Parking at Tesco.

GlasweJen

Up until last week I worked for asda and their policy was that anyone can use the disabled parking spaces as long as they needed it. So blue badge holders were the obvious but anyone with a broken leg, who had an elderly relative who has reduced mobility, someone who is blind etc could all approach customer services when they arrived at the store and explain their circumstances to prevent their registration number being called across the PA system when they were in shopping.

Blue badge holders might not like it but there are people who don't hold a blue badge but who can benefit from a larger space closer to the store.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'm having a curious sense of Deja Vu. [wanders off as really cannot be bothered with the usual histrionics]

daska

I used to live on a short stretch of 'private' road next to the station and the town centre and bordered by resident's parking. As you can imagine there were a lot of cars left in our road which caused a lot of ill-feeling as we were not allowed to use the resident parking bays. The local policeman advised us that lipstick on a car windscreen would not be classed as criminal damage as it could be removed without causing damage - though he did suggest that using it on the side windows might be better as it would not obscure the driver's vision if they rolled the window down. The very helpful policeman also suggested using stickers on the windows, a suggestion we adopted with great success. Neither causes any damage, merely inconvenience.

FleurDuLys

lucylucky wrote: »

I think not to be honest.

Whatever you wish to think, what I say is correct. It is however a civil matter, so you would not be breaking any national laws by parking in a Blue Badge space (or on yellow lines on their land, or even if you just dumped your car in the middle of the car park right in the way of others). If they have made clear their expectations of you as a user of their carpark and the penalties that they would seek if you break those expectations, and you choose to use their carpark and do just that, then they have grounds to take you to civil court or to ban you from the supermarket or whatever they wish to do.

Ziggazee

Ok, so lipstick on a car may not be classed as criminal damage, but it's downright disrespectful. What gives a member of the public the right to deface someone's car just because they don't like what they're doing. To be fair, the person in the car park who did this has no idea exactly why the driver had parked their car there. Why can't people just get on with their lives and stop sticking their noses into other people's business?

lilac_lady

sunnyone wrote: »

with any luck we will follow Scotland soon and make all disabled bay abuse illegal.

Is this correct?

I don't have a blue badge and have NEVER parked in a disabled bay but I know someone who uses their partner's badge themselves when the disabled person isn't in the car. There are selfish people everywhere.

sunnyone

Ziggazee wrote: »

Ok, so lipstick on a car may not be classed as criminal damage, but it's downright disrespectful. What gives a member of the public the right to deface someone's car just because they don't like what they're doing. To be fair, the person in the car park who did this has no idea exactly why the driver had parked their car there. Why can't people just get on with their lives and stop sticking their noses into other people's business?

I wish that it was just lipstick left on my car in supermarket carparks, instead it is scratches, one so deep its through the paint!

lucylucky

FleurDuLys wrote: »

Whatever you wish to think, what I say is correct. It is however a civil matter, so you would not be breaking any national laws by parking in a Blue Badge space (or on yellow lines on their land, or even if you just dumped your car in the middle of the car park right in the way of others). If they have made clear their expectations of you as a user of their carpark and the penalties that they would seek if you break those expectations, and you choose to use their carpark and do just that, then they have grounds to take you to civil court or to ban you from the supermarket or whatever they wish to do.

And what enforceable penalties might they be?

wobblygreg

Im afraid some of the replies are just typical of society we live in , someone who writes on someones car with lipstick (which easily wipes off)is threatened with violence by some yet no word or concern for the poor limbless/disabled/right to be in disabled bay person that might have had to just go home as there was no parking space for them.
Maybe the person in the mini (strange choice of car if you have bad legs)had forgotten thier badge but unlikely, if your able bodied and havent got a blue badge dont use the bays.
Why do some people always assume they are so special and can just do what they want and disobey rules and that those that point it out are busibodies sad very sad.

SingleSue

wobblygreg wrote: »

Im afraid some of the replies are just typical of society we live in , someone who writes on someones car with lipstick (which easily wipes off)is threatened with violence by some yet no word or concern for the poor limbless/disabled/right to be in disabled bay person that might have had to just go home as there was no parking space for them.
Maybe the person in the mini (strange choice of car if you have bad legs)had forgotten thier badge but unlikely, if your able bodied and havent got a blue badge dont use the bays.
Why do some people always assume they are so special and can just do what they want and disobey rules and that those that point it out are busibodies sad very sad.

Bolded part - what if you are not able bodied and don't have a blue badge? Some people are disabled but have either too much pride to apply for a blue badge or have been turned down even though they may qualify in another county.

N.B I don't use the bays despite being mobility aid reliant....because I don't have a blue badge! I am one of those who is a stickler for the rules . I need a wide area to get in or out of the car but usually work around this by finding a space where there is no car by the drivers side..although this week, I did that and a car parked up next to me just as I was going to get out and I couldn't even open the door let alone get out...I moved to a different space in the car park instead.