Woman reports ~300 handicaped parking violators

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http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat//articles/0227parking-vigilante27-ON.html

I'm glad she's doing this within the right legal channels, but think Rowan College should be taken to task for banning her from campus.

If the car park is quiet, I wouldn't have too much of an objection to people using disabled parking spaces. Same with the parent and child ones really. If it's busy though, it's out of order.

It's about time someone did something.

It is unfortunate, but sometimes I think people just don't realize what a huge inconvenience it can be for someone to not be able to park in a handicapped spot. For me it is necessary because of the extra space those spots afford rather than the typical squeezebox spots in the rest of the lot. I have to manage my four poster can out the door and I'm not real steady first getting out so need the door open to lean on. If they made the whole lot with wider spots, I wouldn't need the special tags at all, but many still would.

I can't believe *football players* did it though!!

I think able-bodied people should save handicapped spaces for people who really need them, but not all physical handicaps are visible to a camera-wielding vigilante. Some people think all handicapped people are in wheelchairs. I had a good friend who had multiple sclerosis and I was with him when a policeman started writing him a ticket for parking in a handicapped parking space even though his handicapped parking placard was displayed appropriately. Another time, he told me about a woman who saw him getting out of his car in a handicapped parking space who told him, "If you wouldn't wear your jeans so tight, you wouldn't have so much trouble walking." We laughed and laughed about her because we joked that she had found a new cure for MS. Who needs IV ACTH when you can just buy looser jeans?

What is a "four poster can"?

ROFL, I should take the time to edit myself!! It's a CANE (the difference that silent e makes!) with four legs, as opposed to the old fashioned wooden staff kind with one leg.

People also don't realize that there are different "levels" of handicapped parking. If the sign has a section on it that talks about "vehicle ID" then you can only park there if you have a hang tag. If you just have disabled plates for your car and no hang tag you can't park there. (Except for disabled vet plates who can park in all spots). The blue hang tags are for mobility handicapped persons, and the red hang tag are for all others (asthma, heart, etc).

I was in a restaurant Saturday night and when we came out a huge bus was parked behind all the handicapped spots, preventing us from leaving. My husband went to talk to the bus driver, who actually required some convincing before he'd move the bus and let us leave!

I live in a "college town", and my biggest beef is for example the kid across the street (by kid I mean 22-23) who is in excellent health but has a hang tag to take grandma to the doctors. That hangtag is in his window all the time, and I've seen him parked in the blue spaces when it's just him alone shopping. That makes me mad, but those are the "invisible" abusers that you can't do much about.
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Me, stepping down off my soapbox

I once had a gag sticker that resembled a handicap sticker, but instead of a wheelchair it showed a straitjacket. For that, I should have gotten my own lane.