I met a tinder date and she parked at a handicap spot. I asked if she was handicap and she said "no that's my dad's. I lost respect for her and never talked to her again.
Turn me off too. The character of a person can speak loudly thru the actions even simple ones treating a waiter badly throwing trash out an window speaking nasty about a person looks treating animals badly etc etc
@@chrismartin2123 very true, I ignored so many red flags like this in the past. Never again. Also if you don’t like hurting animals I hope you’re vegan? Put your money where your mouth is?
Amen. I have an incomplete spinal cord injury. I would trade a placard for your healthy spine and ability to walk. I was injured in US NAVY...serving my country...angers the hell out of me!
@Rox M I appreciate your values and belief system but service to my country is part of my Christian ✝️ life! I am proud to be an American, veteran and Christian.
There is an app you can download on your phone. It is called parking mobility and if you follow the directions you can actually report handicapped parking violators and they receive a ticket in the mail.
Top marks officer! We need to respect the needs of the disabled, they didn't choose to be disabled. A parking spot is more than a parking spot to a person with a disability. Please be kind to eachother. Thank you.
Very true my disability is due to transporting peoples needs.. Produce, fish, grocery for 30 years driving truck, I was never a Dock jumper its all those years of being bounced in the seat.
@@johnbockelie3899 You do realize people with certain disabilities like MS can walk and seem normal, but no there is a reason why these people have placards.
Growing up I knew a kid who was in a wheelchair. He was with his mom at the PX and someone had a Mercedes parked diagonally across two spots. His mom had to drop him off at the curb. While she went to park in a regular spot he wheeled himself to the Mercedes and he yanked the Hood ornament.
A bunch of cyclists parked their bikes in the last disabled spot at a garden centre and chained them to a post so they couldn't be moved. When they came out forty minutes later they found every singe tyre was flat. After trying to pump them up they realised that they had been punctured. (I wonder what the cost of replacing 16 tyres was?) Surprisingly nobody saw anything, all they got was "well you shouldn't have parked there !"
Thank you for your work patrolling the parking lots in Spokane! It's so frustrating when people use other people's disabled parking passes or park on the lines between disabled parking spots. We are always looking for a parking space with enough room next to it for the wheelchair ramp and the extra room necessary to maneuver my chair at the end of it. Even most disabled spots don't work unless they have those lines next to them.
What a satisfying job! I'm not of the right temperament to do it, I'd be smiling the entire time I issued a ticket. Thankfully we have professional officers such as this one and I thank him for his service.
Once I saw a lady park in a handicapped spot and no sticker or placard. I confronted her and she tried the 'just for a minute' excuse. I told her that wouldn't do, and that if she didn't move I would block her in and call the cops. Quite a crowd had formed by then. She actually cried and asked why I was being so mean. People started saying "you can walk without trouble", "my grandma is disabled", " it's against the law!" I'm not proud but I think if regular people made it their business it would help. Places where selfishness and inconsiderate behavior is not socially acceptable are better places.
sorry, but willfully blocking someone from leaving when a felony has not been committed is far more wrong than what they are doing. you should be ashamed of yourself at the very least for bullying and locked inside a prison cell while the one who parked illegally will just get a ticket.
@@oldtwinsna8347 You're full of shit. I'm glad that she did that and wish there were more people like her. Those entitled, rude, idiot pieces of crap that park in handicap spots when they're NOT HANDICAPPED deserve whatever the hell they get.
But we have a huge epidemic problem in the "disabled" community as well, since we allow fatasses to get disabled parking that was originally intended for the elderly and those in wheelchairs, when the obese should be required to park at the very back of the parking lot in order to get some much needed exercise.
I somewhat agree. Although $400 is still a very large fine. Last year I accidentally parked in an unmarked handicap spot and was cited $375. When your broke that’s a lot of money. It sucks because it was totally an accident and I should have/could have fought it. For those that do this on purpose I completely agree with a large fine. Unfortunately I’m not someone that would ever even consider doing this but still paid the price. Sucks..
so glad that some cities and people take the need of saving these parking spots for the disabled. A good friend of mine has a valid disabled parking sticker, but on the days he is in less pain he parks in regular parking and is thankful for the chance of doing it.
Thanks. I am now confined to a mobility chair. Without Handicap access I would be home bound . Thanks to the generous support of Handicap Access by businesses and government getting anywhere is possible. Most people honor the parking spots and I thank them.
Thank you sir. I've a Bruno Chariot wheelchair lift that pulls behind my car so I need the extra space to unload my chair. I can't just park anywhere. Even though I'm in Florida I'm appreciating your service in Spokane.
I see cops parking in disable spots a lot, I always put a note on the front window saying I took a lovely photo of your car parked in a disable spot and sent it to the city and the news station .. have a nice day.
@@TrianglePants that happened to me on a back road that had ditches. The officer was directly behind me with lights flashing and I had to pull over almost into the ditch. He passed me practically side swiping me then lights off
Just a heads up on the motorcycle thing, I’m disabled, iv got a disability badge, I also ride a motorcycle therefore I’m perfectly entitled to park in the disabled parking bay. Iv lost count of the amount of times people have tried to shame me for doing so. Do not just assume that a motorcycle is parking there illegally.
Brett was a real BIGOT. Disabled people in wheelchairs often discriminate against those that are NOT in wheelchairs. What if you have a lung or heart condition??? Could equally be disabled. He sounded like a JERK.
It is so good to see someone who actually cares I see so many people who parks in disabled parking and don’t have tags. It’s mostly people with nice cars or doesn’t want to walk a little farther.
I'm confined to a wheelchair so I need a handicapped parking spot. What burns me is when I see someone take the last handicapped spot and nearly run into the store. Then I can't park!
Thanks for enlightening me about the space around the handicapped spots. I'll share with my children. We never park there but this is good information to know to make sure that we never even see that as an option.
Finally! A city that gets it! I approached the Student Resource Officer at my son’s school about people illegally parking in disabled spots. I asked if I could take photos of the offending people and their vehicles. He said no because there’s nothing he could do unless he saw it for himself. He continued to say it just a misdemeanor. Really? Just a misdemeanor? The fine is supposed to act as a deterrent, unfortunately, I don’t believe that it’s working. In my opinion what needs to change is the law making it a felony to park in a disabled spot and allow citizens to capture proof and report to police.
I WORK AS A PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN DENVER. Yes, I'm one of those that tickets people for not feeding the meters. But I also cite people for misusing those handicap placards. I've heard every sob story and excuse in the book. "I only went into the Walmart for a minute". Ok, it'll only take me a minute to write you up. "But this is my grandmother's car. She didn't remove the placard" Placard or no, you have no right to use a handicap space dummy! "But I had to use the space. I'm in a huge hurry!" Well, you're going to be a few minutes late now. You could have saved time if you used a regular space! "But I didn't see the handicap marking on the pavement because it's covered with snow". There's a vertical sign also there that clearly marks this as a handicap space. Open your eyes! Perhaps the worst excuse I heard was the day after Trump was elected. A 20 something woman started crying, said "I'm sorry. I've been so upset about the election, I didn't have the strength to walk all the way from the regular spaces". My response: "Too bad snowflake". Handicap space violations carry a $420 fine. I don't have sympathy for selfish able bodied people using them. Hopefully this stiff fine will teach you a lesson!
Yeah, but on the other hand, about 90% of the people that have valid handicap placards have them for obesity. What excuse do THEY have for not needing more exercise walking a few extra steps? "I'm already healthy" or "Sorry, the hamburger jumped in my mouth"?
I imagine you're obese from your name, job, and avatar. People shouldn't park in handicap spots and they should be jailed for 24 hours for doing so. A simple fine isn't enough. But handicap spots are also out of control in some areas, and nonexistent in others. Why does homedepot need 20 handicap spaces? What happens when their parking lot is full to the brim and not a single handicap space is in use? Why should a handicapped person be given a defacto personal parking space everywhere, despite normal people often not having a single legal place to park? The current handicap system is a problem, and the current mind set of the abled is also a problem. In my experience in Denver, women and negros tend to be the people abusing the handicapped spaces. Two "Victim" classes. The system is imperfect, and I don't have a solution. But pretending that there is never a reason for someone to park in a disabled spot is blind to the realities of the world.
Sure, some places do have an overabundance of handicapped parking spaces. But that's not up to me. City and state building codes are what mandate the number of spaces.
@@Timbrock1000 I know. What could probably be done is making handicap spots restricted during certain hours. Maybe have additional handicap spots on weekends or something.
"90% of people that have valid handicap placards have them for obesity"?... You cannot be serious. Granted I can't stand that every time I go to a grocery store the people I see riding the motorized carts are people that could use the exercise but even implying that 90% of disabled people are obese is like saying 90% of white men are Neo Nazis or 90% of Mexicans are rapists. And I don't know a single disabled person that thinks they are healthy or just sits there gorging on burgers but apparently your perspective of actual disabled people is pretty narrow minded. Good luck there DumbDuck, you are gonna need it.
I am physically disabled. I'm Canadian. The maximum fine is $5,000. But somehow people in general think they can use the parking spots designated for people with disabilities for a couple of minutes or they think they can just park there and sit in the car and wait. Of course they're not allowed to but they think they're above the law. I was in the strip ball ones I parked my vehicle no problem a police officer was giving tickets out he checked my wheelchair permit and I asked him why he says because people misuse these permits quite often he says wait till this guy gets back to me he said he went to go pick up his disabled mother this man will be getting the full fine because his mother was deceased and was not available
Carl, if I remember correctly, some places have 2 separate offenses relating to wrongfully parking in disabled parking spots. The first is simply parking in the disabled parking spot when you're not disabled. And the second is something like fraudulent use of a disabled parking placard. Last I heard, each offense was for around $900 in San Francisco, so if you get nailed for both offenses, you're looking at about $1800 in fines.
Education works sometimes. I had a classmate who was disabled and I saw what he went through to get in/out of his car with a folding wheelchair. Although I never parked in a handicapped space prior to that I did have a great appreciation for his determination. That’s one ticket I would never get
Just today I had someone giving me a hard time for parking in disabled spot. My plates are permanent disabled. Just because I don’t look disabled doesn’t mean people can judge. I hide my pain every day to inspire my children. Not for others to determine my needs.
So glad someone is taking care of these violators! It infuriates me, when ppl have fake placards or park in a handicap spot cause they will on be 5 minutes! Cheers to that dept!
Wish we had more enforcement officers here in the U.K. and higher instant fines. I have a steel and 4mm acrylic, blue badge holder which locks onto the steering wheel with a steel, plastic coated cable and high security lock. It’s police approved. Stolen badges go for up to £500. It’s a good deterrent.
Thank you Rick. Although I'm disabled and have a disabled licence plate, if there are other regular spaces close to the empty handicap parking space(s), I opt to leave that space open for other disabled people.
We need officers like these, over here (UK). We get daffodils and snowdrops that look all very pretty, walking up and down the streets - If you ever see them! The offenders just keep on offending. Right outside the shops in town, one fast food delivery service seem to think that the disabled parking spaces are there for their own convenience, not that of the customers of theirs, or others' businesses.
We definitely definitely need more citation officers like that in California. cuz people block or take up the handicap parking space to go into a weed shop or to a store and not come out, so when this happens I park right behind them or they can't get out they have to wait till I get done I know it pisses them off but they have to learn a lesson they're not handicapped it shouldn't be there
We need to involve some jail time or at least make the fine in the grand(s). The current system is still too tempting at things like events or heavy shopping days
I agree on the jail time. I think the second violation should include mandatory 30 days in jail. Every violation after that add another 30 days and double the fine each time.
My nephew was crossing train tracks and was dragged by a passing train. He lost his left arm and leg and qualifies for a handicap placard. However, her refuses to use it because say's he's not handicapped. Just missing an arm and a leg. Now 31 years old today, he stands (on one leg) at 6ft 1". Lucky to be alive and full of spirit.
What gets me is that they act like it no big deal "Oh just going in for a second" sometimes I'd like to see how they feel if they had to be in that position for a day or week. I say make fines at high as $1000.00 and if they use someone else's tag, take it and return it in a year from that date. If they don't need it then they can live without it for a year.
I took a pic of a parking enforcement truck parked in the HC spot for at least an hour, stood there for a few minutes thinking he's just giving a ticket to someone, but he never came back, so after shopping (farmer's market day on Venice, Culver City) I figured he'd b gone, but it was still there
Similar issue when the entire fire dept takes the big rig to Walmart to shop for supplies for 3 hours while on the clock and takes 10 spots for the truck.
@@billl1127 Usually not a problem if there is plenty of free spots. People do that here too, with their big trucks and trailers, but never when the parking is full
@@billl1127 You would prefer that they leave the big rig in the station and a few of them go to the market? That will certainly improve response time, now won't it?
@@jimknapp8731 Do eight guys really need to buy groceries? So yes, I would prefer that a few, not the majority or all of the dept go. In fact, I'd prefer none of them go while on the clock. Now that would improve response times, wouldn't it?
The problem here in the UK at shopping malls is, no one to enforce it. Private property as far as cops are concerned and the malls/supermarkets don't bother.
it happens all the time around here. i got checked one time since 2009 when i got mine. i didn't mind because they was doing their job. took less than 2 minutes. but i see it all the time people park get out crab a few kids and run into a store or something. i even know one girl that uses her mothers and renews it and that woman has been dead for 8 years i have even turned her in and nothing has ever been done. i am so glad to see this going on.
I never ever place my car on a disabled parking slot. I rather walk a lot than doing that. Why I do this? My father is in a chair. I know how much people struggle with this problem. There are many, many, many architectural barriers that makes the life of a handicapped a painful torture. This HAS to change.
I like how he says that "motorcycles" park in disabled spots. Well, I've got news for you. I'm disabled and I have a plate on my trike that allows me to use the space. Its not what you drive, its how far you have to walk.
My mobility scooter comes out the back of my car, but I need the extra side space to open the door fully in order to get in & out. Not all spaces afford that extra room. A few local ones only give it on one side meaning I have to park facing the wrong way so that the ramp blocks the 'road'.
In Southern Calif, I see a lot of very expensive low profile sports cars, Mercedes, Lexus, Corvettes, BMW, parked in these spots. Usually doctors or family/friends of doctors who get them to write whatever notes are necessary to get a placard.
I recall one guy who had a placard due to having had a heart attack but spent his days flying model planes. He would take the closest spot to the restaurant at lunch time leaving a lady who could hardly walk to park far away quite often!
Must tell this story,after a men’s league basketball game we all went foe a beer,a friend of mine drives a sport car he parked in a handicap spot we all told he should not park there,he did .when we came out all four tires were flat,no air no harm to them.he had to call a tow truck for air,as air was being put back a police man happened by.say no more big fine and a breath test,he got home very late.
I sat near a chic-fil-a waiting for my daughter and watched 6 cars park in the 2 handicapped spots in front of the store to run in and grab their to-go orders. The parking for to-go is directly across the parking lot, maybe 50 ft away. The major were young adults, late teens/early 20s. Absolutely dismal to watch. No thought to anyone else.
Thank you.I'm trying to work toward not needing these spaces but since I fall quite a bit,I notice a lot of people misusing it where I live.its sad.thanks for doing a great job for us disable people...
Before back surgery a few years ago, my wife had a disabled hang tag. She needed a close space, but not one with room for a wheelchair. Maybe we need two types of handicapped designations. One with a Wheelchair logo and the other with crossed crutches for those who can walk, but not far.
I survived a 165 foot rock climbing fall and spent 7 weeks in a coma so I could park close. What have these lazy bastards done to justify stealing my parking spaces?
I agree with Brett's stand on the actual space around or next to the vehicle. I am a paraplegic and a full-time wheelchair user and don't mind if the space is half a mile away as long as I can get next to my car. People leaving no space to get in or out is the problem, not how far away the space is from the venue
It’s not about educating those offenders. They absolutely know what they are doing is wrong and illegal. In order to stop this action from happening should be easy, hire more people to site tickets and charge more for fines. Minimum of $750.00. Double it for the second offense, three times for the third offense and so on. If the driver is not the person the handicap placard was not given to, then charge that person to. They had to give them the placard. Hit them where it hurts, in their pockets.
I think there should be a number that any disabled person can call if someone is illegally parked in a disabled 🅿️ spot. It could connect to the police and a tow company with a contract. Maybe a number like, TOW- 869, or something easy to remember like 111.
My abusive ex husband parked in the emergency ambulance entrance space at the hospital when I was in hospital having our second child, who came early and was on life support. We had to go home without her while I was waiting for a parent’s room to become available. It was the space the ambulance parked in to rush me to theatre when I was 8 months pregnant and haemorrhaging. When I (politely) asked him to move the car the acted like I was a cheeky woman with an attitude problem. His response to all of my logical requests. When a parent’s room became available I arranged a rental house and left him from the hospital. This entitlement was what be believed he was owed in every situation. He was a controlling, abusive b******. Moral of this story, how people park and drive is a true reflection of their character. Don’t ignore red flags like I did. Don’t believe like I did that you only deserve to be tolerated instead of celebrated. I’m still alone 9 years later age 37 but maybe I’ll find someone at some point.
As an MSer with a placard, I rather not park in a handicap spot cause I know there are others who need it more. Plus, the longer I struggle to walk the less I will need the placard.
I've found that a lot of people use someone else's placard. One man who parked in one wearing a tennis outfit threatened me when I asked if he was disabled. I took a picture of his car and his license plate and went to the police station. He didn't get in trouble for threatening me, but he did get fined for parking in a handicapped spot.
Let's get the word out! There certainly has been a rise in the use and abuse of that BLUE placard. Shame on anyone who borrows it just so they can have a better parking space. Have some pride and use those legs and walk! It is a gift beyond measure!
We have a reason why we even keep disabled spots free when we do late night car meets free during late night car meets in our small town in Germany. There is actually a guy here in a Wheelchair who has a absolutely mad modified Opel vivaro. That thing is just lit. He made everything look cool even the lift and that thing is fast! (for a van) he got basically everything on it from a bigger turbo to a side pipe
Don't know what your blue disabled cards are like in the USA but in the UK along with the cards reference number there is always a photograph of the disabled person who was issued the card It seems that you don't do that in the USA at least if there was a photograph on your disabled blue cards the police or whatever could see if the person was in the car or not
On a similar note , I carry around a tubeless tire valve stem and a Shrader valve remover ( available cheap at many auto parts stores ) Yes, I'm permanently disabled . The easiest thing to do is not even vandalism because nothing gets destroyed like the bicycle tire incident below. You quickly go to one side of the vehicle violating the handicapped spot and you use your tool to remove the Shrader valve that instantly deflates the tire and go to the diagonally opposite tire and deflate it too. Then the fun really begins. FIRST, you lay the removed Shrader valve right next to each tire so no charge of any kind can result in your arrest, Air is free, right? You call 911 and say that my handicapped spot is occupied by a violator and please send out a patrol car immediately. By this time the owner of this vehicle knows he/she/it has to call a tow truck to move the vehicle ASAP. a cop arrives and hiding a grin, writes that $400 ticket. That tow truck driver arrives at that point and can add a special surcharge for " rescuing a vehicle " from the handicapped spot. I'll bet that person never parks in another handicapped spot again...
I have the same concerns that this gentleman has but I am quite a few years older. Over the years I have used techniquesnakes such as parking further away at the end of a row so I can't be blocked. I also have parked next to posts which sometimes works. If you don't need to be up front and close try other methods. Even a regular space might work if you park along the line on your right and that will increase your space on the driver's side. I drive a Tudor Monte Carlo and pull my wheelchair out of the back seat. I am a quadriplegic and it took a long time to figure this out but it works.
If there was one cop to each place of business to patrol the handicapped parking violators and issue tickets, they would probably earn the cities a lot of money!
Years ago. I picked up my grandfather, got lunch, drove him around for his errands. After, discovered he left his handicap placard. Per law, hung placard when parked, we'd placed in the glove box before driving. The following day I go to pick up my cousin who is excited to have the first outing since having a broken leg and knee surgery, still in a full leg cast. Decides the Library will be a good starter. Narrow long sloped parking lot with no drop off. Cousin doesn't want to chance the distance nor the slope of the available far parking spaces of the lot. The building entrance has it's own distance and slope to deal with. I say wait I have grandfathers Handicap Placard. Placard and space only used for that scenario, without grandfather.
LOVE IT!!!! Would love this job. My mother became a double amputee and I go a little educational when I see it illegally. I want window stickers that say, “I’m not put physically handicap I’m just LAZY!.
Might sound strange, but being a biker doesn’t mean you can’t be disabled. When I took my motorbike test I met a biker with one leg, had a bike changed for him and a holder for his crutches. He had a blue badge and I think a special holder to attach it to the bike.
This happens all the time, witnessed a woman beat me to a handicapped parking zone. She was young and was carrying a young child while leaving her vehicle of which didn't have any kind of placard stating she could park in that zone....she waited in line 20-25 min. My daughter said I should have taken a picture of her car license plate and turned it in, this was in Spokane.
Good on ya, Rick. Never listen to the "moanlies". (" 'm only picking up a paper": " 'm only posting a letter": etc, etc). They're just as much a nuisance as the longer-term abusers.
At the Walmart and other places with big parking lots most of the cars in the handicap spaces are parked half in the space and half in the crosshatch, or parked diagonally. I don't think there's any such thing as parking enforcement in South Jersey, except maybe in the cities. I don't know.
