As a holder of a handicap permit I often can't park in a handicap spot because there are not enough. And then these jerks make it worse by taking up spots when they are not handicapped!
I'm looking at having to get one this summer. I've been delaying it as long as possible. Thankfully I only have to use it when the sun is up. I'd feel the same way.
@@xTheRealKestrelx I think she meant in her own car, but it wouldn't surprise me if her mother encouraged her to use it. My mother insists on using the bays, (she is entitled, and an able-bodied person accompanying her), when I drive her, even though I am quite happy to drop her off at the door and park elsewhere.
Love it when someone says, "that I was only in the store for a minute". Cop states "that OK it only takes 30 seconds for me to print out the ticket. So for that 1 minute,, it's going to cost you $400.00 plus whatever it was that you picked up in the store
Here's how that happens. You have a person who takes you everywhere you have to go. You put the permit in their glove box for convenience. You trust that they will never use it illegally...and there you are. It stinks.
@@theresabollman8061 If someone else is driving you to an appointment or store, they can drop you right at the door and then park the car, like wise on pickup. If you are driving or need special wheel chairs access then of course it's a different matter. One small town I lived in the local cab firm would give reduced price rides to registered invalids, in their quite fare time. Depending on the length of stay, they would stay or come back for the return journey. They would often get another fare right there at the store and this helped in the discounts they gave.
We need this enforcement in Dallas. I saw a guy with no tags doing repairs on his truck in handicapped at Walmart. They NEVER enforce Walmart parking lots anywhere.
I knew a mom who had a daughter who was handicapped, but when the mother would carry her, it wasn't obvious. One day someone cussed her out for abusing the tag, even though she wasn't. Be careful when you are assuming what's valid or not.
Exactly. Where I am you a disabled person can be accompanied by an able bodied person, so they might use the bay to drop them off and pick them up for an appointment, which means twice an able body person will be seen by themselves using the space. Also, there is this myth that everybody needs to be in a wheelchair or have some obvious disability. Plenty of people have lung diseases or heart problem that means they cannot, (or rather should not) walk long distances. Often they are just given out to elderly people as they are simply less mobile.
@@Cheepchipsable Careful with that. Technically, you CAN get a ticket if the placard holder isn't entering/exiting the vehicle at the spot. If you're dropping them off, you're not supposed to use a disabled parking spot because YOU can walk. If they're not having to walk to the spot, you can be fined for using it. Now, if you drop them off and they walk back to the car or they leave the car in the spot and you go pick them up because they couldn't quite make it, then you're safe and could successfully dispute the ticket if you got one. If they're never getting in or out of the car as it's parked, that's trouble.
it is up the security they hire like at many grocery stores. They will hire retiring police officers to sit in a car and not enforce any parking violation. They need to get officers who do love their job and and enforce the parking laws.
I witness this heartless crime every day. Able bodied drivers knowingly parking in Disabled Bays with no permit or fraudulent ones. They have no idea of the upset and stress their cruel acts cause. Please continue to catch these menaces.
Are you sure, @Patrick Kavanaugh that they are not handicapped. There are disease that can damage the body in ways that is not seen. Heart disease, arthiritis, MS, polio, and many others that you cannot see with the eye. You can go ask them what their disability is to be able to park there. But there are abusers of the placard out there. Just don't assume everyone that can walk is not disabled. Some can't walk very far, and some cannot stand for very long. The invisible handicapps.
@@trekgirl65 Patrick said, specifically, "... parking in Disabled Bays with no permit or fraudulent ones ...." The people he's talking about are not disabled and don't bother with illegally using a placard. Those people flout the law and do so flagrantly. All cars illegally parked in a handicapped space ought to be ticketed and towed immediately. That vehicle would be held in impound until the disposition of a future date ordered by the court. These are actions that police can take without new laws _if_ the law allows for offenders' vehicles can be towed, and _if_ the law does not specify a point in time when an impounded vehicle must be released from impound. Take away their cars for a while. That would be a strong disincentive.
When I was able to walk, I used to park way out at the edge or the parking lot and have a nice long walk to the store. Keep in shape, and keep dents out of the car.
25 years ago I was sworn in as a SPC in Toronto by a Provincial Court Justice who explained that handicapped spaces were not there to save steps but for people who could not take any. Somehow it has become watered down to the point that it appears if you have a slight cough, your doctor will give you a permit. It's the doctors that appear to be the issue now.
Years ago, I had trouble finding place to park in Walmart handicap spaces (I can walk 50 to 75 feet but no farther without a lot of pain). Recently until I have seen Walmart using a security company to enforce it. As a result, in the last few years, I haven't had a problem getting one open.
What's the point of catching people in the act if you're just going to give them a warning? Do you think that they won't do it again? They will, mainly because it is highly unlikely that they'll be caught again. If this guy were hit with a $450 ticket, he would tell people about it and the word would get out. As it is, he gets to simply sneak away and do it again when it suits him.
I don't know the exact parking/driving laws in Toronto but I do that this news lady is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!! She can be my next door neighbor anytime.
Honestly my father is very very tired when he goes shopping but he will park his truck at the very far back of the parking lot to avoid being crashed into. I wish people were more like my father!
LOL My roomie did this once for his brand new Acura. It ended up getting hit by a car. You should always park where there are at least a few cars around, you know just as a precaution.
I was sitting in my car in a handicap spot. My wife was in the store. Some dumb woman, accosted me and berated me for 20 minutes about parking there without a handicap parking placard. After 25 minutes, the police showed up. He did something that this nosy assed woman didn't bother doing..she should have looked at my license plate!! One look from the cop...and he berated her for a good 10 minutes... Moral of the story...know your facts before you accuse.
As a disabled person, I have just about HAD it with this problem....the law is far too lenient on these people....I think it is mandatory that cars be TOWED each and every time, and fines should be so high that it REALLY becomes a deterrent to abuse parking in these spots !!!
The offenders should also have to appear before a judge. No just mailing in the fine. They should have to appear before a judge so that the judge can rip the offender to new one.
Right On another thing I hate I have seen girl friend and boy friend riding around in handi cap carts at Walmart Walmart should require a some proof or something
Actually, once in a while, there are legit excuses. Maybe the handicapped passenger really is in the store. Maybe the driver forget that the placard he used was expired but he had the correct placard in his glovebox. (Saw this exact example in a youtube video.) You can't assume that the accused is guilty 100% of the time.
What always made me mad is somebody who takes the accessible parking space then *jumps* out of the driver's seat and start jogging, energetically, and pain free, to wherever they are going.
There's part of the problem, give the guy a "warning" instead of a ticket. The clear handicap parking only sign is the "warning". Give him a ticket so he learns his lesson, no exceptions. Better still, handicap violators should be towed.
I have a handicap parking space in front of my house due to lung disease. Even with oxygen I struggle to breathe. I had to pay to have the sign place in front of my house along with a yearly fee. Three times this week alone random people have parked in my spot. When police come to fine them it is only a $50 ticket. I wish I lived in this town where fines total up to over a thousand dollars plus a tow. What kind of a deterrent is a $50 ticket ?!
Why did the parking enforcement officer let the guy off without citing him a ticket- every person in the whole United States and Canada knows not to park in a handicap parking spot ,,a 15 or 16 year old knows THAT
My daughter is confined to a wheelchair and has a parking permit. A few months ago, I drove her to a doctor's appointment and I pulled up into the disabled parking space. As I was getting out of the drivers side to get her wheelchair out of the boot of the car, a taxi squeezed into the marked area next to my passenger side - blocking my daughter into our car. She waved the disabled parking badge through the window so that he would know what he was doing, but he ignored her and went to pick up his fare in the shop next to the surgery. It took all of my self restraint not to punch the inconsiderate scumbag, but I followed him into the shop and made sure everyone knew he was trapping my disabled daughter in our car - his fare looked embarrassed and quickly made her way to the taxi and they drove off.
Maybe you should have blocked the store's door to prevent the driver and his fare from leaving for a while and ask them how they liked getting blocked in and held hostage by some inconsiderate a-hole.
The expectant mother spaces make sense but parking spaces for people with kids? Why should parents be allowed to inconvenience other people by having the best spaces reserved for them just because they have kids.
My Dad had a handicapped license plate on his vehicle because my mother was on dialysis and had to be taken to the hospital every other day for treatments. That involved getting her wheelchair out of the trunk and helping her in or out of the vehicle. My father also had heart disease and parkinson's and had to use a walker to get around. If my sister or myself took them for doctors appointments or my Mom to dialysis and used their car to transport them, we parked in the handicapped spot long enough to get them out of the car and into the building they were going to. Then the car was moved so that someone else with no one to help would be able to park in a handicap spot. The only time we drove their car was to take one of them to a doctor appointment or a medical treatment.
These people know they aren't supposed to be using it. Ridiculous. I have had 5 spinal cord fusions and there are plenty of time's I can't seem to find a parking place. Even the hospital's don't have enough handy cap parking spaces. What few there are are being taken up by all the senior's which is fine because they need the parking spaces more than me. Wait a minute. I'm 68,,,, I'm a senior. Something is wrong. We need more spaces please, somebody. San Diego seems to have a real shortage of them.
Drivers cannot park in disabled spots unless they have someone with a physical disability and the parking permit it is registered to, they can be fined a whopping $450.
Possibly make offenders do some community services with handicap folks..... along with towing, & fines. Get SERIOUS about it. Could we get some courtesy cops at boat ramps- too ?
I have a wheelchair accessible van. The city came out and put the concrete on the curb of the street , painted the space, and put a handicapped sign up. One day a car that did not have a disabled placard parked on 1/3 of the handicapped space. This caused a big problem for me as I didn’t have the concrete space to deploy the ramp. I got stuck in the van for 2 hrs until someone from outside use his muscles to manually open the ramp for me to get out. Please be considerate and don’t be a cheater.
Thien Thanh Why would you wait there for so long for help? Couldn’t you have pulled elsewhere in the parking lot to deploy your ramp and then located the vehicles owner? Don’t you have a phone you could have called someone to help you?
Need to INCREASE the fines, and ENFORCE them. 'I didn't know it's not allowed...' Well, now that we're taking your HOUSE, because you've failed to pay a fine of five thousand dollars, I'm sure you'll be more aware in future...
I have a valid permit, as for two years I had leg problems that made walking painful. However, since those problems have largely cleared up, I no longer use the handicap parking. I still keep the permit in my car, in case the problems return. On the other hand, I knew someone who used his wife's permit, when he didn't need handicap parking.
My mother has RA and has difficulty walking. I don't have a permit and I don't need one. What I do is I drop her off in front of the doors, so she has less of a distance to walk, then I go and park the car wherever I can and that is closest and then walk to the store. It works better than using the disability parking.
And that's exactly what EVERYONE should do .....but there is a huge demographic who don't care about anyone else, don't care about rules, regulations, laws. .
If you are dropping someone that is handicapped off, at the door, like I do w my mom, you should still find somewhere else to park, especially if you're staying in the vehicle
My Husband had a Handicap Tag up until he passed away and I never used it unless he was with me and if he didn't get out of the truck, I didn't park in Handicap....
When my doctor signed for my parking placard he told me that I had earned it. Even though I have the placard, if I do not have it with me, I will not let my driver park in a handicap spot.
I also have a permit, but...I have always wondered...what if the holder is in the car with their caregiver/kid/whatever...? Do they get fined for not getting out of the car while their caretaker...whatever, is doing bank and food runs? (I won't be using it much longer, thou, as I am almost back to 'better' after being hit by a driver. I guess when it expires...I burn it??
It’s terrible that this action results in the owner losing their placard for 6-8 weeks. That’s a terrible inconvenience! Don’t tell me that every handicapped person is aware their placard is “borrowed”.
Another annoying situation is when the permit holder parks and sits in the vehicle, while a able person is in shopping. Shame on anyone who abuses this.
Problem is, when I've told people who seem able bodied parking in a handicapped spot, then jump out of the car and go into a store, that they can't park there, they tell me they walk fine, yes, but have a heart condition.
I wonder, if one of the teachers that received a special parking permit for a month pulled into the parking lot to park and go into the school yet every time they got to school someone else was in their parking place, how would they feel?
In this age of cell phones, a cell-photo of the marked space, and licence plate, and windsheild (no card), should be all that is needed to ticket scoff-laws. It works in NH...
i was given a handicap permit to keep in my personal vehicle for my daughter who has a disability, i used it only 2 times in a year and only when she was with me, it actually stayed in the truck door unless it was needed then i hung it on the mirror
Absolutely no one should get a break when they park illegally in a handicapped space, letting them off with a warning is a slap in the face to the handicapped. By the same token, anyone who has a handicapped placard should know by now to take it out of their car if they let someone else use their vehicle.
Washington has them. Oregon doesn't. I think they would be a great idea. People will cheat by borrowing Granddad's car, but they can't grab his plates and put them on his own car. That is an arrestable offense, not merely ticketed one; a high-level misdemeanor in some states, a lower-grade felony in others.
A bit tough on the legitimate holders, nicking the permit off them till the court proceedings are over. But I guess that's the penalty for letting the thing out of your possession, which shouldn't be necessary.
