Theft of blue badges - the answer...
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50Twuncle, if you really do have walking difficulties, take it up with your GP, who could help you to qualify for a Blue Badge. That would be a better plan than posting here with your anger at people who do not deserve it.
Did you read the thread? or just sim it?I use a blue badge - so am I being selfish to myself ?0 -
Once again there are people taking out their opinions about who should be registered disabled, based on appearances. No one posting here has X-Ray vision and no one here is so experienced in medicine that they can tell who is, or is not, disabled. There are many forms of disability and many reasons for disability. I do not believe that elderly people are seen "running from their cars", for instance. What a lurid turn of phrase. I have one very visible disability and 2 more that are not visible. Any of the latter 2 would qualify me for a BB.
As for those who regularly park in Blue Badge spaces, I had acure for one of those. A blonde fiftyish woman drove across me to park in the last BB space, in a huge Porsche Cayenne 4X4. I drove across the front of her car, parked, got out, fetched my crutch and locked the car. "Where are you going?" she asked "I won't get out!" "I know," I answered " I am going to the Town Hall to report someone parked illegally in a BB space."
I was answered with a torrent of abusive language, including the information that, if I could move my ******* car, she would move her ******* car, and further, I was several kinds of (Anglo-Saxon expletive)
I informed her that she could really do with improvements to her attitude and limited vocabulary, and moved my car. She left.
50Twuncle, if you really do have walking difficulties, take it up with your GP, who could help you to qualify for a Blue Badge. That would be a better plan than posting here with your anger at people who do not deserve it.
I have a blue badge already which I find extremely useful - thank you.0 -
Exactly - the only "constant" is the vehicle itself !
But it's not constant at all. The only constant is the disabled driver/passenger.
A clamp down on badges being used without the owner being in the vehicle would solve it. Currently that means having a warden wait for the passengers to return to the vehicle, or referring to CCTV footage (i.e. badge is registered to an 80-year old woman with mobility issues but the young male driver is the only one seen getting out).
Ramping up the penalties for letting someone else use the badge (if not reported stolen) would crack down on it as well. Ideally confiscation of the badge if theft proceedings aren't filed against the abuser.0 -
As a deterrent because thieves know that there is no way that they can be caught at the moment
The ID could be tied in to the number plate
There are approx 2.5 Million blue badges currently issued in UK - With around 3000 being stolen every year (numbers increasing due to "value" - a mobile phone could be converted to read chips - so a cheap solution is readily available
So for every 1,000 badges, one is stolen. That hardly even qualifies as a problem, let alone one worth spending money on.0 -
But it's not constant at all. The only constant is the disabled driver/passenger.
A clamp down on badges being used without the owner being in the vehicle would solve it. Currently that means having a warden wait for the passengers to return to the vehicle, or referring to CCTV footage (i.e. badge is registered to an 80-year old woman with mobility issues but the young male driver is the only one seen getting out).
Ramping up the penalties for letting someone else use the badge (if not reported stolen) would crack down on it as well. Ideally confiscation of the badge if theft proceedings aren't filed against the abuser.
Unfortunately that would never work in reality as you'd need proof that the badge holder didn't get out or get in the car. My wife has a blue card and it always grates when you see cars parked up without one. Mums with kids seem to believe they can use them with impunity as well which winds me up.0 -
Colin_Maybe wrote: »Unfortunately that would never work in reality as you'd need proof that the badge holder didn't get out or get in the car. My wife has a blue card and it always grates when you see cars parked up without one. Mums with kids seem to believe they can use them with impunity as well which winds me up.
What, the space or the badge?0 -
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Colin_Maybe wrote: »Unfortunately that would never work in reality as you'd need proof that the badge holder didn't get out or get in the car.
It's certainly an uphill issue, but you can certainly get evidence of people not getting in or out, via some targeted effort.
i.e. hire some council wardens to spend a few days observing bays and spot checking people that aren't obviously the person on the badge.
Currently there's almost no risk to getting caught, but a few days of targetted effort in a few car parks would put a lot of badge abusers off, whilst costing relatively little.0 -
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