verbal abuse while parking in BB zone

wiccanlou

Its £2.00 admin fee in thurrock.

Soapn

I often wonder how people who have the blue badges have to park so close to the entrance in the disabled bays, but seem to find it really quite easy to wander around a big shop for an hour or so. Complexing is that.

only_mee

I use there electric buggys in the shop.

Soapn

only_mee wrote: »

I use there electric buggys in the shop.

Ok, but not all people do.

Which is why people get peeved when they percieve people they see parked at the door to be abusing the system.

As an aside, it is VERY VERY rare for there to be an old banger with a blue badge, they all seem to be fairly new cars that look mighty fine.

shedboy94

Soapn wrote: »

Ok, but not all people do.

Which is why people get peeved when they percieve people they see parked at the door to be abusing the system.

As an aside, it is VERY VERY rare for there to be an old banger with a blue badge, they all seem to be fairly new cars that look mighty fine.

It's because they are all new cars, replaced every couple of years, paid for by the state.

shedboy94

serious_saver wrote: »

Just because you have a nice car doesn't mean you can't be disabled. I know a couple of disabled people who drive very nice cars. One drives a rather flashy looking executive Mercedes. They are the only car company who will do the very specific modifications that she needs and that's the car they offered her. However I agree about the parent-child spaces. If you're in a two seater convertible how can you possibly be in a position to use a parent child space, since a child car seat must be fixed onto a rear seat?

Errrm.....since when were you not allowed to transport children in 2 seater cars, vans, or just even just let them sit in the front seat? My child sits on a booster seat and when he was younger I put the car seat in the front if I needed to.

Errata

Soapn wrote: »

I often wonder how people who have the blue badges have to park so close to the entrance in the disabled bays, but seem to find it really quite easy to wander around a big shop for an hour or so. Complexing is that.

I can't say I've ever followed a BB holder round a shop to check how long they're in there. Clearly some people, like yourself, do but the point of doling it quite escapes me.

Soapn

Errata wrote: »

I can't say I've ever followed a BB holder round a shop to check how long they're in there. Clearly some people, like yourself, do but the point of doling it quite escapes me.

Well you see, the thing is I WORK for my living in a shop. I see it day in day out. 95% of them are taking the mick.

dipsy

Horace wrote: »

I have a disabled friend who rides a motorbike and he once parked his bike in a disabled bay and he left his BB displayed on his windscreen (it was chained to his bike). The guy who shouted at him said that he couldnt be disabled because he rode a motorbike and that he was obviously stealing a space..needless to say my chum rolled up the leg of his jeans and removed his lower leg..the guy kept his gob shut..friend replaced his leg and got on his bike. Yes it is possible for an amputee to ride a motorbike with adaptions - just like a person in a wheelchair can.

I can 2nd this, my partner is disabled with amputation below his right knee and rides a motorbike, to be fair when i met him I didn't even know he had a limb missing and was some time before I found out..... he never makes an issue out of it...

JimmyTheWig

shedboy94 wrote: »

Errrm.....since when were you not allowed to transport children in 2 seater cars, vans, or just even just let them sit in the front seat? My child sits on a booster seat and when he was younger I put the car seat in the front if I needed to.

You're not allowed to put a baby in a rear facing car seat in the passenger seat if it is fitted with an airbag. Nearly all are, these days, I believe.
You're not supposed to even do it if the air-bag is switched off as there is no way of testing that the switching off is working.

I've also been told (by someone who should know, but I can't remember who) that a toddler shouldn't sit in the front seat, but I didn't follow their reasons so I wouldn't stick to that religiously.

But I'd have no problem with a 7 year old on a booster seat in the passenger seat of a sports car.
However, it is only the baby seats (i.e. those that shouldn't be in the front) that you would reasonably take out of the car to go shopping, so a 2-seater with no car seat is almost definitely in the wrong.