Disabled Parking Permits

traveylin wrote:
This topic of HC permit miss use Does seem to come up frequent enough with passionate folks jumping in. We all see folks at the check out using food stamps to purchase the equivalent of lobster and fili mignon(spelling?) ...

I can give an example of why a prosperous looking person might be using food stamps. ;)

When I visited my grandmother, I would always run errands for her. Occasionally, she would ask if I would pick up something for a friend of hers too. Many of the older ladies at her extended care facility were income challenged and used food stamps. I felt a little funny about using their food stamps to buy their groceries, but no one ever challenged me.

I've also seen blatant HC abuse. A young family in a wheel chair lift van parks and they all get out and run into the store. Obviously the one needing the wheelchair wasn't with them that day. An electrician doing a service call parks his van, with HC hang tag, in the HC spot at the entrance. While I was waiting, I saw him make several trips to the van carrying tools and equipment. I can understand why he would want a spot near the entrance but that was not what the HC was for. A former husband's friend picked us up at the airport. She bragged that she borrowed her mother's HC tag to get a closer parking spot and to avoid the parking fee. Where I used to work, a secretary used her husband's tag to park in the HC spot and was mad when someone with a legitimate tag would beat her to the only HC spot. etc...

I would never confront someone about their use of a HC spot but I will vote for laws making it harder to get a tag and support tighter enforcement of HC parking rules.