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Blitz on Disabled Parking Cheats by Supermarkets
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I was in Tesco's this morning and heard them call out the registration number of a car, and asked the owners to come to the customer services desk, so I think someone must have started complaining already. Good for them! I won't hesitate to do it in future.0
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I was in Tesco's this morning and heard them call out the registration number of a car, and asked the owners to come to the customer services desk, so I think someone must have started complaining already. Good for them! I won't hesitate to do it in future.
How do you know the registration number belonged to a car that had parked in a disabled parking space without a badge?
So far as this article from the daily express (yawnnnnnnnnnnn) the fatal flaws in the plan have already been pointed out by other posters so I wont hold my breath for Mr T to start dishing out parking fines surely the would be more concerned with shoppers going elsewhere should they be given a ticket?
Whilst on the subject surely the "sharing" of badges to none disabled people should be of more importance? Or indeed the thousands of people who have the badge and the brand new car all funded by the government but still play football on a Sunday, or have no problem "running" round Tesco doing the weekly shop?
Another yawwwwwwwwwwn of an article from the express, just a thought but who will get the money from the parking fines? Tesco? The private scum that put the ticket on the windscreen? Anyone who knows anything would just screw it up and throw it in the bin anyway so whats the point to begin with??
Maybe if the supermarkets were a little more generous with there car parking spaces and didn't try to squeeze us all in like battary chickens this might help to solve the problem? A few more car parking spcaes for parents with toddlers would not go amiss either, at my local tesco they have 2 huge lines of disabled car parking spaces there must be at leat 60 of them compared to 11 parent toddler spaces, now come on surely there are more people with young children going to any tesco than disabled people?
Anyhow dont worry to many "dodgy" laws would need passing before it actually happened.
Dont get me wrong I understand why these disabled spaces are important and why they are needed so if you do park in them without a badge then DONT its basic manners! If you were on a bus and someone got on with crutches and there were no seats would you not get up and offer them your seat? The why take a parking space that someone disabled would need? Manners!"You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure"Sir Winston Churchill0 -
jetta_wales wrote: »
I'm sorry, but you could argue that they should provide bigger spaces for all cars. We all don't drive dinky toys! I have a Range Rover that just about fits. It cost me in excess of £70,000!!
Yes I see your point, but on the other hand I don't want to come back and find that some wally with his beaten up old Fiesta has slammed into my car door!
If you want me to, I'll take up two spaces instead like I have to in some car parks - notably Halfords and Homebase.
Ohh I so sympathise! Of course if you have expensive goods you really need to protect them. That bashed up car next to you - the owner obviously doesn't care as much as you about their transport. That you have left them little room to open their door without touching the immaculate paintwork of your 70K Land Rover isof no concern of yours! Hope they don't dent the bodywork - but probably won't as 70K buys really tough steel, me thinks. More likely they put a dent in their door - and quite right too - natural justice, of course.
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Just to clarify you've quoted their post with a quote not properly done so it's out my name by their post in the quote but it was most definitely not me that holds that view (or the keys to a Range).
Ohh I so sympathise! Of course if you have expensive goods you really need to protect them. That bashed up car next to you - the owner obviously doesn't care as much as you about their transport. That you have left them little room to open their door without touching the immaculate paintwork of your 70K Land Rover isof no concern of yours! Hope they don't dent the bodywork - but probably won't as 70K buys really tough steel, me thinks. More likely they put a dent in their door - and quite right too - natural justice, of course.
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I can't believe anybody could actually think like that and speak up about it thinking they are clearly well justified in their view that their cars paintwork is more important than a child's safety.
Yes take two regular spaces like a prat if you must, rather than take a safe space from a family with small children.
Either a very very unpleasant fool or a Troll. Probably a bit of both."Life is what you make of it, whoever got anywhere without some passion and ambition?0 -
It's not me that hasn't left them much room, it's the width of the spaces that is the problem! When I park it in an ordinary space there is no more than 4" between the while lines and my wheels. In other words, the width of my vehicle is just under 8" less than the space I am supposed to park in.
Wouldn't the management allow you to park in the delivery bays where the other trucks go? They're quite wide and very expensive with loads of gears and stuff.0 -
I'm sorry, but you could argue that they should provide bigger spaces for all cars. We all don't drive dinky toys! I have a Range Rover that just about fits. It cost me in excess of £70,000!!
Yes I see your point, but on the other hand I don't want to come back and find that some wally with his beaten up old Fiesta has slammed into my car door!
If you want me to, I'll take up two spaces instead like I have to in some car parks - notably Halfords and Homebase.
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I listened to a lady from the organisation pursuing this on the Radio , she said that 50% of disabled badges are being abused at any given time (able bodied family using them etc) to park in disabled spaces.
It was very disappointing that she had no plans to look at penalising those people , smacks of double standards to me.0 -
I listened to a lady from the organisation pursuing this on the Radio , she said that 50% of disabled badges are being abused at any given time (able bodied family using them etc) to park in disabled spaces.
It was very disappointing that she had no plans to look at penalising those people , smacks of double standards to me.
How on earth do they actually come up with such a figure though?"Life is what you make of it, whoever got anywhere without some passion and ambition?0 -
Plucked out of thin air like most figures provided by organisations with an agenda?jetta_wales wrote: »How on earth do they actually come up with such a figure though?
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