So, you’re investigating murders as well?
I think this is where a lot of your problems lie. Dialogues don’t happen as a result of being near someone. They happen because you start talking. If you didn’t start talking a dialogue wouldn’t have started, I think it’s safe to say she wouldn’t have started it.
I think regardless of how much emphasis you put on the innocuousness of your actual comments, the bottom line is that you have a history of confronting other drivers over their parking in a handicapped space. In fact, your first thread on the boards was about you bringing it to the attention of the news media and how you’d gotten kicked out of the gym as a result. So I don’t think it’s unfair to take the many instances of you creating these situations and see it as a pattern, and you continuing to act coy about it doesn’t change the fact that you seek out these situations pretty regularly.
It’s your pet issue, fine. But don’t be surprised when people get irritated by you playing Junior Security Cop, even if you italicize how innocent and completely borne out of curiosity and concern for them not getting a ticket your questions/statements were, your inquiry was not innocent. Ask yourself, how would your response have been different if the girl told you they didn’t need a placard because she was only going to be in the store for a minute to buy cigarettes? Would you have parked your car behind hers and inflamed the situation again, or were you really just curious and would have moved on about your business after that?
Also, if we look at Jaime’s use of emoticons, bolding, italics, quotes and other things to emphasize his posts they don’t convey (to me) that the person typing is calm, cool and collected.
Jaime can say what he wants, but I’ve read enough of his threads to get the feeling that he puts people on the defensive as soon as he opens his mouth.
Jaime I would stab you if you did that to me irl.
:eek:
Threatening other posters is definitely not allowed. Do not do this again.
what do I type here done almost caught a case.
Dude that’s way over the top and I’m sure you don’t mean it.
However, to the OP… you could might actually encounter a crazy such as this so be careful with your confrontations. Most are simply not worth it.
You are correct, I do live in Davison. However, I was in Flint when this incident at Rite Aid occurred. I was on my way home and I was driving through Flint and I stopped at the drug store near my parents house.
You’d stab me if I asked you if you had a permit on your illegally parked vehicle? Hmm, might be time to try decaf…:eek:
I’m not a law enforcement officer, but I’d guess that the law actually doesn’t depend on a LEO being visible.
Higher crime? Some people might assert that there’s higher street crime where poor people live, but there are other kinds of crime. I doubt there’s a lot of short-selling and mortgage securitizing going on there.
The land speeder is booted for failing to display a placard. 
I have a hard time believing that – you’re on the Internet, after all.
There’s a story of Confederates marching through Fredericksburg, and a young lady and a pale young man watching from a window as the column passes. The soldiers noticed the young man and began teasing him that they had plenty of spare rifles if he wanted to join them.
At that point, the pale young man silently hoisted the stump of his leg into view and rested it on the window frame.
By way of apology, the officer in charge drew the column up and presented arms in salute.
Hey, just as you :eek: in response to his stabbing statement, I :eek: that you approach a stranger and question their compliance with the law.
You’re a good guy. Try to stay alive.
I just wanted to drop by and mention that I thought of this thread about twenty minutes ago as I pulled into a handicapped spot to jump a friends car. FTR, the other side would have (literally) blocked the door and the pushing his car out would have blocked the entire parking lot (it’s one row, but very long).
I have to stop reading the SDMB at work. People here, I’m sure, have long suspected I’m a bit off but now they must be certain, as I am damn near dying at my desk, and the harder I try to stop laughing, the worst it gets. He would stab him. Damn!
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Those are extenuating circumstances that, I believe, justify you pulling into the spot. What you did in no way compares to “abuse”.
If the two of you are both single…Hey, it could be magic!! 
Do you consider not properly displaying a legal placard as “abuse”?
Another thing I want to mention is, over the years I have asked many, many people parking in handicapped-accessible parking if they did in fact have a permit to park there. On a few occassions I have been shown a valid placard, which was poorly displayed or not yet put up (or just put away) by the driver. When this happens, I always am very apologetic and explain why I asked them about their permit in the first place (the glut of abuse, the need that those who truly are disabled have for those spaces, etc).
What I have come to notice, by and large, is that those who are legitimately parked in the handicapped spots are very understanding and empathetic to my questioning about their lack of a visible permit. They understand because they often deal with the same hardships that I (and other handicapped individuals) must endure associated with people abusing those spots.
It is typically the ones who shouldn’t be there in the first place who are the ones who get belligerently defensive and atrociously nasty at the first innocent mention of their lack of permit. They blow up and do everything they can to “sidetrack” the situation away from their wrongdoing. That is exactly what was happening with this situation at RiteAid. There is not a doubt in my mind that this lady had no business parking in handicap parking. And she knew it too.