Date: 14 December 2006
Time 10:45
Location: Countdown supermarket, Upper Hutt
Vehicle Reg: XJ6456
Disabled carpark clearly displayed? YES
Disabled carpark signposted? YES
Operation Mobility authorisation displayed in vehicle? NO
If you own this car and you don’t like your picture being here, then provide verifiable evidence of a $100 donation to Operation Mobility, and I’ll remove it.
While your car obstructed this space, and the others were likewise occupied, I watched an elderly couple wait for a space so they could do their shopping. The gentleman could barely walk and needed to have a trolly brought to him to hold him up.
Just an observation.
Merry Christmas.
And in the words of the Carpenters: “We’ve only just begun”.
December 14, 2006 at 1:00 pm |
Some people are real pigs.
My parents are both eldery diabetics who have trouble walking. They also have trouble finding places to park because of idiots parking in handicapped spaces.
Keep posting the pictures. Maybe some of the morons will think twice next time.
December 14, 2006 at 1:07 pm |
Good work! For a few dollars you can get the post office to tell you who owns it. And then I’d never suggest you mention to all your dog owning friends that their letterbox is a great place to deposit their dogs’ er deposits.
Never.
December 14, 2006 at 1:15 pm |
I recall seeing a handicapped parking sign in a private lot which indicated that cars not displaying a handicapped plate of placard were likely to be severely vandalized (and that parking in violation of the notice constituted the owner’s consent and invitation for same). It seemed to be rather more effective than the threat of a $50 fine.
Many years back when I was clerking at a Public Defender office (when I was on the tipping point of falling liberal, that was a dose of reality to prevent such slide), we had a private lot in the center of a block in the busy downtown area. It included a 15 foot by 30 foot sign advising of the private lot status and threatening towing for violations. It was always full of non-staff cars.
The attorneys took to parking behind the offending cars so as to block them in. They would then leave their keys with a secretary upstairs. The receptionist would very sincerely tell the car owners (whose vision was remarkably clearer when they went to leave) that Mr. X had gone to court and wuld be back at 5:00 or so. After 15 or 20 minutes, Mr. X’s keys would be “discovered” and one of us clerks would go out and move the car (”Boy, you’re really lucky he remembered to leave his keys this time, He usually forgets.”). Pretty few repeat offenders on that one.
December 15, 2006 at 3:09 pm |
Good on you. However, it has also been drawn to my attention that disabled people are parking in non-disabled carparks. This is also an abomination worthy of your attentions.
December 16, 2006 at 6:50 am |
Good on you.
Keep doing it. In fact, if I see any I’ll snap them with my camera phone and send them to you. We all should.
December 18, 2006 at 10:55 pm |
Decentre: When there are a sufficient proportion of accessible carparks in all places, I’m sure you will see less of your abomination. Given that mobility is a HUGE issue for anyone who legitimately uses an accessible carpark, having a disabled carpark a quarter of a kilometre from their desired destination is not helpful at all, whereas, for those that don’t need an accessible carpark, a walk to their destination will probably not be such a big issue, just a mere irritation..
December 18, 2006 at 11:12 pm |
Jason I’m going to go out on a limb here ands suggest that Decentre was being ironic.
I could be wrong but thats my assumption.
December 19, 2006 at 8:29 am |
Murray, Jason may have simply assumed Decentre was another of your lefty trolls striking another blow for sort of identity politics so fashionable among those circles these days. Had he suggested appropriate set asides for the GLBT and indiginous peoples, we could have been sure of it.
December 19, 2006 at 8:34 am |
Yes it is difficult to separate parody and irony from the brain damaged left these days. Let’s assume that if the comment had made it’s nature clear as more leftie PC hysteria that I would have jumped on that grenade to spare you all the need to roll your eye’s for the 300th time today.
I just gave it the benefit of the doubt.
December 19, 2006 at 12:24 pm |
people have some nerve. makes me sick, i see it all the time up here in the windy city.
December 19, 2006 at 12:39 pm |
If only there was some way of fighting back. If only there was some kind of way of making these people public.
If only there was SOME way of mass communicating images…
Oh well.
December 19, 2006 at 5:51 pm |
You could always print off on A4 paper a polite invitaion to “F**k off on pain or being rendered a qualifier for disabled parking” and tuck it under the windscreen wiper. Add a PD ‘We know where you live.”
December 19, 2006 at 5:54 pm |
Then there’s the good old jack up one drive wheel and block it so the tyre just touches the ground but has no traction. Coupled with the polite message this will probably register, especially when you have a group of six burly and obviously fit blokes on crutches or using baseball bats as walking sticks approach the car to offer ‘assistance.’
December 20, 2006 at 9:45 am |
Attaching the note to the windscreen with the baseball bat might also get the message across.
December 20, 2006 at 3:54 pm |
Blaesz – greetings to a fellow west suburban Chi’towner and Blackwawk fan (but not a Wirtz lover).
December 24, 2006 at 6:13 pm |
It’s like a whole other language.