Not disabled at all parking in supermarkets.

ThumbRemote

pogofish wrote: »

Good - Because the Blue Badge scheme does not apply in private car parks and thus, the vast majority of disabled spaces in supermarket car parks are quite meaningless beyond courtesy!

Its the Equality Act that applies here and all persons disabled under the act, visible disability or not are entitled, not just those with blue badges.

It might not be illegal for able bodies people to park in disabled spaces in supermarket car parks, but it's certainly bad mannered and anti social.

Stupidity and laziness are not disabilities.

savemoney

The BB spaces on private land although not enforceable are there to benefit customers who have a BB with them.

The driver could quiet easily be able boded the space is not exclusively for BB drivers

For example I am able bodied but I do on occasions use a BB space when I have my daughter with us who is disabled

Its nothing to do with being bad manned or anti social my daughter likes to come shopping in a way its to get her out and she doesn't go out much and she needs some one to watch over her as she frequently falls. There are some parents with disabled children some very young and need space to get out with any equipment they have too.

ThumbRemote wrote: »

It might not be illegal for able bodies people to park in disabled spaces in supermarket car parks, but it's certainly bad mannered and anti social.

Stupidity and laziness are not disabilities.

im-lost

Cliecost wrote: »

This is a hot topic, if you say 'you should only have it if the disability is visibly impairing' then you run the chance of excluding the people who may need them the most like the incontinent or narcolepsy sufferers ect..

But then if you say it's open to all types of problems, you will get !!!!!!!s taking the !!!!.

Tricky.

If you have narcolepsy should you even be driving? hmmmmm

CKhalvashi

bluebird wrote: »

Its a hard one to call as the driver could have a disability that isnt visible.

I had this earlier in Tesco’s, and actually had one of their security staff come out, look at my car (S-Max with magnetic stickers on the side/back) and me, making sure that I got called into CS on my way in.

I calmly explained that I was involved in a traffic accident several years ago, causing severe muscular pain, explaining that I have the sports seats and Auto gearbox so that I can drive into work, before getting my lunch and disappearing.

IMO, the general impression is that disabled people don’t work, and especially in the industry that I work in (I’m a Senior Partner within a large Media firm) it seems to be expected that I’m standing up all day. I’ve had my day-to-day role changed so much over the last 5 years it’s beyond belief, and you won’t find me out of my office much of the time now, just proving they couldn’t be more wrong!

CK

timbo58

I wouldn't park in one enforceable or not as it shows extremely bad manners at the vey least.

However I did wonder aloud in the office yesterday why seemingly 15% of our local Sainsburys car parking spaces are blue badged?

15% seems very high or maybe I'd not really assessed the percentage properly: are they guidelines for how many have to be set aside?

ThumbRemote

savemoney wrote: »

For example I am able bodied but I do on occasions use a BB space when I have my daughter with us who is disabled

My apologies, I worded my earlier post such that it sounded like I was criticising anyone where the driver wasn't disabled; I did of course mean anyone in the car.

cherie1122

I had surgery a while back and needed a wheelchair for a while, then crutches and now I am able to walk again (but slowly and it's quite painful). I have a Blue Badge and use it at the supermarket because I can get really near to the doors and then go up in the lift.

I suppose I am able bodied now but am still not able to walk very far. Nobody has complained about my parking yet - I'm not sure what I would say if they did.

fluffnutter

I wouldn't park in a disabled spot. Seems rude to me. However, I make a point of trying to park in P&C parking simply because it makes a certain type of parent apoplectic with rage

Cliecost

im-lost wrote: »

If you have narcolepsy should you even be driving? hmmmmm

You'd be surprised by the amount of people the DVLA allow to drive.

In my job I constantly speak to people who can't read the large print documents we send them about their car insurance or a family member calls for the same thing because their relative also can't hear very well.

1 tonne of car + deafness + blindness = police involvement

(sorry to digress from the original point)

sillygoose

I spend a lot of my life in and out of public car parks and I see a lot of very expensive cars with blue badges in disabled spaces with a pretty healthy looking lone driver. I believe the blue badges have a photo of the person its issued for on it? but these driver always place it covered up.

Of course a disabled person can have any car they desire as their right, but a low slung Aston Martin doesn't seem very easy to get in and out of or a huge BMW X6 very easy to park if you can't turn around well. I am sure these people have an aunt tucked away in some care home and they have applied for the badge to supposedly take out 'Aunty' (if she is lucky). Basically they have big expensive cars that won't fit normal spaces and think they are too important to obey the rules in life us poor mugs have to.

It offends me because they block spaces real disabled people need, and artificially inflate the number of disabled spaces needed so less are allocated for normal use by law abiding people with morals.