Blue Badge Argument

colin13

hi I suffer from MS although I can still walk wit aid of stick,,
anyway,,was out yesterday with wife,at B&Qand a few other shops in the retail park,,and I walked about all the shops we went into,,on way home we stopped in at morrisons for some shopping,,I put my blue badge on show ,,but I sat in car,,as by this time I was tired,,some dogooder chapped my window and asked if I was holder I told them yes,,she then started ranting and raving,,about misuse of blue badge and parking space,,I listen and then told her to mind her own f***ing buisness,,she was not a happy person,,, has this happened to any1 else

Tally-Ho_2

Hi,

I suupose it is bacuase the blue badge is for your benefit, ie you should leave the vehicle, not sit in it whilst an able bodied person gets out and goes shopping etc. Therefore you should not really use the badge in that situation.

However, legally the blue badge regulations do not apply on private car parks (such as shop car parks etc) so legally you haven't done anything wrong albeit morally you should only use the badge if you are getting out of or going back to the car on a private car park.

If it had been on a public road then you would have committed an offence.

Tally

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Next time, you could say 'No - I'm the badge holder's trained assassin'. If they go 'Wot?', say, completely deadpan 'I'm here to eliminate any meddling idiots who go sticking their noses into things which are none of their business'.

It's the business of a traffic warden (or whatever the correct term is these days) when you are parked on the highway, not a random stranger's outside B&Q.

Invasion

It does say in the book that you get with your blue badge that you can only park in a disabled space with your badge if you're getting out of the car. Whether it's legal or not, it's common sense surely?

Why should you park in a disabled space if you're not going to get out of the car? You're taking up a space that someone else- who is going to get out of the car- needs to be able to get into that shop. What if it was you that wanted a disabled space, so that you could walk into a shop, but they were all full of people who had parked in those spaces despite the fact they weren't going to get out? I can't imagine you'd be very happy with that either!

You were in the wrong, not the person who asked you why you were in a disabled space if you weren't getting out the car.

skiTTish

I can kind of understand really ,unless your other half is also disabled?
The whole idea of the badge is so that you don't have to walk far to the shops .
If you are sat in the car then you are taking up a space that someone could use that does have difficulty and cant walk far .

Amazing you got a badge tbh ,if you said you walked around all the shops you went to ?
Couldn't get one for my mum with Alzheimer's and arthritis ,because she could [STRIKE]walk[/STRIKE] shuffle more than a few meters whilst holding on to me !?!:(

McKneff

You were misusing your badge.

If you were so abusive to the person she could very well report you for it.
You can, in fact, have the priveledge of the blue badge taken away.
It says all this in your terms and conditions.

Vicky123

Some people have just got nothing else to worry about, would they prefer you get out and start to feel ill?
I haven't applied for a blue badge for my son although he is absolutely entitled, just couldn't be bothered with all self appointed guardians of the bays who themselves are obviously above reproach in everything they do.

McKneff

Vicky123 wrote: »

Some people have just got nothing else to worry about, would they prefer you get out and start to feel ill?
I haven't applied for a blue badge for my son although he is absolutely entitled, just couldn't be bothered with all self appointed guardians of the bays who themselves are obviously above reproach in everything they do.

Its not a case of self appointed guardians.
In my opinion if someone challenges someone who is not entitled to be
parked (ie able bodied) in a disabled bay they are looking out for those people who are entitled to one. ie disabled.

If you asked every disabled person who had a badge:-

Would you rather not have a badge and be fit
or
Have a badge and be disabled.

No guesses what the 100% answer would be.

Vicky123

McKneff wrote: »

Its not a case of self appointed guardians.
In my opinion if someone challenges someone who is not entitled to be
parked (ie able bodied) in a disabled bay they are looking out for those people who are entitled to one. ie disabled.

If you asked every disabled person who had a badge:-

Would you rather not have a badge and be fit
or
Have a badge and be disabled.

No guesses what the 100% answer would be.

You are wrong about who is entitled to a badge, able bodied is not an exclusion, severe mental impairment is also counted so these people are going to be very busy indeed challenging everyone who parks in a disabled bay in my sons case I am kept far too busy caring for his disability to be going around challenging everyone else

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I've got better things to do with my energy than to trot around harassing other people displaying blue badges. It's got s*d all to do with me what or who has the medical condition as I don't have the right to question them any more than they have the right to challenge me about my medical condition.

In my opinion, if they have the energy to start having a go at me and demanding to know my medical details, they obviously have greater strength and energy than I do, and I would suggest that they consider whether they do actually need the blue badge.

Don't forget, until the OP confirmed that the badge was theirs, the other person had accosted a random stranger displaying a blue badge, so had made assumptions and judgements about both people that were initially in the car, something which is the bane of many disabled people's lives.

dmg24

Invasion wrote: »

It does say in the book that you get with your blue badge that you can only park in a disabled space with your badge if you're getting out of the car. Whether it's legal or not, it's common sense surely?

No, it does not.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/adobepdf/259428/281009/bluebadgescheme.pdf