Abused while standing at my car in a disabled bay

dori2o

jackieb wrote: »

It's usually just council car parks that are free. You still have to pay for privately run ones, like the multi-storeys in shopping centres.

Most of the council run car parks, with the exception of 1 (Rochdale) near us charge for all spaces, blue badge or not. Oldham, Ashton, Bury, Huddersfield, Manchester all charge in their car parks. It's only on-road parking in bays which is free.

Best comeback I've used when some idiot decides to have a go-

IDIOT - You don't look disabled
ME- You don't look stupid, but looks can be deceiving.

jackieb

It must depend on the local authority.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

ian_duncan_smith wrote: »

These people are bigots. In this case they pick on your disability. It's so much worse if you're Asian because when they get an answer that doesn't match their agenda they resort to racial abuse to have the final word.

Bollocks. If someone isn't Asian, they'll get it about their hair colour, their figure, their child's appearance, the clothes they wear, the other ethnic characteristics they display, their sexual proclivities or a million other things. It's not worse if someone's Asian. It's just a slightly different flavour of personal insult.

dori2o

Unfortunately I find this an increasing problem amongst today's youth.

When I was at school (only 15/20 years ago) neither me nor any of my friends would dream of acting as they kids today do. There's no respect at all from the majority of them.

A few months ago I was returning to my car from a medical appointment in town. I had to walk through the bus station to get to the car and as I was doing so this kid (14/15) decided it would be a good idea to steal my walking stick and have a laugh and joke with his mates throwing it about.

Luckily someone was good enough to take the stick from them and give it back to me, but I then had to walk past therse kids with them shouting things such as 'freak' and 'gimp'.

Maybe I come from better stock than they do, but when I was a kid I and most of my mates, would go out of our way to help someone who needed it, not make fun of them

auditbabe

danlojo wrote: »

Most of the places I've been to have always had free parking for BB holders

Come and visit Kings Lynn and Hunstanton and the general area it's not free here.

jackieb

dori2o wrote: »

Unfortunately I find this an increasing problem amongst today's youth.

When I was at school (only 15/20 years ago) neither me nor any of my friends would dream of acting as they kids today do. There's no respect at all from the majority of them.

A few months ago I was returning to my car from a medical appointment in town. I had to walk through the bus station to get to the car and as I was doing so this kid (14/15) decided it would be a good idea to steal my walking stick and have a laugh and joke with his mates throwing it about.

Luckily someone was good enough to take the stick from them and give it back to me, but I then had to walk past therse kids with them shouting things such as 'freak' and 'gimp'.

Maybe I come from better stock than they do, but when I was a kid I and most of my mates, would go out of our way to help someone who needed it, not make fun of them

You most likely do come from better stock, as there's always been good and bad in all age groups. The man who aimed his remarks towards me must have been about 50 years old.

datostar

margaretclare wrote: »

Having a blue badge does not entitle you to 'no council tax or rent to pay'! In addition, you often have to pay for parking in spite of having the blue badge. All the badge entitled you to is a space.

Of course it doesn't. Did someone say it did? But DISABILITY and no other income than benefits certainly does in the form of Housing Benefit, Pension Credit etc.

marleyboy

auditbabe wrote: »

Come and visit Kings Lynn and Hunstanton and the general area it's not free here.

The City of Manchester has plenty of FREE disabled spaces, adds to many frustrations as they are mingled between the rows of parking meters for the non disabled drivers.

Brassedoff

I am a lot younger than the OP and as some of you know, have a nice big Black Range Rover that is the latest model. I love using the BB spaces, it saves on getting the doors dinked.

I find I get dirty looks from a lot of OAP's who look at the car and go into auto tut, it's up to them. They still carry on tutting as the wheelchair comes out. Just because I managed to get a decent car and have it updated as often as I can afford, I am a big bloke and love the car.
But you cannot have a decent car and a BB.

As for parking my town council has just started charging as it contributes £50KPEr year. They changed the rules a year ago to help plug the budget gap.

I have found that there are a lot less spaced filled. But that might just be me.

dori2o

marleyboy wrote: »

The City of Manchester has plenty of FREE disabled spaces, adds to many frustrations as they are mingled between the rows of parking meters for the non disabled drivers.

But they are on-road parking bays which are free anyway whether they are designated for the disabled or not. This is the case for the vast majority of places in the UK.

Most of Manchesters cars parks are run by Euro Car Parks with the rest being privately run so there's no free parking within most 'car parks'.

I certainly haven't come across any.