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If you do not have mobility issues, DO NOT park in the parking spaces reserved for those who need them! I don’t care if you’re only running in for a minute. So am I, but I had to park halfway down the line. What planet did you come from where it is ok to do that? —Grr
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
33 Comments
I have a speech impediment…
I do believe parking should be reserved for those with mobility issues BUT what I find absurd are those who go to the mall and park their car in the space yet manage to log many miles going from store to store……..miracles do happen!
On a flight in the US I was amazed at the number of people requiring wheel chair assistance and these people boarded the aircraft first with assistance from airline staff. While flying we must have been closer to God because these same individuals were the first ones out of their seats to disembark the aircraft without any assistance ~ and almost knocked me down in their ambush to get out of the plane!
Handicapped Parking SHOULD BE BANNED !
I cannot count high enough for all the people who park in handicapped parking who are not handicapped, that I have seen.
I have on more than one occassion asked the driver why are you parking there…one asshole said I’m driving my dads car & I take advantage of his plate !
FUCK YOU BOZO.
I actually have a legitimate reason to have a handicap plate. Because of a pinned leg. But I can still walk. I limp, so fucking what ! I should have special parking privledges because I fucking limp ?
THe whole system is Bullshit & really serious handicapped people are usually ferried around by those who are not handicapped ! ! ! !
I believe we should be treated equally in our society & no one should be put above someone else. A healthy person pushing a handicapped person to & from a building doesn’t need a special parking designation ,IMO.
PS. I do not have a handicap sticker or plate .
Holy FUCK I had a dream about this last night. I parked the car in a spot and then came out and it had the disabled parking permit my dad’s friend left in the car when he was traveling with my father (he has a legit disability and has a plate on his car and a permit to take when he’s traveling in other vehicles and accidently left it in our car) and was parked in a handicapped spot and my mother was yelling at me about it. LOL.
People who do this are the lowest of the low. They have senior parking spaces close to Wallyworld in several of their locations and the last time I was there I saw this morbidly obese couple who were no older than me parking there. When they got out of their car I was so angry about it I yelled “you two are the youngest looking 65 year olds I’ve ever seen!” Shit like that pisses me off.
My dad is a senior – 65 and has severe arthiritis in his ankle and actually qualifies for a disabled parking permit (but won’t get it because he feels it unnecessary), yet still won’t park there because he said there are seniors out there a lot more hard up than he is. Yet this fat ass couple felt the need to take the spot. Maybe if they parked a few spaces down they could waddle some of that fat off.
Normally I wouldn’t say anything about fat people, but when they do lazy shit like that, I have no other choice but to infer that they’re just being lazy slobs.
should have parked behind him and blocked him in hahaha
Fuck you More-on. Just because you can limp around doesn’t mean that everyone else can. Your one dimensional way of looking at the world just shows how much of an idiot you really are.
What you fail to realize is, those spots are actually wider so people with disabilities who have to use walkers or wheelchairs have enough room to get in and out of their vehicles.
Didn’t think of that, did ya? Perhaps if you thought outside the tiny little box your pea sized brain is in, you’d realize that it’s not only people with limps who have handicapped parking permits.
Maybe you should have a conversation with wheelie about how easy it is to get his chair in and out of a vehicle and get in and out of said chair in a normal sized spot. Perhaps then you’d pull your head out of your arse and think about someone other than yourself.
o.p., this is halisux, or did you forget that fact, when you opened your eyes today. it happens all the time. take plate number, and make of vehicle, then call cops giving location of offending rig.
an addendum to LS – or let the air out of their tires, then call the cops.
Oh More.
Such a dooshmittennozzlething.
When I drive I actually need the larger space to safely get in and out of my car.
(and I *drive myself* Crazzzzzy!)
If I am boxed in, my doors don’t open all the way, and it is unsafe for me to transfer from car to chair/chair to car.
Just because there are assholes who park illegally doesn’t mean we should ditch the spots. Just we should maybe police them better, and hike the fines a bit more to discourage the “But I’ll only be a minute” guys and gals.
Another thing: just because you look at someone and don’t see a disability doesn’t count for shit. There is such thing as a “hidden disability”, where someone may have a heart condition or pins in their leg, but be completely ambulatory. Maybe they look awesome when they first get out of the vehicle, but soon tire or pain comes on, making it difficult to do long distances.
I tend to not challenge people with permits because of hidden disabilities. Unless they are doing cartwheels and carrying 300lb barbells.
When I lived in Toronto, around 1995, I was at my local 7/11. The only way in the store was the curb cut at the end of the building, the cut being in the blue spot. As I am sitting on the sidewalk having a popsicle, a man pulls up in his car, parks on the blue spot, over the only cut for me to exit the sidewalk. I asked him to repark, saying I was trapped until he came out and let me go, and it was for people with disabilities.
He said “I’ll be out in a few minutes, fuck off”.
Literally 30 seconds later a police car pulls up. I asked the cop if he could “ask the driver to not park in blue spots”. The cop gets a pissed look and says “Yeah?”, goes and gets his ticket book, puts a foot on the bumper and starts writing him up. The man came out, got in his car, started it, and put the car in drive and started to move. The cop flipped out, wrote him up for dangerous driving/assaulting a cop too.
It was awesome.
Yeah, but don’t forget: More-on is the ultimate authority on all things. If he thinks something’s one way THAT’S THE WAY IT IS.
And if you don’t agree and discredit him you’re of “inferior intelligence.”
*shakes head*
Also: I love your 7/11 story!!!!!
Sweet Wheelie! payback is a motherfucker, especially when you’re on the side of the angels.
I’m thinking of having a ream of bumperstickers made up that read:
“WHY YES, I BURN KORANS” and slapping them on illegally parked cars.
Back then I was a bit of a salty motherfucker. I spit on a lot of cars, scratched a few, even emptied a few garbage cans on the hoods of some. I’m not *that guy* anymore, but that guy still exists in other people who will not hesitate to mess with your vehicle.
“Special parking privledges”.
You’re a fucktard.
Making life more doable for those who less able is not “special”. It’s the right thing to do.
Go bite a fart.
speaking of disabilitiy plates, i should have one. due to the extraordinary length of my dick. takes forever to uncoil it from around my neck when i go to have a piss.
fuck, people are stupid when it comes to parking, and where to park legally. block them in, and call the cops.
google bad parking notes http://www.picturesandjokes.com/pictures/n…
About a year after I moved into my current building a car was acquired and we started using our parking space in the garage. About a week after we started using it, we came down to a nasty note on the windshield about assigned spaces and how we better get our car out of someone else’s “fucking parking space” and something about being towed. We called the super and she confirmed we were parking in the right spot.
I was just WAITING for another note to appear so I could write a dickmitten response, but one never came.
And who’s to say the driver wasn’t picking up someone who is disabled.
But then again I think those pregnant/new mommy spots are for the fucking birds. What the fuck gives with that?
I love you Ivan. sign me up for some of those bumper stickers!
Do you want them with or without the Mohammed Bomb Turban logo?
>; )
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If any of my fellow Bitches would like to see/hear some video of what I do for a job(no, my Amateur Night appearances at Ralph’s aren’t “work”), I will put a link to my youtube channel in my profile header for the next few hours.
Enjoy, Bitches!
go for it wheelie, i got tickets to that cop thing at the casino next month. bunch of comics going to be there.
Wheelip & PK love the name calling …oh my feeling is hurt…. shit sorry, my mistake that was gas !
You are both obviously handicapped & mentalhandicap issues like yours can’t be helped by anything but 6ft of soil or a crematorium.
The whole ‘handicapped system’ is fucked up & most of the people using them are not handicapped.
IF it wasn’t so abused I and others would not see all the perfectly fine people using them. Oh wait…I’m old now, give me a handicapped plate, I’m morbidly obese so I have to have one… they pass them out like bus transfers ! I didn’t even ask for one, it was fucking offered to me.
As for you needing a bigger parking space.
Ever been to a Cost co lately ?
THey have every spot is nice & wide. Every space has a nice double stripe giving even more room. So if they can do it…seems every other parking lot could be set up that way as well.
I’m an admirer of the Innu peoples past practice of leaving the old & the young, too sickly to survive out on the ice, to feed the bears.
Maybe the healthy could lobby the Gov to make some changes, I can bet Harper look into it if he could get a majority in the HoC.
In you guy’s case, maybe it could be feral cats, your fat carcasses could feed them for days !
This constant pandering to the sickly & infirm is bankrupting our society. Suicide booths disguised as the ” Official Office of Handicapped plate disbursement” would go a long way to fixing the problem. I’d volunter to work there for free.
“name calling”
You’re a fucktard. What’s the big whoop?
“or a crematorium”
*yawns*
Wow. You’re. So. Edgy.
The spaces are also next to the front door so someone with a mobility impairment doesn’t have to walk from the back of the parking lot, while someone who is able bodied parks next to the door. In my experience, I am able to push a shopping cart with one hand on the cart, the other pushing my chair. Doing this to a spot next to the door vs the back of the lot is the difference between me being independant, and having to have someone do it for me. While I have no problem asking for help when I need it, the things I *can*, I like to do.
I’m very sorry you can’t connect the logical dots here. You seem to have the “mental disability”.
“I’m old now, give me a handicapped plate”
Funny how someone old with trouble walking like they used to, or with a bad hip or knee, is pretending to have a disability, huh?
You’re a real humanitarian.
And a fucktard.
It’s really awesome that you, personally don’t need to park near the front door. Other people legitimately do need this though. If you could step out from behind you Asshole Agenda for five minutes and see this, you might be able to see our point.
“pandering to the sick and the infirm”
Ask your therapist what is at the root of your hatred for those who are like you, disabled.
You sound like a talkradio dipshit. Everything is so inflammatory. You’re like a self hating crippled Rush Limbaugh.
“as for you needing a bigger parking space”
Hey, fucktard, I reasonably explained why someone might need the bigger space. You not being able to understand this is your problem.
You are one of the funnier trolls on here!
Keep up the good work!
The thing I love the most is the people who park in the fire lanes in front of the store. In particular the Sobeys on Main St. They seem to have handicap issues too. Oh wait racially induced self entitlement is not a handicap….
More-on, just. stop. talking.
You’re really not doing yourself any favours.
PS: limp up to walmart from the costco and see how wide THOSE spots are.
Fucktard.
I don’t care WHO abuses “the system” as long as folks like wheelie can get in and out of their vehicles in public parking lots and those with mobility issues can get in and out of places with the least amount of pain possible.
Anyway, read what wheelie said again. I agree 100% however I have no inclination to type the exact same thing out again. And hay, you don’t seem like the brightest crayon in the box, More-on, so you might actual benefit from re reading that. Very. very. sloooowly.
I read it slowly .
It still makes no sense.
Your no better than anyone else.
You deserve no special privileges, neither do I.
First come, first serve is the way our shopping system is run. People queuing to pay for purchases,doesn’t have a handicapped space or “special register”
WHy is that ?
Cost perhaps.
Face it folks, many of the people who use handicapped parking are playing the system.
IT DOESN’T WORK.
SO that’s the problem, & if it doesn’t work, then it should be fixed, or tossed in the trash.
Saying that it does help the few that need it.
Doesn’t change the fact it is abused by the many.
[Citation needed]
Oh I’ll take some of those bumper stickers Ivan :)! What a fun day that would be ;D
My friend always parks in the Expecting Mothers parking spots. She’s not even pregnant, but she figures the Moms-to-be can use the exercise to burn off some of that fat they gain.
I have always wanted to park there too Seb. It’s not like they’re going to make me take a pregnancy test as soon as I step out of my car and some women just don’t show much. Or I could just be one month pregnant teehee. I reallly hate those hybrid parking spots. They might as well say “douche parking”.
“Your no better than anyone else.” ~More-on
*shakes head*
FUCK did you even pass 6th grade?
Your argument in this thread is asinine. And it’s clear wheelie and myself are wasting our time trying to get your small mind to comprehend anything with any reason.
How do you even function in normal society? Frig.
===Your no better than anyone else.
You deserve no special privileges, neither do I.
First come, first serve is the way our shopping system is run. People queuing to pay for purchases,doesn’t have a handicapped space or “special register” ===
You make a trio of answers here. Answers to non-existant points.
===WHy is that ?===
Because you are arguing with yourself for the sake of arguing.
You can’t counter anything we actually *have* said, so you answer things we *haven’t*.
And as you pointed out earlier, I was, in fact insulting you, you giant heap of steaming tard.
Go bite a fart. I think the doctor put the pins in your brain and missed your leg entirely.
And you’re right, you do limp.
Mentally and socially.
Thank you ladies and hentlemen, I’ll be here all week.