Sweet San Jacinto Disabled Parking Law

[Gaelic Ninja]

I like that second one. Gets the point across really well

[Drax]

Originally Posted by BigV

Why? The original link worked fine for me.

What browser do you use?

[yesman065]

I have Internet Explorer and firefox - worked fine in both for me

[Drax]

I also use FF. Strange that it didn't work for me 'til I added the www.

[DanaC]

What's with the "Mom with kids" spots? (Wegman's, Downingtown)
I park in them but I don't get it...

My guess is supermarkets have done a little customer research and found a large number of their customers find it difficult to get a toddler and a baby across a large crowded carpark, with baby in carry-cot type thing that'll sit on the trolley (can't exactly push a pram round tescos, and wouldn't want to leave it in the foyer). We have them in most supermarkets. Whether it's decided by the company, or there is some kind of local government pressure brought to bear, I don't know.

[Clodfobble]

Yeah, they don't really mean "mom with kids," they mean "mom with more than one child under the age of 5." But I imagine they don't want to bother with enforcing specifics.

Those spots would be useless at my grocery store anyway, at least half of the shoppers are mothers with varying numbers of babies and toddlers. Yeah, I live in the suburbs. Instead, my grocery store has covered walkways running down the middle of each parking aisle all the way out from the building, so you don't ever take your kids in the street in the first place. And baskets are stored in the walkways too, so you can load them up right outside the car and push them into the store.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Big problem here is that there are various levels of disabled and handicapped.

For example, many people are eligible to get a sticker, perm or temp for recent surgery, poor mobility, etc. So when they get out of their car and walk you might not think that they are "disabled" when in fact it is totally legit.

I can see if there is no sticker or tag to indicate legal parking, those people ought to be shot. We recently had a great case in our local Kroger. Cop pulls up and sees a car parked in the handicapped space without a appropriate tag. He blocked the guy in till he came out and slaped him with a $250 fine. Justice served.

Some businesses used to do that, voluntarily, IE Tom Thumb's "Stork Club" parking, but I haven't seen it anywhere lately except Babies -R- Us.

Why don't we have these? You can't tell me that carrying an entire human being inside your body doesn't constitue a valid mobility issue.

If you can walk the store/mall, you can walk to your car in the parking lot.

If the shit-heads looked where they were going instead of trying to run over people in wheelchairs in parking lots & inclement weather I would have no issue with disabled spaces being away from the front of the stores.
But, there are very few things I can think of that are more dangerous than riding a wheelchair in a busy parking lot, most drivers are morons.
That and I need extra space for my lift. I'm getting to the place where I'm going to start opening it onto cars that park in the lift space next to the van and just say "didn't see the fuck-head".

[TheMercenary]

Rk, I fully support your position. They should have Van only places instead of just Van accessible places. And I disagree that if you can walk you are not handicapped. What if you walk with a cane, or a walker, or just wear a brace because it hurts your leg to walk long distances? Who is to make that judgement?

I don't know.
When I walked with a cane and walked the store, I just used the regular spaces.
If I was only going to walk in and use their carts, I used the disabled space.
It is a no-brainer.
I also agree, if you don't have a wheelchair don't park in the loading spaces; at least not in the last damn one, especially if you are going to walk your happy ass in the store, fucker.

[mitheral]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

If you can walk the store/mall, you can walk to your car in the parking lot.

My dad can walk about 750 metres. Then he has to rest for an hour or more. The 50-100 (X2, got to get back to the car too) metres he can save with his placard are vital.

[DanaC]

My Dad has a similar problem. You wouldn't know it if you saw him at the start of that journey, but you'd know it if you saw him halfway towards the store. He has COPD and when he returns home from his shopping trip, even with the disabled sticker allowing him to par right next to it, he needs to spend about 45 minutes on his oxygen tank. Yes, he can walk around the store and do his shopping. But he's leaning on the trolley as he pushes ....and he intersperses his shopping with rests.

[richlevy]

After reading this thread I just had to take a picture of these guys I encountered when I came out of a local supermarket.

I have named them Moe, Larry, and Curly. Maybe I should have named one of them 'Turtle', although even that character would have had more class than this.

BTW, not only did they park in the lift space, but they couldn't even park it in the lines, even though it's larger than a parking space!

But what do they care, their car looks totally kewl!

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder if the dent in the tailgate was from an irate cane whack?

[Clodfobble]

Why did you black out the license plate? You should turn the photos over to the cops, maybe they'll have a slow afternoon and can bother to do something about it.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Why did you black out the license plate? You should turn the photos over to the cops, maybe they'll have a slow afternoon and can bother to do something about it.

I didn't want to be responsible for anyone attempting vigilante justice. I doubt the local cops would bother following up on this.