disabled and parents parking

unholyangel

On another note. Clamping is outlawed in Scotland as they have deemed it to be extortion.

I have never quite managed to understand how clamping is extortion yet towing isnt? Especially when towing involves them depriving you of your property completely and charging even higher fee's than the clampers?

easy

I have to say that if anyone clamped my car whilst it was displaying my blue badge, I'd be on to the local press like a shot.

A few months ago I had to visit my local hospital. I turned up ages before my appt time, as I know parking can be difficult, but the car park was full, inc all the disabled spaces. I waited as long as I could to see if a space became free, but eventually had to park on a hatched area between a pathway and a grass verge.

When I returned, my car had a parking ticket (which I ignored and was never followed up), but if my car had been clamped I would have rung my local paper, the bigger Nottingham evening paper, and the local BBC news desk to get the matter covered.

Inciderntally, I did make sure I wasn't obstructing any fire exits or major access routes when I parked.

jblack_2

So clamping a blue badge holder is worse than clamping someone else? Care to explain why?

gregg1

jblack wrote: »

So clamping a blue badge holder is worse than clamping someone else? Care to explain why?

I think it would be obvious to most people!

atomicsheep

easy wrote: »

I have to say that if anyone clamped my car whilst it was displaying my blue badge, I'd be on to the local press like a shot.

A few months ago I had to visit my local hospital. I turned up ages before my appt time, as I know parking can be difficult, but the car park was full, inc all the disabled spaces. I waited as long as I could to see if a space became free, but eventually had to park on a hatched area between a pathway and a grass verge.

When I returned, my car had a parking ticket (which I ignored and was never followed up), but if my car had been clamped I would have rung my local paper, the bigger Nottingham evening paper, and the local BBC news desk to get the matter covered.

Inciderntally, I did make sure I wasn't obstructing any fire exits or major access routes when I parked.

I guess it all depends whether you were blocking something else. You said you parked between a walkway and a verge. Did this stop people getting past perhaps?

King_Nothing

easy wrote: »

I have to say that if anyone clamped my car whilst it was displaying my blue badge, I'd be on to the local press like a shot.

A few months ago I had to visit my local hospital. I turned up ages before my appt time, as I know parking can be difficult, but the car park was full, inc all the disabled spaces. I waited as long as I could to see if a space became free, but eventually had to park on a hatched area between a pathway and a grass verge.

When I returned, my car had a parking ticket (which I ignored and was never followed up), but if my car had been clamped I would have rung my local paper, the bigger Nottingham evening paper, and the local BBC news desk to get the matter covered.

Inciderntally, I did make sure I wasn't obstructing any fire exits or major access routes when I parked.

A blue badge isn't a "park anywhere you like permit" you know.

jblack_2

gregg1 wrote: »

I think it would be obvious to most people!

Obviously not to me!

How is it more of an inconvenience to a disabled person than to an able bodied person to have your car clamped? The car is rendered immobilised in both cases until the clamp is removed?

In essence what is being said is that disabled people should not be clamped. What a load of rubbish. Maybe they shouldn't be ticketed for speeding either or for running red lights?

jblack_2

King_Nothing wrote: »

A blue badge isn't a "park anywhere you like permit" you know.

It would seem that some believe it is. Hence the "How dare you clamp me. Don't you know who I am" attitude.

cyberbob

easy wrote: »

I have to say that if anyone clamped my car whilst it was displaying my blue badge, I'd be on to the local press like a shot.

A few months ago I had to visit my local hospital. I turned up ages before my appt time, as I know parking can be difficult, but the car park was full, inc all the disabled spaces. I waited as long as I could to see if a space became free, but eventually had to park on a hatched area between a pathway and a grass verge.

When I returned, my car had a parking ticket (which I ignored and was never followed up), but if my car had been clamped I would have rung my local paper, the bigger Nottingham evening paper, and the local BBC news desk to get the matter covered.

Inciderntally, I did make sure I wasn't obstructing any fire exits or major access routes when I parked.

Attitudes like this make it difficult for the blue badge holders who understand and follow the rules and realise as much as the BB is there to help them with their needs it does not give them rights over anyone else or put them above the rules or the law

Hopefully your local paper and BBC would have realised what a selfish and unreasonable person you were and that you were putting BB holders in a bad light so would ignore you and your selfish ways.

gregg1

jblack wrote: »

Obviously not to me!

How is it more of an inconvenience to a disabled person than to an able bodied person to have your car clamped? The car is rendered immobilised in both cases until the clamp is removed?

In essence what is being said is that disabled people should not be clamped. What a load of rubbish. Maybe they shouldn't be ticketed for speeding either or for running red lights?

Anyone with half a brain could see that effectively having their car out of service has the potential to cause a greater problem for someone with a disability compared to an abled bodied person - I am amazed that anyone would need the reasons explaining to them.

Furthermore, I cannot see where anyone is saying that disabled people should be immune to all rules and regulations when it comes to driving, neither is anyone saying disabled folk should not be clamped.