Money Moral Dilemma: Would you park free if it blocked wheelchair access?

Katie-Kat-Kins

Magic-Ian wrote: »

You can only get a badge if you are disabled.!!! You may not see a disabilty but the badge means that they have a mobility problem. It does not mean they have a wheelchair. We don't win those badges in a raffle. I would prefer to be able to park further away rather than have a disability, but as it is, if I cannot get a space near to the shop, I cannot shop.

You also can't get a blue badge if you have a disability that doesn't affect your ability to get around.

So anyone displaying a blue badge legally has a problem getting around albeit that they may not be in a wheelchair 100% of the time. If for example you are profoundly deaf you cannot have a blue badge, even though you are disabled.

Those who misuse the blue badge by displaying it and parking in disabled spaces when they don't have the owner of the badge with them really are low! The worst thing is that they make life difficult for those with less visible disabilities who often get abuse as they are suspected of misusing the system.

puddings_2

Magic-Ian wrote: »

My answer to anyone that says yes they would park there, is:- If you want my parking space then have my disability.
Nothing annoys me more than trying to find a disabled bay at my local store (TESCO) only to find that half the bays are taken up by lazy ***** (put in your own) that think that it does not apply to them. The manager says there is nothing he can do!

Well Ian, nothing annoys me more than people like you that jump into arguments swearing and cursing without even understading what is being discused.

Does your disability prevent you from reading? Who is talking about parking in disabled bays? The dilemma is about parking or not parking in a normal space behind a vehicle asking for an extra six foot of space.

The question basically is... Does a disabled driver have the right to take up an extra normal parking space?

roses

I would park in the space if I was legally allowed to do so.

If the guy in the wheelchair needed two parking spaces to get into his/her car then surely they should have parked somewhere more appropriate?

If I didn't park there then someone else would if it were a busy weekend afternoon.

poohbear59

No, never ever park a wheelchair disabled person in!

Scarlet_Fever

BigSky wrote: »

Absolutely NOT! Only the most ignorant lazy !!!!!! would do that.

I’d park in a “family” parking bay though even if I was on my own. Why should people that decide to bring their screaming, fat, badly-behaved kids round the supermarket get special parking bays?

i have parked in family spaces when i had my young children with me. they are not fat, don't scream that often, and when we are out are mostly well behaved. (they're a little older now, and i dont need to opne the door really wide to get a chair out....

also - at the risk of flaming..... if the sticker is a 'permanent' sticker (as in, not a movable bit of paper...) would you be sure that the wheelchair person is with the car? most likely they are... but..... its a thought6

gilligansyle

I would never deliberately block someones wheelchair access, but have recently been put in the position of appearing to block one of those mini van type things. I had parked up to go to the post office, and there was plenty of space in front of me for another car to park. When I returned, there was a van in front of me, with only a 2 foot gap, and a notice on my car accusing me of being inconsiderate. For not predicting that someone in a wheelchair was going to come along 5 minutes later?? I am in receipt of DLA myself and have a blue badge, but hadn't used it on this occasion as it appeared there was plenty of parking.

nathanhill69

roses wrote: »

If I didn't park there then someone else would if it were a busy weekend afternoon.

Seems sad that you would make your decision based on that criteria, how is society ever going to improve with that perspective?

Sure, it may be slightly irritating if you're looking for an elusive parking space on a Saturday afternoon but is it really worth causing someone, who is obviously genuinely disabled, requiring a wheel chair, the stress and dis-comfort of not being able to get in their car. I'm able bodied so the inconvenience of having to park further away is no great hardship, however someone who is confined to a wheel chair and may need to be pushed around by their carer the hardship is so much greater the further they have to park from their destination. You could argue that possibly the disabled person has not shown you consideration in their parking but life is to short and is it not better to take the higher and more considerate ground?

tinribs69

DEFINITELY NOT!,
If you were in the car in front and needed the six foot it's obvious you need it,you wouldn't put a sticker in the back for the hell of it! Apart from that those stickers are only supplied for the ones needing them.:mad:

wisewoman

Absolutely not. My friend is in a wheelchair, and I have witnessed how inconsiderate parking makes things even harder for her...in particular, cars parked across the stretches of pavement which have been lowered for wheelchair access. Go pay the £5 fee, and thank your stars that you have the choice, and are not restricted by a disability.

SusanC_2

BigSky wrote: »

I’d park in a “family” parking bay though even if I was on my own. Why should people that decide to bring their screaming, fat, badly-behaved kids round the supermarket get special parking bays?

So that when they have to open the door really wide to get the said children in and out they don't dent your car.

Glad I don't live where you do - I've not seem any "screaming, fat, badly-behaved kids" in the supermarkets I frequent.