if i know where i,m parked is for disabled folk. i answer by lifting my trouser legs and saying yes .
amazing how many think disabled folk shouldnt drive m,bikes or drive artic trucks .

 

[Puddleduck]

I have had the misfortune to need a blue badge - I handed it back as soon as I was able to walk again. People said I was daft and should have kept it but that isn't me..... and it wasn't easy to get in the first place.

When I damaged my ankle last year I had to use a wheelchair for a while but did not qualify for a blue badge - the local supermarket told me to park in one of the disabled bays and they made a note of the car reg number. Only once did someone challenge Martin about the lack of a badge - and Martin smiled, invited person to look in the back and then help with the chair and my transfer from car to chair. He did get an apology and Martin explained that blue badges were not issued for temporary problems.

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[TinaLes]

Nice one @Puddleduck, if only more people were as honourable as you.
I have to say though, if I see someone needing a wheelchair for assistance in mobility, Blue Badge or not then I dont, neither should anyone else, have a problem.
Well done that man.
Les

 

[Silver-Fox]

I would never park in a disabled bay but must admit I do park in parent bays as they are bigger and save gettingdings in the side of my car

Ohh my god the world will stop revolving now with you doing this

Ive quite understood this parent and child parking bays.
SWMBO used to manage three kids and a Gran that struggled to get in and out of a car let alone walk that well.
Maybe she's a superwoman no ill correct that I know she is
Just don't tell her I said so

One think that does grind my gears is when I see, normally a bloke mid 50's, parks up with blue badges and jogs off up the road

As for big/expensive/sporty private plated cars fair play to those that have grafted and bought what gives them a buzz.
Ive never got this jealous thing similar to those that have a fair size house.
Nothing queer than folk

 

[SpeedyDux]

We use TinaL's Blue Badge when shopping, especially when we go to the big out of town Tesco, Asda, & Sainsburys. There are loads of disabled parking spaces, but nearly all are taken up by able bodied people with no Blue Badge on display. I have given up challenging people nowadays. because the normal answer i get from most is " I am only just popping in for a minute", I say Oh that makes it alright then does it?, hope you never get a dissability as you already find walking too much hastle obviously!.
Two things spring to mind:
1. they need to be policed more and fines issued for abuse, until then the abuse will continue, especially at busy times.
2. It would seem that most able bodied people think that all dissabled people only shop during the day, not in the evening, so its a free for all facilty.
Observation:
Most Blue Badge holders round here are Obese women, that can walk arround a very large supermarket unaided, and can fiill their trolleys with all the stuff they should know better than eat.
Rant over
Les

The security guard won't be watching the disabled parking bays.

The CCTV is generally all inside the store, seldom covering the car park area. These companies don't care much what happens to customers until they are inside. Hence the "you park at your own risk" type of disclaimers. If you are robbed outside or your car is stolen, tough.

 

[The Lord Squid]

What made the OP think the complainers were socialists? Disclosure: I'm a socialist vegetarian. With a wheelchair-reliant brother.

 

[Nirvanauk]

T

That is barmy, so they don't want to walk a bit further to get some exercise in a gym....the mind boggles.

They usually put their fags out on the way in. LOL>

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[Mrsambulancekidd]

I have had the misfortune to need a blue badge - I handed it back as soon as I was able to walk again.

My problem is I can walk, but not far because of what people don't see, the pain, the heavy feeling left leg or the overwhelming fatigue ect...………...
Tesco & Sainsbury save me all that grief by delivering.

 

[TinaLes]

We alwys take TinaL's blue badge away with us in the Moho, havent needed to use it yet, but If I did NEED to use it should I?Could I?
The van is only 7/4 mtrs long It always fit into two bays
I dont mind buying two parking tickets to enable this if also needed.
Whats you thoughts everyone.
Les

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

I have been known to have a rant at Rotherham MBC but I am pleased to say that they are very pro-active on blue badge abuse. Anyone caught using a blue badge without the right to do so will be taken to court and a fairly substantial fine imposed, approximately in the order of £400 + costs.

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

We alwys take TinaL's blue badge away with us in the Moho, havent needed to use it yet, but If I did NEED to use it should I?Could I?
The van is only 7/4 mtrs long It always fit into two bays
I dont mind buying two parking tickets to enable this if also needed.
Whats you thoughts everyone.
Les

If it is the only wheels you have when your away and you need it, then use it, your clearly not someone who takes the p**s.

 

[Just smiffy]

I can push for miles in my wheelchair so don’t need the bay to be close to the shops, I need the extra space to get the chair out of the door. If someone parks too close I can’t get in or out.

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