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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 459865" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>I have also had times when I was very mad at someone who appeared to be taking a disabled space and didn't have a placard. As the parent of a severely disabled child who used a power wheelchair I could get pretty darned steamed about it.</p><p></p><p>But I would prefer to call the parking patrol or police to give them a ticket. Or leave them a note in hopes of guilting them into parking somewhere else. It is dangerous to provoke people these days (if it ever was safe I don't know) and I would not want to find myself at the end of a gun or baseball bat or even being run down by someone who was angry because I was in the middle of some stunt like that.</p><p></p><p>I would never choose to disabled their vehicle with packing tape or, heaven forbid, super glue if only because it would guarantee that the parking space was not available any time soon.</p><p></p><p>In my experience, just because a person appears able-bodied doesn't actually mean that they are in fact always able-bodied/predictably able-bodied.</p><p> </p><p>And sometimes the apparently able-bodied person getting in/out of the car is not just doing it for their convenience. There are a thousand possible explanations like they are actually dropping off or picking up a disabled person or just dropped that person off at the front entrance and are parking the car where they can get access when they come back. Around here it is popular to make this assumption when an apparently able-bodied person gets out of the driver's seat, regardless of whether they are displaying a placard or license plate.</p><p></p><p>And finally, there have been a few times when we used a car that didn't have disabled plates and forgot to put up the placard. Luckily we never got a ticket - or had our locks superglued by someone who thought they were justified by our lack of a placard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 459865, member: 11920"] I have also had times when I was very mad at someone who appeared to be taking a disabled space and didn't have a placard. As the parent of a severely disabled child who used a power wheelchair I could get pretty darned steamed about it. But I would prefer to call the parking patrol or police to give them a ticket. Or leave them a note in hopes of guilting them into parking somewhere else. It is dangerous to provoke people these days (if it ever was safe I don't know) and I would not want to find myself at the end of a gun or baseball bat or even being run down by someone who was angry because I was in the middle of some stunt like that. I would never choose to disabled their vehicle with packing tape or, heaven forbid, super glue if only because it would guarantee that the parking space was not available any time soon. In my experience, just because a person appears able-bodied doesn't actually mean that they are in fact always able-bodied/predictably able-bodied. And sometimes the apparently able-bodied person getting in/out of the car is not just doing it for their convenience. There are a thousand possible explanations like they are actually dropping off or picking up a disabled person or just dropped that person off at the front entrance and are parking the car where they can get access when they come back. Around here it is popular to make this assumption when an apparently able-bodied person gets out of the driver's seat, regardless of whether they are displaying a placard or license plate. And finally, there have been a few times when we used a car that didn't have disabled plates and forgot to put up the placard. Luckily we never got a ticket - or had our locks superglued by someone who thought they were justified by our lack of a placard. [/QUOTE]
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