Blue Badge has been confiscated !!! - ADVISE Please

Morglin

I downloaded some of these, and have been known to tuck a copy under the windscreen wipers of bay abusers.........

http://www.apparelyzed.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2384

Lin :whistle:

LondonDiva

Someone at work drives her mum's motability car to work and weekends uses the blue badge to avoid parking charges:mad:

Apparently her mum doesn't like driving and only gets in when going on a holiday with the family. THey are looking to see how to get an upgrade :rolleyes:

nearlyrich

My mum has a badge, she can't walk very far at all , I took her to the hospital last week and the disabled car park was the furthest from the door so I had to drop her and my sister off in the ambulance bay and then go and park somewhere where I wasn't causing an obstruction. I felt sorry for anyone who had to walk the long distance from the carpark on crutches or propel themselves in a wheelchair, you would think a hospital could plan it better.

On the subject of using the badge when mum wasn't with me I wouldn't dream of it, I have seen real disabled people with wheelchairs struggling in small spaces because it was raining and someone didn't want to get wet.

shameless-about-money

Wouldn't it just have been simpler to go to the police station - where traffic wardens are stationed - and ask?

It would save waiting with trepidation.

It also doesn't help the real victim in all of this - yus' brother - who now has not got a Blue Badge to use at all.

I have downloaded the flyer posted by Morglin.

Fortunately I am very outspoken and I have no qualms in questioning the 23 -year -old -with -a -child about parking in a disabled bay. When I am finished, they leave rather shame-faced - which is my intention. If they have no conscience to start with, I jolly well make sure that they find one.

Morglin

LondonDiva wrote: »

Someone at work drives her mum's motability car to work and weekends uses the blue badge to avoid parking charges:mad:

Apparently her mum doesn't like driving and only gets in when going on a holiday with the family. THey are looking to see how to get an upgrade :rolleyes:

If anyone is caught driving it, except with the express reason of providing some service to the mum, then they could lose the car, and any future entitlement to a Motability vehicle.

A further point is that the insurance provided on a Motability vehicle would not cover work travel for a relative.

Lin :rolleyes:

lilac_lady

Blue badges are meant for the benefit of the holder, not their relatives. it's simple enough to work out whether you can use a blue badge or not. The OP's dad shouldn't have used it and it probably wasn't the first time that he did it. It's ridiculous to take a blue badge and expect free convenient parking if the the disabled person is not in the car.

yus786

Just a final note from me.

I don't know whether you've had a chance to read the whole thread but we have established my dad was at fault - for which I have unreservedly apologised. I have also stated this will not happen again.

So for those of you still bashing us - please let it go. I again apologise on my dad’s behalf and again promise this will NOT happen again.

Ps - My brother got his badge back today...

calleyw

LondonDiva wrote: »

Someone at work drives her mum's motability car to work and weekends uses the blue badge to avoid parking charges:mad:

Apparently her mum doesn't like driving and only gets in when going on a holiday with the family. THey are looking to see how to get an upgrade :rolleyes:

prehaps they need reporting to the mobility people.

As this is total and utter abuse of a system to help people who need it.

It is abusers of systems like this that means it is nigh on impossible for the people that really need help when they need it.

I mean my husband had a stroke last year and the forms he had to fill in to get any benefit is disgusting. You can't fake a stroke and he was in hospital from end of september until second week of Jan.

But still need to fill huge forms in to get what he was entitled to.

Yours


Calley

calleyw

sleepymy wrote: »

If you read the first post Calley, you'll see that the OP's Dad parked in a pay and display space not a disabled space.

Does not matter he still should not have been using someone else blue badge which the OP's father now seems to be have been aware but not before

And I am shocked to find that when it was orange badges it was ok to use them for running errands.

The question is why as the person doing the errand will be abled bodied.

It never dawned on me to use my husbands blue badge to get free parking when my husband is not there.

All the rules and regs are in the leaflet sent to you at time of application.

I was under the impression that in law ignorance is not a defence.

Yours


Calley

zztopgirl

The respite centre that my dh (occasionally) goes to, use bb on all their vehicles that transport the disabled to and from the centre. Saw 2 workers in the middle of town once, they were going shopping and had parked in a bb bay with the bb on show, which i thought was a bit off. Should it count if they work to care for the disabled?

My dad has a very rude sign suitable for a bb bay, but dont think i can put it here. Photobucket is down anyway