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[MadAdey]

I am not sure if people have seen this before but i felt the urge to share it with others that have not.

http://rantosaurus.com/benefit-cuts/raf-veterans-blue-badge-revoked/

How many people have seen people that do not need these badges using them, like people who are supposedly on disability, but can still go and play golf and have trips to the gym. I have never knowingly parked on the blue badge slots as they are for people less fortunate than myself, but you see plenty of ably bodied people using them on their own, because a family member is disabled, even though that person is not with them.

I just hate it when someone who is obviously not scrounging off the country, but just asking for a little bit of help when he goes shopping gets treated like this. This council needs naming and shaming and I do not care what sort of bureaucracy they say it is tied up in and they can't do anything, as that is a load of crap.

RANT OVER

 

[woody69]

Further down in the comments it states the decision was reversed and he got his blue badge so it all turned out nice in the end.

There will always be problems with any system; for every man like this, there will be another trying to take the proverbial so checks are required. Seems there was an oversight here and it was resolved in the end. A shame it had to come to that but these things happen.

 

[Stuey01]

It's a shocker for sure, thankfully resolved in the end.

And don't even get me started on people with children's car seats, but no child with them, using the parent and child spaces.
********s. These people have kids, they know a normal space can be impossibly narrow to manoeuvre an infant carrier in or out of the car. Selfish, inconsiderate ********s. (I accept that this is not in the same league as the original story, but in the spirit of a ranty thread...)

 

[CMAC]

It's a shocker for sure, thankfully resolved in the end.

And don't even get me started on people with children's car seats, but no child with them, using the parent and child spaces.
********s. These people have kids, they know a normal space can be impossibly narrow to manoeuvre an infant carrier in or out of the car. Selfish, inconsiderate ********s. (I accept that this is not in the same league as the original story, but in the spirit of a ranty thread...)

calm down dear!

Do you monitor them? sometimes they turn up to 'collect' mum and child from shops, ever thought about that?

However, I am in agreement with you when young chav boy or merchant banker turns up in his beemer with no kids or seats and takes these spaces or worse, the disabled space. Confronting them can lead to serious repercussions though so best left alone to wallow in their own guilt

 

[Stuey01]

calm down dear!

Do you monitor them? sometimes they turn up to 'collect' mum and child from shops, ever thought about that?

However, I am in agreement with you when young chav boy or merchant banker turns up in his beemer with no kids or seats and takes these spaces or worse, the disabled space. Confronting them can lead to serious repercussions though so best left alone to wallow in their own guilt

Karma will get them in the end. I'm not one for vigilante justice. :thup:

 

[19thagain]

My personal annoyance re Blue Badge is the stupid rule that does not allow me to move the car, parked on a blue badge, to pick up my disabled wife!

Situation is easy to understand, we park the car and my wife is still able to be slightly independent, so off she goes without my support but two minutes later she runs out of steam and I have to take the car to rescue her( this being a bad day)

If I move the car because she is not on board I risk a big fine and possible loss of badge so I have to take a taxi 500 yards down the road and take her back to the car.

I cannot drop her off at her desired destination and move the car 50 yards to a parking space and display the badge.

The answer by the people issuing the badges " get a wheel chair"

They don't understand that that will happen soon enough but not until forced upon us and that course of action will not be dictated to us by some sad person in his/her office.

Rant over!

 

[Blue in Munich]

My personal annoyance re Blue Badge is the stupid rule that does not allow me to move the car, parked on a blue badge, to pick up my disabled wife!

Situation is easy to understand, we park the car and my wife is still able to be slightly independent, so off she goes without my support but two minutes later she runs out of steam and I have to take the car to rescue her( this being a bad day)

If I move the car because she is not on board I risk a big fine and possible loss of badge so I have to take a taxi 500 yards down the road and take her back to the car.

I cannot drop her off at her desired destination and move the car 50 yards to a parking space and display the badge.

The answer by the people issuing the badges " get a wheel chair"

They don't understand that that will happen soon enough but not until forced upon us and that course of action will not be dictated to us by some sad person in his/her office.

Rant over!

I'm not sure you're right there 19thagain. My father-in-law had one for years but never had a driving licence, we moved the car to collect him from wherever he was and never had any issues. Try this link;

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consu...disabled/documents/digitalasset/dg_186198.pdf

First paragraph on page 8 seems to confirm that persons other than the badge holder can move & park the car in order to collect the badge holder, unless I'm misunderstanding something from your post.

As to the original post, that was an absolute disgrace. Whilst the abuse of the blue badge scheme should be addressed (my brother-in-law lost his but didn't seem to struggle playing 18 holes of golf so why he ever had one I don't know), it needs to be done with someone who has a degree of common sense, which obviously wasn't the case here.