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  • esmerobbo
    esmerobbo Posts: 4,979 Forumite
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    trisontana wrote: »
    It would useful to forward that ECHR reply to Helen Dolphin at Disabled Motoring UK to see if it will change her attitude regarding blue badges and private car-parks.
    robredz wrote: »
    Will do, don't know if she will reply

    Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer!:cool:
  • I doubt if Flipper will kiss goodbye to all that lovely dosh got from supporting scammers. I think it was Bernard Shaw who said 'when a man talks about his principles, he invariably means his pocket'. I am sure that applies to Ms Dolphin as well.
    Still waiting for Parking Eye to send the court summons! Make my day!
  • kazzah60
    kazzah60 Posts: 752 Forumite
    I am also puzzled by the seeming need to have to police disabled spaces when there is no policing of disabled toilets. I couldn't possibly try to enumerate the occasions when having got to the disabled loo I've found it being used as a baby-changing room; or (often) for mum to "toilet" a number of smaller children or seemingly perfectly able-bodied individuals wanting "a bit of elbow-room".

    Whilst I am in agreement with your comments, I would like to point out that I am seemingly able-bodied, however I suffer with fecal incontinence on occasion, due to nerve damage
    sometimes, I use the disabled loo because if there is a queue in the ladies ( which there often is) I am simply unable to wait, otherwise a disaster could ensue!

    I do consider that this is a disability - albeit a hidden one - so if you see me coming out of the disabled loo - please don't assume I am absuing it :o
  • robredz
    robredz Posts: 1,602 Forumite
    kazzah60 wrote: »
    I am also puzzled by the seeming need to have to police disabled spaces when there is no policing of disabled toilets. I couldn't possibly try to enumerate the occasions when having got to the disabled loo I've found it being used as a baby-changing room; or (often) for mum to "toilet" a number of smaller children or seemingly perfectly able-bodied individuals wanting "a bit of elbow-room".

    Whilst I am in agreement with your comments, I would like to point out that I am seemingly able-bodied, however I suffer with fecal incontinence on occasion, due to nerve damage
    sometimes, I use the disabled loo because if there is a queue in the ladies ( which there often is) I am simply unable to wait, otherwise a disaster could ensue!

    I do consider that this is a disability - albeit a hidden one - so if you see me coming out of the disabled loo - please don't assume I am absuing it :o

    I certainly wouldn't, anyway it would be a reasonable adjustment to accommodate your need, disability comes in all shapes and sizes, and is often not immediately apparent to a casual passer by.Common Humanity and courtesy springs to miind. In my case my disability is visible, and it is interpretation of the letter of a (non existent) law, that was the main issue, similar to the problems encountered by other posters with supermarkets and PPCs
  • Coupon-mad
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    kazzah60 wrote: »
    Whilst I am in agreement with your comments, I would like to point out that I am seemingly able-bodied, however I suffer with fecal incontinence on occasion, due to nerve damage
    sometimes, I use the disabled loo because if there is a queue in the ladies ( which there often is) I am simply unable to wait, otherwise a disaster could ensue!

    I do consider that this is a disability - albeit a hidden one - so if you see me coming out of the disabled loo - please don't assume I am absuing it :o




    Don't worry, we wouldn't judge you on this board.

    Disability law 'reasonable adjustments' are about providing a service to meet a need - not about whether someone has a blue badge, or a wheelchair or is one of those over-seventy-year olds who think the world owes them a living and a disabled bay. No offence intended at all to other oldies but I expect most on here know the type I mean, they are usually old men who attempt to drive an unnecessarily stupid large car like a Kompressor and support the Baywatch scheme.
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