Around here those handicapped parking placards are on every other car and they must give them to anyone who asks. A girl I worked with still used one six years after a very minor injury, long since healed, compliments of her sister, the doctor! I've seen a great deal of misuse of them. A friend had one to use when she was taking her severely disabled mother to medical appointments, PT, etc., and she was one of the few who were honest enough to only use it when her mother was with her. It's far more common to see the whole family use it as a free pass to get the good parking spaces!