I do not know the story behind this but it is a fun few minutes:
The info for the video is worth reading:
Drill Sergeant Catches IDIOT in the act of parking illegally in a Handicapped Spot (GRAPHIC) I got permission from the "Drill Sgt." to reuse this video if your interested in helping catching Idiot's parking illegally in a Handicap spots Handicappedfraud.org was launched as a community service effort to end the misuse of handicapped parking spaces and placards. The disabled have run out of places to park, as their designated handicapped parking spaces are being taken by fraudulent individuals. Our cities are being robbed of serious metered parking revenue by this abuse as well. The police are far too valuable and busy to stake out parking lots to ticket handicapped parking violators. The abusers go largely unpunished. It's time for our community to become the ambassadors for our cities, and report handicapped parking violators when they see it.
Remember that we can not know somebody's personal situation. Many handicapped people are hassled over their lack of a visual disability by well meaning citizens. Posting your handicapped parking violator report will allow the DMV to do their job, and keep you out of a personal confrontation. We have received hundreds of emails from handicapped individuals applauding this effort, and want to continue to serve them and our communities in a peaceful and positive way.
The HandicappedFraud iPhone application is the fastest and easiest way to report placard and handicapped parking abuse.
The Sgt nor I have any affiliation to handicappedfraud.org
Cheers, Rick
This is a personal issue as I know a number of handicapped people and my Mom was confined to a chair for the last 15 years of her life. When I first moved to Bellingham, there was one smug little a**hole who shopped at Costco that had one of the SMART4TWO cars -- they would park in the wonderfully wide aisle between two of Costco's handicapped stalls.
The moron did not think that some cars have ramps that come out from the side and that space that is marked off with yellow stripes does not denote "MY PERSONAL PARKING SPACE".
My Mom and I once spent about 45 minutes talking while sitting in her van (with the engine running of course) waiting for the idiot to come out and find that we were blocking 'his personal space'. I had been fulminating for 45 minutes and had a nice rant going. Deployed the ramp and demonstrated why that cordoned off space was essential to my Mom's mobility.
Educating the stupid is an uphill battle but it has its moments :)
Posted by DaveH at May 8, 2012 10:31 PM