They still need a larger than normal space to get in and out of the vehicle.
Wow! That’s jerky!
No, I would not and never have. I’ve never even parked in a handicapped spot!
Yes and I have tried to explain that to this creep. But he gas no guilt or shame and continues to use HC spaces because he is lazy.
The only advantage I took with the placard for my MIL was to not have to feed the DC parking meters.
I only use mom’s handicapped parking placard when I go to the gym. 
I would never do it if there was just one spot either, or a couple. But sometimes I see where there are a bunch of empty handicapped spots and those are the only open spots. In situations like that you can be reasonably sure you wouldn’t be taking the space from someone who needs it. Even if I WAS driving a car with a handicapped tag, this would hardly ever come up, because I don’t mind walking if it’s far away, and I usually just avoid going places when parking is likely to be an issue, or take the bus. But say you’re just going to the ATM for 3 minutes and there are 4 empty handicapped spots and 0 other spots and you’re in a big hurry. In that case I really don’t see the harm, and potentially causing harm is the only thing that makes it a bad thing to do.
Wasn’t me! I promise! :eek:
July 2012
I’ve been in the position to need a temp decal before (post-leg surgery), and a tthe rate things are going, I may need one again one of these days (severe post-traumatic arthritis in my left ankle - I am walking with a cane at the moment, but hopefully not for long this go-around), and so no way in Hell would I ever use one fraudulently.
Back in the day (early 90s) I went to huge college that had almost no public parking or even permit parking for about a 2 mile radius around campus. There were vast tracts of mostly unoccupied handicapped spaces. Several acquaintances specialized in acquiring temp. placards and selling them for so much it paid for huge portions of the very not cheap tuition. Soooo tempting to do, but wrong.
Total parking ticket bill over three years? Somewhere around $5,000.
I will say that if I thought that illegal activity hampered actual handicapped individuals’ ability to park, I would have put a stop to it. But we’re talking 30 to 40 empty spaces in each parking lot even during peak class attendance time.
I might use one if the alternative is walking a huge distance. For example, if the choice was use my mom’s card and park next to a building I have to get to or walk 2 miles, I’d probably use the card. If ever single regular spot in a lot is full, I think the next person looking for a space should be allowed to use the handicapped spot, or the new-mother’s spot, or at least the expectant mother’s spot. Yes, I know that would be a pain to enforce.
We went to an event once where my sister and I both drove. I took my mom who has a handicap permit, so we parked in the absolute best spot, 20 feet from the front door. Tons of empty handicap spots in the area. My sister had to walk 2 miles from the overflow parking lot. She isn’t handicapped but that is a whole lot of walking for her. What purpose does that serve?
Oops, to clarify, having such a placard was occasionally tempting, not obtaining and selling the placards.
What kind of vile excreasance would do such a thing?
I had to drive my dad’s car (with handicapped license plates) periodically and if he was not with me I just took a non-handicapped spot. If it was still too far for him I would simply have him wait at the entrance and I would retrive the car and pick him up. That happened a few times where there were no available handicapped spaces. No biggie.
I can understand the vigilante attitude, but damaging somone’s property is over the line. Damaging them in person would be preferrable.
My college roommate and I did, once, when we were driving her parents’ car (placard for her grandmother) and there was no other parking whatsoever available where we were going. We were young and stupid, is my only excuse: nowadays we’d wait, or park a block away, or whatever.
Nowadays, no. I had a hard enough time when taking my mother places: she genuinely could not walk that far and we had a lot of instances where there were no spaces available. Annoying as hell. And my own recent experience with a broken bone - spaces were simply not available on several of the times I truly needed them.
You were lucky you didn’t get some very expensive parking tickets!
If it happens again, contact the doctor and ask for a temporary placard, for heaven’s sake!!
The car I drive is registered to my dad and has the disabled tags on it.I have never parked in a spot reserved for the disabled and never will.IIRC,it is illegal(in Michigan) to use the spots if you aren’t handicapped, even if you have the tags on the car you are driving.
JamieMcGary is gonna hunt you down.
Imma silent assassin baby…(well, with some wd-40 I will be silent) 
I would never park in a handicapped spot. I think it’s a terrible thing to do. I have a friend who uses his mother’s handicap permit. She died over a year ago which makes it worse.
I already posted this in another thread but I figured it may be relevant here, too. You may find it interesting.