Parking at Tesco.

grumpyofwhitecross

Today we parked in our local Tesco, in a disabled bay, and when we came out we noticed that the Mini next to us, also a disabled space, did not have a blue badge displayed. My wife got into the car and I started packing the shopping. She said " look at the mini " so I did , and a lady was writing on the windscreen with a lipstick... NO BLUE BADGE..

We talked to this lady , who said she had had to park much further away as there were no spare spaces, due to people like this..

All I can say is More Power to Her Lipstick and well done. :A :j

welshgirl_michelle

i hate it when you see many cars parking in disabled with no blue badges displayed .. its a shame because the genuine people who need the space have 2 park much further away .. but saying that i am a blue badge holder & not long ago i was parked in tesco disabled, blue badge displayed (was only in tesco 10mins) by the time i came out i had a note put on my windscreen!! said something along the lines of 'why are you parked in disabled, lazy !!!!!es' - im only 25 and people tend to think that it isnt my badge because im so young ... its very unfair because people judge without knowing facts

dmg24

grumpyofwhitecross wrote: »

Today we parked in our local Tesco, in a disabled bay, and when we came out we noticed that the Mini next to us, also a disabled space, did not have a blue badge displayed. My wife got into the car and I started packing the shopping. She said " look at the mini " so I did , and a lady was writing on the windscreen with a lipstick... NO BLUE BADGE..

We talked to this lady , who said she had had to park much further away as there were no spare spaces, due to people like this..

All I can say is More Power to Her Lipstick and well done. :A :j

Well done for committing criminal damage? You (and the lady committing the act) really need to get some perspective.

olias

dmg24 wrote: »

Well done for committing criminal damage? You (and the lady committing the act) really need to get some perspective.

I agree.

I am not a blue badge holder, nor is my wife, but I have used these bays before. On one occasion I had broken my leg and my wife was driving so I needed the benefit of the wide bay in order to fully open the door to get out. I could not walk far either so being near the supermarket helped. On another occasion my wife, who suffers with degenerative disc disease in her back, was having a bad day and was in a lot of pain and so couldn't walk far (I was driving). I consider on both of these occasions I had as much right to use one of these bays as someone with a 'special' badge they had been given just because their disability was permanent rather than temporary.

Olias

FleurDuLys

Is there a reason you or your wife do not hold a blue badge, Olias?

Unfortunately you do not have the right to use blue badge bays, unless you hold a blue badge. Whether you consider yourself to have the right is irrelevant; the bays are not for your use.

C_Mababejive

Shes a cheeky !!!!!. If it were my mini I would wipe the lipstick off with her head.

olias

FleurDuLys wrote: »

Is there a reason you or your wife do not hold a blue badge, Olias?

Unfortunately you do not have the right to use blue badge bays, unless you hold a blue badge. Whether you consider yourself to have the right is irrelevant; the bays are not for your use.

No blue badge as my wife is not cosidered disabled enough (!) even though she is registered disabled for another disability that does not impact so much on her mobility

AS for the use of the bays, I am happy that on the occasions stated I had a moral right to use them.

Olias

somethingcorporate

Do blue badges or diabled bays hold any grounds in law on private land? (aside from mob rule as demonstrated by the OPs post).

System

FleurDuLys wrote: »

Unfortunately you do not have the right to use blue badge bays, unless you hold a blue badge. Whether you consider yourself to have the right is irrelevant; the bays are not for your use.

Unfortunately that is totally incorrect. If the car park is privately owned Blue Badge & disabled bays have absolutely no legal force. Anybody can park in them

CouponWoman

olias wrote: »

I agree.

I am not a blue badge holder, nor is my wife, but I have used these bays before. On one occasion I had broken my leg and my wife was driving so I needed the benefit of the wide bay in order to fully open the door to get out. I could not walk far either so being near the supermarket helped. On another occasion my wife, who suffers with degenerative disc disease in her back, was having a bad day and was in a lot of pain and so couldn't walk far (I was driving). I consider on both of these occasions I had as much right to use one of these bays as someone with a 'special' badge they had been given just because their disability was permanent rather than temporary.

Olias

Couldn't your wife have dropped you off in front of the supermarkets doors and then parked legally and morally in a normal space.

And when your wife was poorly couldn't you have done the same.

You really couldn't have been that bad as you were OK to walk around a supermarket for an hour or so , and you could have stayed home and let your wife do the shopping and vice versa when she was poorly.

Basically you did not have the right, morally or anything else to park in a disabled space. These are for certain disabled people with a permanent walking disability.

I spoke to an older man who had no legs and had driven himself to the supermarket and he could not shop as there was no disabled bays free, he needed one to set up his wheelchair and drag himself out of the drivers seat and into the wheelchair. He had to go home without his food. He told me he lived alone and did everything for himself but he said he frequently has to go home as selfish people kept parking in disabled bays.

So, no, you do not have any right to park in the disabled bays only people with blue badges do.

If your wife has a spinal condition she could apply for a blue badge, she doesn't necessarily need to receive Mobility allowance to do this.

FleurDuLys

!!!!!! wrote: »

Unfortunately that is totally incorrect. If the car park is privately owned Blue Badge & disabled bays have absolutely no legal force. Anybody can park in them

They have no legal force, but anyone parking on private land enters into a contract with the owner of that land based on what the owner expects of them. If the owner of the land has made it clear that certain bays are provided just for the holders of blue badges then those who do not hold badges should not get uppity if the owner of the land challenges them about it, or if genuine blue badge holders do. People parking on private land don't have "the right" to be there; they have accepted that they are using the land subject to the landowner's permission, and in accepting that they accept the owner's terms and conditions.

This has all been discussed before ad nauseum though, and it does not justify the action of the person in the OP's post.