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    The RTA used to give you a couple of signs to place on car windows of those who parked and didn't have the cards.
    "Being Lazy Isn't a Disability" the other I can't recall they stopped them as one fellow got bashed hospitalized and nearly died by some mongrel.

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    Disabled drivers always winging about non-disabled using their parking places well I had a blue with one of them disabled drivers today , he was trying to park in one of our spots ,
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    A while ago in my supermarket car park, I'd see big stickers on the side windows of cars that were parked where they shouldn't be. They basically said 'You're a naughty boy', and they looked like they would be pretty hard to remove. I'd imagine that if the drivers had an accident from lack of visibility, they may be able to sue. I'm sure that if it were in the US they'd try.

    What's the story with issuing fines for illegal use of disabled spaces on private property? Warringah Mall is huge, it's all private property, and there's disabled spaces peppered all over the place.


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    Disabled drivers always winging about non-disabled using their parking places well I had a blue with one of them disabled drivers today , he was trying to park in one of our spots ,
    Well done Ashmore


    Quote Originally Posted by pawnhead View Post
    A while ago in my supermarket car park, I'd see big stickers on the side windows of cars that were parked where they shouldn't be. They basically said 'You're a naughty boy', and they looked like they would be pretty hard to remove. I'd imagine that if the drivers had an accident from lack of visibility, they may be able to sue. I'm sure that if it were in the US they'd try.
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    What's the story with issuing fines for illegal use of disabled spaces on private property? Warringah Mall is huge, it's all private property, and there's disabled spaces peppered all over the place.
    Local councils rangers are supposed to issue fines police rearly get involved these days.

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    Default Handicaped Parking

    I could apply for a Handicaped Parking Permit due to my breathing problem but I refuse to as long as I can get along without it.

    I watch the cars parked in the handicaped spots and when I see one there without the sticker I go up to them and ask them if they are practising to be handicaped? Most times this will shame them into moving and if it dosen't, I don't hesitate to report them to security or police. Here in Ontario, Canada it is a $200.00 fine for parking in a handicaped spot.

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    Heyn Im a Wally I think you had better pick another name cos I got one of them acrod -disabled thingeys and I be the poor bugger always driving past the full ones. One clown A pig farmer with a trailer on and picking up bread at local baker that I challenged pointed to his sticker. obviously one for his wife who wasn't in attendance and couldn't have got in anyway . I gave him a serve and was greeted with a single finger salute and told to F@#* off with an italian accent He wasn't coming any closer once I turned the stick around So this Wally thinks ma'be something like Gringo . We copped it in the Wally with water and now Wally parkers Sorry but that grates Wally

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    Pusser's article about the UK situation is similar to New York when it was under Rudi Guiliani, they found that people who ran red lights, stop signs & parked in handicap spaces were more likely to be crims than not.
    Many had unpaid fines, outstanding warrants and stolen goods , drugs etc in the car.
    On the the disabled parking spaces, I know they are placed closer to the entrances of shopping centers, but I often wonder how far far those people then travel inside the shopping center, some of these new places are huge !

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    Tonka, needed parking space can come into the reckoning.

    Distance is also a consideration, but wheel chairs are quite often provided for customers inside those huge places.
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    All human behaviour is complex and can not be neatly put in boxes with a label on it. I did once put my car in a space marked for the disabled. It was the first time I had to see a medical specialist and I had enquired about parking. The receptionist said that it was difficult, (the doctor's office was in a building with other professionals) but that there was at the very end of the small private carpark under the building, where you had to know it was there, a spot that was marked for the disabled to ensure that there would be a bay available for the doctor's patients. Maybe she was mislead herself of just tried too hard to be helpful, I do not know; the result was that I parked there and had a tyre let down.

    Maybe I was just unlucky that a genuinely disabled and vindictive person had arrived to meet some other professional, but I like to think that it was just an idiot who had a grudge with somebody and was too stupid to realise that occupying the bay for the time needed to call the RAA and get the tyre replaced was more detrimental to the disabled than the time I was there. Or somebody had cottoned on with the well intentioned deception of the tenants of the building and expressed their disapproval. Who knows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest View Post
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    Maybe I was just unlucky that a genuinely disabled and vindictive person

    Jeez you were lucky mate!

    Just a flat tyre..................crickey you should be glad that they didn't wait for you to come back !


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    When I rode a small motorbike, I used to get P'd off when motorists would move it out aof a legal parking spot so they could park there. I used to retaliate by leaving a note to say that I'd loosened the nuts on one wheel. They should try to guess which one.
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    Yesterday Sob in landcruiser, parked in d spot outside video store.
    I drove round block couple of times until the peson behind him moved.
    I got out, and driver was chatting mobile.

    I pointed to my sons brace and he mouthed "Icant hear you"
    I tapped on window' he waved me away.
    So I parked him in and went shopping!

    PS my cars pretty old

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    How do you know there wasn't a disabled MIL, FIL, wife, daughter or son in the video store? I used to quite often take my mother to the store when she was still alive.

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    then you are supposed to display the disabled parking permit on your car
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