Blue Badge (disabled bays)

Jac · 26-04-2007, 06:39 PM

Well it happened today again!!! agh. I was parked in a disabled bay, just getting out the car and this big fat man came charging over and told me to move as he wanted my space. To begin with I was taken aback, then he said I had no right being there

Well my blood boiled at that point. I said I had as much right as any other disabled person. He laughed and said I was'nt. I then took my (folding) stick out my bag, flashed my badge and told him to stop being so agressive. I had every right. He then said sorry

but he was fed up with (young) ones taking spaces. I suppose it was a complement in a way but I thought at first he was going to hit me. What can you do?

alexgirl73 · 26-04-2007, 06:53 PM

Such restraint Jac! I'd have hit him with my stick lol! Blooming eejit!

Jac · 26-04-2007, 08:11 PM

@ Alex, No you wouldn't.

When I told Derek he said you dont have to walk with a limp or have a stick to be disabled and I should have asked to see his badge. Funny how it never happens when he's with me.

Soupie · 27-04-2007, 07:46 AM

[quote=Tanya;368522]I find that its usually the people too lazy to walk an extra couple of metres to the supermarket the steals the disabled parking spaces - oh, and the crazy mothers who cant control their 6 kids!!!

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or they could be one of the hundreds of people under 65 who are denied blue badges by Councils

I have been trying to get one for two years - another interview in two weeks actually. I freely admit to using a space without one but as I am in a wheelchair or on two crutches and crippled I'm gong to continue to do so. A lot of the time the people I see with badges are more mobile than me

There is a massive group of people out there - children and people under 30 who cannot get badges as the local authorities often just blanket deny them

alexgirl73 · 27-04-2007, 08:03 AM

Good luck Soupie, I really hope you get one. Do you not get higher rate DLA mobility?

CathyW · 03-05-2007, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jac

@ Alex, No you wouldn't.

When I told Derek he said you dont have to walk with a limp or have a stick to be disabled and I should have asked to see his badge. Funny how it never happens when he's with me.

my sentiments exactly, i have days where im really out of breath and im puffing n panting (might need more work on the heart) and i get dirty looks, i had one woman ranting at me, so i asked her did she want to see my medication list, and the blue badge. she really upset me.
londons the worse for ppl parking in the bays, and when u point it out to them they just shrug. i started telling them that tescos where issuing 60 quid on the spot fines and they soon drive off LOl

alexgirl73 · 03-05-2007, 10:14 AM

I had to hold Robert back on monday! We had gone up to the centre and I was walking holding onto his arm and using my stick. I didn't see her but Robert says this woman looked at me, looked at my stick, looked me up and down and walked off rolling her eyes! He was raging!!!! Obviously as I don't have grey hair and a blue rinse I can't really need it! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

yola · 03-05-2007, 11:05 AM

It's horrible that people are so assumptive in their typecasting of 'disabled' people. The parking spaces are a major issue. Out local Waitrose only have 3, and they are always full. But the number of times I have seen non-disabled people parking in there amazes me.

On a similar note, I have often offered one or both of my children to 'non-childrened' people parking in the parent/child parking spaces. They don't see the funny side of that surprisingly enough

CathyW · 04-05-2007, 10:18 PM

if theres no disabled bays left, a blue badge holder can park in a parent n baby bay, but they have to still display their badges.
i think there should be a heavy fine for those who park wrongly.in london theres quite a few badges that have been stolen, and being used by those who dont need them, especially as u dont pay congestion charge with those badges.

sarahd · 04-05-2007, 10:44 PM

We have a blue badge for my son who is 15 and disabled.
He went out a few weeks ago with his rehab worker and it was when we had the really heavy winds.
They had forgotten to take the blue badge with them but parked in the disabled space anyway due to Steven nearly being blown off his feet by the wind. He has limited use of his right hand side and walks with a limp at the best of times so you can imagine trying to keep your balance in that wind.
Anyway two mins later along came a traffic warden and put a parking ticket on the car. They tried reasoning with the parking attendant and she refused despite the fact that my son was hanging on to his carer for dear life so as not to be blown over.
We since have had to write to Leeds City Council proving she has the right to work with my son in the first place, prove we have a blue badge secondly and thirdly have it made out to us that we have been given a favour by not being fined.
Then like you say there are people who dont even have a blue badge that park there in the disabled bays usually with someone still in the car waiting for them to come back out. They still dont even move when they see you waiting for a disabled parking space.

God its annoying lol

Sarah
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