Blue Badge 'police'

Brassedoff

pwales wrote: »

sigh

life without legs is hard enough without this kind of incosiderate behavour,
i give up with you ...park how you like, let your able body freinds park as close as they like using your badge.
good night , i havnt got the strengh to debate this tonight

Dave if you think about it you might have a different viewpoint. Yes I know it's allowed in the book but it does not make it right. My first ever question on here was about whether there should be two types of blue badges, one that showed an inability to walk or far and one that could be issued to the "walking wounded". I was greeted by bile and abuse that these boards can chuck out. By the question still stands, as there are three bands of DLA, should there not be a couple of different blue badges? I am now aware not to be judgemental and not claim my disability is worse than that of others for fear of having my wrists slapped, but there should be a difference.

Coming back to the issue at hand, I suppose it's about morals, if you and others are happy for mates to use your badge, or to sit in the car whilst the wife to get "moral" pecuniary advantage by virtue of taking a space that others can make more practical use of, then fine. Take in below:

Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

Yes I know it is more well known from Pulp Fiction, but the original bad mother was God and misue the blue badge at peril

dave030445

Brassedoff wrote: »

Dave if you think about it you might have a different viewpoint. Yes I know it's allowed in the book but it does not make it right. My first ever question on here was about whether there should be two types of blue badges, one that showed an inability to walk or far and one that could be issued to the "walking wounded". I was greeted by bile and abuse that these boards can chuck out. By the question still stands, as there are three bands of DLA, should there not be a couple of different blue badges? I am now aware not to be judgemental and not claim my disability is worse than that of others for fear of having my wrists slapped, but there should be a difference.

Coming back to the issue at hand, I suppose it's about morals, if you and others are happy for mates to use your badge, or to sit in the car whilst the wife to get "moral" pecuniary advantage by virtue of taking a space that others can make more practical use of, then fine. Take in below:

Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

Yes I know it is more well known from Pulp Fiction, but the original bad mother was God and misue the blue badge at peril

You silly person no thats to tame lets think of a better word ah yes prat.

Brassedoff

dave030445 wrote: »

You silly person no thats to tame lets think of a better word ah yes prat.

Ho ho ho, no, that's not my impression of Santa (for all those kids out there) is that the best you can retort? Ok, at least I am not a person who on the face of it from your own admittance a morally bankrupt person who is out for themselves! I wonder where else you may "stretch" the rules?

lyniced

I have managed to get a new timer (my old one was knackered) although I'm guessing by all these threads that no-one very interested in that! Carry on and Keep Calm!

Brassedoff

lyniced wrote: »

I have managed to get a new timer (my old one was knackered) although I'm guessing by all these threads that no-one very interested in that! Carry on and Keep Calm!

Is there anywhere you can get a more durable plastic version instead of the cardboard one? I am on my third one and that needs replacing as I use it all the time when I park up and leave the car;)

stefos

I don't go out in the car very often so for me to end up in a supermarket car park usually means that I have been to the hospital first or the doctors or dentist etc so the shopping is merely a diversion. My wife in the past has parked in a conventional space when the disabled bays are full as I have no intention of getting out of the car (my other half will have no doubt lifted me in and out of the wheelchair a minimum of six times since arising by this time anyway), but sitting for three quarters of an hour in a confined space not being able to see anything apart from the occasional bobbing head on the other side of parked cars is a bit like being in solitary confinement! I'm sure your hearts' bleed for me No, give me the wide open spaces of the disabled bays any time where I can sit people watching and being judgemental about other blue badge users coming and going...
Being pushed around a supermarket in a wheelchair is not my idea of fun anyway where people exchange tolerance for trolleys and I just have a birds eye view of so many backsides, fewer and fewer of which stimulate my imagination these days! I shan't mention the smells that permeate at that level either.
So if I'm not going to be able to while away my time without somebody insisting that I shouldn't be sitting in the car at all I shall just tell them that my wife has gone to the toilet first as the effort of getting me out of the car tends to put a strain on her weak bladder, I'm sure they will understand... I know I'll never get to heaven being so selfish!

In my electric wheelchair I frequently go to a local beauty spot where the 'premium' car park viewing spot is for blue badge users and practically always the cars will have elderly couples inside admiring the view while drinking from a flask and eating sandwiches. I suppose they are abusing the system as well, though not in a million years would I think of saying anything.

Dictated using speech recognition software - the spelling is guaranteed, the grammar aren't.

G-MIKI

To Dave030445

So let me ask a question.

If, on a day when you do need to get out of the car, you arrive at the carpark to find all of the spaces taken by people who have decided to sit in their car whilst their other half/helper/friend/whoever goes shopping and therefore you cannot park and go shopping yourself you would think that is OK??

I think I know the answer to that one.

It can never be right to use the parking space to sit in your car if it stops other genuine users from going about their business.

cissmiace

And some of you people are exactly the reason I have never applied for a BB.

I am 29, I have been ill with M.E. since I was 21, I have developed a variety of other problems through this, and I also have leg problems, Knee problems, back problems and hip problems.
I am constantly in pain, and find it exceptionally difficult and painful to get out of cars in normal parking spaces.

I constantly have dirty looks from sitting at the front of a bus.

The people who are the most rude, offensive, and judging, are the elderly. And boy are they not afraid to share their opinions with you.

Because I look well, therefore I must be well.

I thought I'd read this thread and re consider getting a badge, but all I see is 'my disability is worse than yours' rubbish I get every other day.

You have no room to complain when other people dont give you the time and consideration when you cant even do it yourselfs.

Shameful.

Contemplates

:T:T:T:T:T:T round of applause :T:T:T:T:T:T

Well said Cissmiace!

Brassedoff

cissmiace, if you are entitled to one, get one. If you cannot live with the fact that some are worse than others when it comes to disability, how do you get on with the rest of life where we are not all the same?

Is cheeses me right off, when on the face of it I see someone run to and from a car with a blue badge and I, a person unable to walk more than 20 metres cannot park and enjoy the same facility.