Parking question...

I have a theory about parking enforcement and big box stores in small towns.
The town uses taxes to enforce parking Nazi-style downtown to run everyone to the big box stores who have lobbied, under the table, for this treatment.
It makes no financial sense, if they took that one parking attendant and patrolled the whole town for more serious parking offenses they would make in one day what they make in a month for the petty parking tickets running business away from the few mom & pop stores left down-town that are actually supposed to have people in them for long periods of time.
Especially in illegal disabled parking tickets alone.

[BigV]

Don't shop at Wal-Mart.

Or, make them an offer to be their parking regulation enforcer for hire. You could scoot around the parking lot putting violation notices under the wipers of the cars and the child restraint straps of the carts. You could work on a percentage basis. The sky's the limit! You could even get one of those twirling blue lights (I know they're so K-Mart, but WallyWorld can hook you up I'm sure) bolted to your rig. And a bullhorn, for a PA system. And if they get feisty, cap'em. I'm sure FL's Castle Doctrine extends to parking lots. Nothin but upside as far as the eye can see. Go get'em tiger.

Troll.

[BigV]

Whiner.

Nope... I love it when you show what you are.

[BigV]

That you *like* whining doesn't make it any less whining. Just more annoying.

Reading emotion into text without description of that nature is projecting, incorrect and shows a lack of emotional intellegence/maturity... I am neither whining nor complaining.
Just making a statement of fact.
Troll.

[BigV]

:click:

Waaaahhhhhooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Chicken-shit couldn't just stay on topic like an adult.

[HungLikeJesus]

2nd Investigation of Federal Judge Nottingham Launched after Disabled Parking Violation:

KUSA - The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has launched a second investigation of Judge Edward Nottingham, the Chief Judge of federal courts in Colorado.

Nottingham is the judge in the Joe Nacchio trial. Nacchio was the former CEO of Qwest.

The Court of Appeals began an investigation of Judge Nottingham in September following allegations of improper conduct involving strip clubs.

The most recent investigation began less than a month after the first investigation. It involves a grievance filed by a Denver attorney over Judge Nottingham's behavior after parking illegally in a disabled parking space.

The attorney who filed the grievance, Jeanne Elliott, was paralyzed in 1986 after being shot four times during a court hearing in the Arapahoe County Courthouse.

Elliott was representing the ex-wife of an Aurora police officer who shot Elliott because he was angry about an increase in his court-ordered child-support payments.

On September 15, Elliott says she was in her wheelchair on her way into a Walgreen's at Race and Colfax in Denver. She says she had to park on the street in her wheelchair-accessible van because all of the disabled parking spaces were taken. Elliott says she noticed one of the handicapped spaces was occupied by someone without the proper authentication for disabled parking. So, she pulled her wheelchair behind the SUV and waited for the owner to show up.

According to Elliott, the man who owned the SUV saw her behind his van, walked past her and got in his SUV without speaking with her.

"And then he put the car in reverse, because I could tell from back-up lights going on and I thought, 'Oh boy, he's going to back over me,'" said Elliott.

She says the driver actually backed up towards her while she was sitting in her wheelchair behind his SUV. According to Elliott, the driver then got out of car and said, "Get of my way.'" Elliot, who filed a grievance with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, then says she told the driver he was parked illegally in a handicapped accessible parking space. That's when Elliot says the driver identified himself as Judge Edward Nottingham and showed her his identification. Elliot says Nottingham threatened to call the U.S. Marshal's office if she didn't move.

"I was offended about the U.S. Marshal threat," said Elliott. "Here he is parking illegally. He's a federal judge who is held to a higher ethical standard and he's threatening me."

Elliott didn't move. Judge Nottingham called 911. ~snip~

There is more in the linked-article.

Got in touch with the manager today, he would not talk for my YT video.
He denied knowing it occurred at all, then denied it happened every day (my wife drives past the store daily), then blamed it on construction.... they have been doing it since the store has been built and I have seen it at more than one store
Four days since the police operator told me someone would call me back.

If you want to watch the YouTube video on this topic, PM me.

Thought this was interesting.

[chrisinhouston]

The Weekly World News had a front page article about a man who cut off his own arm with a chainsaw to get a handicaped permit. He was quoted as saying "It was the best decision I ever made in my life!"

Seriously, it is really sad how people abuse the system. I have a friend who is a paraplegic and very active. He took me to lunch one day and had a hard time parking in the handicap space at the shopping center because there was a big motorcycle in the unloading zone. As we got out of his truck he carefully assembled his wheelchair and shifted his body from the truck to the chair and we went up to the sidewalk where a couple was seated at a table having lunch. They had pretty much ignored us (they had helmets on a chair so we new that the bike was theirs). My friend casually said to them, "if you happen to see the assholes that parked their bike there could you tell them it's a handicaped zone and that they should move it."

The couple stood up and began shouting at us and even said that if we had only asked they would have been happy to move their bike.

Real jerks.