Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

January_Embers

Poppy9 wrote: »

that's criminal damage

.

No its not. Some supermarkets already do this kind of thing. So every advertising flyer thats get put on my car is causing criminal damage?:rolleyes: :rotfl:

Everytime someone parks in a parking space it's denying someone else the opportunity to park there. Is it ok for a disabled person who can walk around Tescos to deny a wheelchair user, who needs the extra width space to access their vehicle to park in the space? Should you be able to book ahead and move up the pecking order depending on your need?

If you have a blue badge then you are entitled to park in a disabled bay regardless of the nature of your disability. This thread regards someone using a disabled parking bay to which they were not entitled.

Elderly 3 points
Wheelchair user 5 points
Deaf 1 point
Blind 6 points
Heart condition 4 points depending on the medication
Learning disabilities 1 point
Mental Health problems 10 points (they might cry if they don't get a space)
Loss of limbs 1 point per limb with double points for legs.
Car boot buyer blue badge holder NIL POINTS (Oh I was looking forward to that one):D

Sorry but this part your post is just so rude and ignorant. I hope you never suffer any of those condtions and I hope you or nobody you know has any kind of mental illness.
How many points is it for an insenstive person who thinks they're funny?

On a serious note I think we do need different types of disabled parking spaces. Those that need wider access to vehicles like wheelchair users should have their own designated bays.

This sounds good in theory but at the moment we only have a single form of disabled parking space but even this is continually abused by thoughtless non disabled drivers who can't be bothered to walk an extra 50 yards. What hope is there is we had different kinds of bays? The only way it would work is if the bays could be enforced or maybe with something like spacehog which puts an electronic tag on the blue badge and also in the parking bay so when you try and park there you can only gain access with a tagged blue badge.

Poppy9

January_Embers wrote: »

No its not. Some supermarkets already do this kind of thing. So every advertising flyer thats get put on my car is causing criminal damage?:rolleyes:

OH says its Criminal damage and he enforces the law:rolleyes:

January_Embers wrote:

Sorry but this part your post is just so rude and ignorant. I hope you never suffer any of those condtions and I hope you or nobody you know has any kind of mental illness.
How many points is it for an insenstive person who thinks they're funny?

So you only object to the MI bit. How do you know I don't have a MI? How do you know I don't have (or had) a relative with it? You don't unless you search my posting history and then you might find the answer because it's there!

This thread is just another version of the same topics which regulary appears. Only pipped at the post by benefits (entitlement, fraud etc) and closely followed by the existence/need & use of Parent and toddler spaces. All the arguments have been made. Someone has pointed out thousands of times that supermarket car parks are private land etc. it's their only social outting. In real life away from anonymous forums people make jokey suggestions. We know we don't have to be oh so PC.

January_Embers wrote:

This sounds good in theory but at the moment we only have a single form of disabled parking space but even this is continually abused by thoughtless non disabled drivers who can't be bothered to walk an extra 50 yards. What hope is there is we had different kinds of bays? The only way it would work is if the bays could be enforced or maybe with something like spacehog which puts an electronic tag on the blue badge and also in the parking bay so when you try and park there you can only gain access with a tagged blue badge.

I would say it's the easiest to enforce. If red disabled bays were only for wheelchair users with red badge (or whatever colour pleases someone) I'm sure it would shame people into not parking in these bays. With regard blue badge parking I personally know of 6 people within my family (young and old, fit and disabled) who have blue badges. I think its one of the most over issued badges and has devalued the whole idea.

January_Embers

So you only object to the MI bit.

No I do not, I objected to the whole thing which if you read what I wrote you will see:
'I hope you never suffer any of those condtions and I hope you or nobody you know has any kind of mental illness.'

How do you know I don't have a MI? How do you know I don't have (or had) a relative with it? You don't unless you search my posting history and then you might find the answer because it's there!

I don't know and I'm not really that interested as I don't see whether or not you having a MI has anything to do with the thread to be honest.

I personally know of 6 people within my family (young and old, fit and disabled) who have blue badges. I think its one of the most over issued badges and has devalued the whole idea.

The process to obtain a Blue badge must differ from place to places. My doctors had to supply medical information when I applied for mine - perhaps would be a good idea if this happened everywhere.

dangeroussports

Ladies ladies.

Calm down.

You'll only end up smudging your eyeliner

IvanOpinion

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

Look the answer is simple, don't park in the bays marked 'DISABLED' unless you have the necessary badge.

Sometimes the easiest and most obvious answers are correct.

Ivan

IvanOpinion

Poppy9 wrote: »

So you only object to the MI bit. How do you know I don't have a MI?

I have read your posts and will gladly vouch for you

Ivan

Poppy9

IvanOpinion wrote: »

I have read your posts and will gladly vouch for you :DIvan

We knew we could rely on you;)

dangeroussports

lol....ploppy9!

heather38

i saw a young woman having an argument with an older couple the other day in my local tesco. the young woman asked to see the badge of the older couple as they had parked in a disabled space and they were both walking away from the car. the man lifted up his trouser leg and showed off his metal false leg and asked the young woman if he was disabled enough for her.
the woman went white and started spluttering apologies. not all disablilities are quite so obvious.
and i'll rock the boat abit here. don't park in a mother and baby space if you don't have a baby. i don't care if you're disabled or not, i still need to open my door wide to get the car seat out.
our local multistory has 12 parent spaces and 40 disabled ones over 2 floors and disabled people still park in the parent ones, the normal spaces are not wide enough to open my car door.

klondyke

As it happens, I have a blue badge, but didn't feel up to accompanying my oh on a shopping expedition. He came back exhausted. Apparently our local Sainsbury has completely resurfaced its car park, but has made about 50% of bays for disabled. Presumably this is a mistake which will be rectified imminently, but in the meantime, he felt, as many others did, that they shouldn't park in the disabled bays although it was quite a long walk to, and more exaustingly, from, the shop. Lots of other peeps simply ignored the disabled markings ....... I guess Sainsbury's had better sort it out quickly or they will lose all their able bodied customers!