How to get Free PArking Badges?

delbay

Hi
I see many people around who can park for free and they don't have any health problem.
Is there any chance to get a badge to park for free on those yellow lines and best parking places for free?
Cheers

jockettuk

are you a doctor do you know they have not actual health problems.. i have a friend who is 37 and has ms.. one day she is in a wheelchair next mabey able to walk with a stick and somedays she can walk unaided so you dont actually know if someone with a badge is ill or not.... yes there are some who use the badges of others and if caught should be prosecuted but dont judge all the same

Pat__3

Hi
I see many people around who can park for free and they don't have any health problem.
Is there any chance to get a badge to park for free on those yellow lines and best parking places for free?
Cheers

This kind of remark always gets me too.
Unless you are in a wheelchair people take it for granted that you must not be disabled or as you put it in bad health.
So we all have to be in wheelchairs to prove apoint do we >:(

There are lots of disabilities that are not visable so do we have to walk round with a sign on us giving people an explanation with what is wrong with us - I don't think so >:(

These people know doubt that you see are perhaps the people that take up our disable places as they are too lazy to walk or get wet in the rain ???.
Believe me there are plenty of people who don't look disable who are who would gladly swop places with someone that was healthy and did'nt have difficulty walking or pain from trying to walk.
There is a saying about "walking a mile in the other mans shoes first - then comment"

You just sound like a wind up to me.
Get a life >:(

lisyloo

Delbay,

As others have said it is impossible for you to tell what the persons problems are just from looking.

Someone may be in terrible pain walking or may have to rest for 24 hours aferwards after walking a short distance.
The problems my not be apparent to you.

Also it is entirely legal for an able-bodied person to park in disabled places IF they are picking up a disabled person.

I wouldn't be quite so quick to judgement if I were you.

Disability is not necessarily obvious.
It may be symtoms they get afterwards that are the problem.

Of course, there is also a certain amount of abuse, but you can't make that judgement just by looking unless you were highly qualified and even then I suspect you'd need to do more thanjsut look.

flub_2

I will not be so polite as the others. You should be bloody ashamed of yourself!! I was injured whilst serving in Northern Ireland and due to nerve damage am classed as disabled. Some days I can walk, others not. Plus you can get caught out. If you are registered as disabled, you get your road fund licence free of charge. If you don't take it, you lose your badge. Your badge can be checked against your tax disk.

Before you judge me, walk a mile in my shoes or my wheelchair.

Flub

loopyloo_4

I have only just seen this thread. My mother has MS and has disabled parking badges. She may look fit and healthy but make her walk more than 50 meters and she will collapse in a heap!

Argh this makes me so ANGRY >:( :-X

gollum_2

Just to agree with all replies so far - is it such a hardship to walk a couple of hundred yards if you are able?

Hope delbay has guts to respond.

loopyloo_4

Me too.

This makes me as angry as the people that park in disabled bays when they do NOT have badges so my poor mum has to walk miles because all the spaces are taken up.

By the time she gets anywhere near the shop she's too exhausted to walk around it for 5 mintues!

AARGH >:(

System

If my memory serves me correct, we had to provide a great deal of proof to be awarded a "blue badge" for my wife. To glance at my wife standing upright, you would wonder why she qualifies. But ask that she walks just 3/4 steps, and she would be on the ground.

After a period of years as a warden of a sheltered housing complex, she developed shingles, not to her body but to the side of her face. The infection traveled into her ear and eventually caused a total lack of balance, distorted hearing & facial palsy. This at the age of 51. She now has become a virtual prisoner in her own home, that is unless I take her out. I have a deteriorating kidney, a urinary diversion and recently a heart attack.

So it does me no end of good to read that "on looking" at someone, you seem able to diagnose and prognosticate about something you clearly have very little knowledge about.

Long may you enjoy good health. (You miserable old sod)

Js_Other_Half

This must be a wind up.

I work with disabled children in a residential setting. We have special dispensation for a blue badge as we look after over 60 kids a month. Some of the kids have obvious disablities - mobility problems etc, and some of them aren't so obvious.

I never assume anyone is using the system unless they are parked as close as they can to a cash machine and are strolling back from it with money in their hand!

bbruce

I see no further comment ventured by Delbay!
If he wants to become disabled there are those who could arrange it!
I often feel like saying that to people who park in supermarket disabled bays as they seem to get away with it permanently but I don't have the bottle!
I feel safer saying it here anonymously and avoiding a black eye or worse! >:(