snerk That’s perfect!
From the California Driver’s handbook
and here is the actual code section:
Ick. My parents have a hang tag for a friend of theirs who my mother often chauffeurs around town. And when parking is scarce, they often joke ‘man, if only Vera were here, we could use the tag!’ But they’d never in a million years seriously consider using the tag when she wasn’t there. That would be defeating the whole purpose of having handicapped spaces in the first place.
My vote is a report to HR (go the cowardly anonymous route if that’s possible) or parking enforcement for your town.
Unless the handicapped person is in the car, you are not entitled to use the space. We have one for Ivylad. Once, while we were vacationing in Georgia, my BILs and SILs and I were out running around, and we took our minivan. Ivylad was not with us. My BIL said we could park in a handicapped space, and immediately my SILs and I screeched like harpies.
Does not compute. Now, the “not watching where you’re going” thing is a problem… but there’s no such thing as walking too fast. My life would be immeasurably improved if most people would stop moving through public spaces as if they were Romero zombies.
As for the parking space, report him to HR. They presumably know that he’s not disabled.
My place of work has a few different buildings. There’s this one manager who works in a different building than I but is in my building a few times a week for meetings or to drop things off. He’s also a complete dick head.
Apparently, he would sometimes park in the handicapped space in front of our building when he was only going to be there for a short time or when he was running late. The silly thing is that the entire lot isn’t all that big and it’s never totally full. He wouldn’t have had to walk very far in the worst of circumstances.
I don’t know how a cop happened to be in the lot that day but he got a ticket. He was totally pissed off. Oh man, that was funny. I couldn’t stop laughing for minutes.
IANAD nor a lawyer - In NY, AIUI, the hang tags are issued to specific people, not vehicles. As such, unless that person is in the car, it’s not legal to use the hang tag. Even if that’s where you normally keep the it stored.
Oh, hell, Steve is known for that. They even repainted the logo into a Mercedes emblem once because of it.
He also doesn’t have plates on his car. Why? Cause he’s Steve Jobs.
Thirded.
Besides, they always remind me of The Monkey Wrench Gang, which puts a grin on my face.
I disagree. People need to slow down a bit when they are turning corners; carrying things like hot coffee or burning objects, etc.
I don’t mind slowpokes so much, unless it’s a group of people walking in such a way as to obstruct everyone else.
I get thrown for a loop when I go with somebody that has a disabled permit. Instead of passing the entrance and heading down the rows of cars, I’m stopped 10 feet from the doors. It’s like we’re parked, but we just pulled into the lot, we can’t be parked.
But do you think you could use your ladder truck to push all the other cars out of the fire lane who are just parked there to run in for a minute? And film it and post it here so I can get the cockles of my heart warmed? Please?
I think the penalty for misuses of handicapped tags should be getting the word “JERK” tattooed on your forehead. That seems appropriate.
You forgot scissors.
Obviously, care should be taken. But certainly there’s a happy medium between the idiot who comes barreling out of the office kitchen carrying his very-recently-boiling cup-a-soup, and the idiot who shuffles at a snail’s pace down busy city streets.
Hey, I’m delighted for all those people who apparently have nothing in particular to do today, as long as they stay to the right and don’t impede *my * progress.
Louisiana actually issues you an ID card that goes with the number on the hanging placards. Nobody ever asked to see mine, but in theory, if somebody else uses one but doesn’t have the ID they can get in trouble (and they should!).
I don’t know if any other states do this, but I think it’s a good idea.
Or we could just break out the caltrops. That’d be cool.
The problem with caltrops is that they make the offending vehicle less mobile. What we need is a winch. On a helicopter.
I’ve maintained for years that anyone who parks in a handicapped space when they are not qualified to do so should be immediately qualified to park there. With the nature of the qualifying handicap to be determined by a panel of handicapped people who previously had been deprived of the use of a handicapped space by illegal users.
“I was trying to find a parking spot and this guy pulls into a handicapped spot. He gets out and there’s nothing wrong with him! …So I ran him over. I made an honest man out of him!” - Walter, Jeff Dunham
Then his wife got out of the other side and started beating me with her crutches! -Walter, Jeff Dunham
-Eben
That’s quite a mature position to take. If you feel that this person is trash and you have no interest in getting the law involved, why would you want to damage his vehicle? I don’t know any people who are trash, although I do know some who are misguided and prone to thinking of themselves rather than others, and although it might cause this person monetary costs, so would getting a ticket. Perhaps you should round up all your anger and just confront the person head on. You certainly sound like one of those badasses I hear so much about, espescially with the calling people trash thing.
Sounds like somebody is jealous that his wife isn’t disabled.