It annoys me when disabled people use the badge to park on yellow lines when there's no need.
We only use disabled spaces when we absolutely have to, so as to leave them available for others. Since Hil normally travels in a scooter kept in the car boot we can usually park in an ordinary space because the distance doesn't matter within reason to us, whereas it matters more to someone pushing a manual chair, especially on slopey ground.
Bill
For the avoidance of doubt Hil travels in the front passenger seat when we're driving.
Bill
get yourself an LHD vehicle and confuse everybody.
If he then takes the car and later collects her from where he dropped her off he is.
Copied from on the governments guidelines for blue badge use
"The badge is for your use and benefit only. It must only be displayed if you are travelling in the vehicle as a driver or passenger, or if someone is collecting you or dropping you off and needs to park at the place where you are being collected or dropped."
Note that last bit about the parking has to be where you are being collected or dropped off. If he isn't doing that then the badge holder or him could be fined substantially for misusing the badge.
It's quite a selfish thing to do really as disabled spaces are limited and his misuse could be depriving use of a space for somebody who really needs it such as a disabled person who can still drive themselves but has limited mobility outside the car.
Why does he do it, save a few bob on parking charges?
Many authorities no longer give reduced or free parking because of abuse by people like him and the only benefit of the disabled spaces is they are generally nearer to the area the car park serves and wider bays.
G.Harman
Oh good. Do you let her help with the gears and indicators, or is her participation purely instructional?
Owain
No. Many places that might be visited by the disabled person do not have their own parking spaces. Logic suggests that then nearest Blue Badge Parking space is where to park.
No. To find somewhere to park. It's allowed.
There is no abuse.
She drives when I'm pissed up.
Bill
I have mobility problems (but no Blue Badge). I parked in a local supermarket car park last week on the opposite side of the aisle to the Blue Badge places.
Three cars arrived - from the opposite direction to the store - so had not been dropping anybody off there - almost simultaneously and parked in the Blue Badge spaces.
A man with two young children emerged from the first one and they set off at a sprightly pace. A woman in the second car trotted off to the store.
Anther woman emerged from the last car almost opposite where I was. Her car obstructed my view but she did seem to be walking strangely as she came towards me and appeared behind her car and took her bags out of the boot. All was then revealed: the baggy jeans didn't quite go with the 8 inch stillettos - its years since I've seen such high heels - which were obviously responsible for her awkward gait as she tottered off to the shop.
They may have been displaying Blue Badges but I very much doubt that any of them were the badge owner.
a few years ago, an obviously able man parked in the Blue Badge slot beside the entrance of a local garden centre. He was asked to move it, but refused. By chance the fork lift truck managed to block the car in. The car owner became beligerent, so the police were called, It turned out that they had been looking, unsuccessfully, for this man for a few weeks/
Moral: if you are wanted by the police, don't do silly things.
Those are the ones suffering from the severe disability of being blind! They need their licence revoked as they have failed the eyesight standards for driving.
Most people wanted by the police don't have the sense to avoid being stupid. They also tend not to care.
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