Disabled Parking Permits

Pirate wrote:
I routinely hassle people who park on the blue lines, hogging the spot next to them. I think there should be two forms of handicap permits - those that need parking due to an assistive device like a wheelchair and those that just need to be close. I'm about sick of seeing someone snap up a front spot at a major store and then run in like nothing is wrong. The entire system is corrupt and full of lazy people.

This last sentence is so true. Obviously no one is speaking to those of you who have real debilitating health conditions, so don't get offended, but there are an awful lot of lazy people out there and there is so much corruption going on that this system is beyond broken. So how does it get fixed? Instead of advocating for more spaces, how do we discourage the rampant abuses and misuse? Enforcement and high fines don't seem to have any effect, shaming doesn't seem to work, and evidently challenging someone is a grave offense, so what to do? I don't have the answer, but it seems to me that those who need these spaces would be open to anything that would keep abusers and the lazy out of those spaces. If I were a less than honest person, I could take my uncles placard at any time and go down to the local store and park, and no one would be the wiser. Even if someone asked me, I would just tell them to myob, and that I have an invisible disability. Isn't that what some people are suggesting? Don't for a minute think that this is not already happening. I know people who are doing it.

I'm grateful that I don't need a disabled placard. I do not envy those that need one and that have to park at the front of the store. I am not lazy and in both my RV and my truck I always park the furthest away that I can find. It keeps the cart dings and door dings to a minimum.

I guess there is no easy solution to this dilemma as long as there are selfish, lazy and corrupt people in the world.