Are you the sort of person when you see something wrong. say someone parking in the handicap spot who?

Question

obviously isnt handicapped, say or do something about it....or do you figure its not your business and let someone else take care of it or worry about it? Recently while out shopping I seen every handicap spot filled with either a sports car(the low 2 seater type...not frequented by the usual handicap person)(not to mention no sticker in the window), junk(garbage containers etc), or blocked in some way. I was wondering what i could do to change this. I mean do you call the police, inform the store that owns that parking lot or what? I wanted to do something but didnt know what. Any ideas?

meant to say that i visited several different stores so seen this in different places...not just at one store.

isnt the whole point of having a disabled sticker is to display it so traffic police etc can see it?

Answer 1

Oh yes..i understand what your saying...i usually say something to the car owner if the person is still there, or if not i write something on a piece of paper and stick it under the wiper..That goes for people who parked their car in handicap spot or just doesn't know how to park.... ^^ there is a website i forgot what its called..but it sells stickers that says "I park like an idiot"...so you just stick it on the troubling car!LOL....

Answer 2

Approach the person, and politely say, "I noticed you are parking in a handicap spot. But you don't seem to have a disability.... Perhaps I can help you."

Then you whip out a baseball bat and do some kneecap renovation.

(I'm sure someone will give me thumbs down for that... Just joking obviously!...)

Seriously though, make sure the person is really parked there illegally first. (Better make sure first; did you see that Jim Carrey movie Me, Myself & Irene?)

Store owners won't do anything. (The offending person is a paying customer, after all.) Police think they have better things to do, and would arrive too late anyway. Best bet is to leave a note under the windshield... and let the air out of the tires... Or give their nice sports car a new custom bit of artwork with your keys...

On a more gentle note, here's something I have done before that works well, if you don't mind paying a few dollars... I did this for people who can't use their turn signals, but it works for your situation too:

Have some stickers made up (like bumper stickers) that say something like: "Disabled - I don't have a brain" or something, and stick them on the car. Make sure the glue sticks well, so they have to scrape it off.

Answer 3

I would call the police, alert the store managers and tell them I have called the police!!! I would fax the local paper!!! And I would draw a nice handicap sign on the side window in white wax-crayon --- it comes off, no harm done, but it let's them know they've been caught!!! and they'll have to go right home to wash it off or be embarrassed all day !!! Also, if they have a window or tag sticker and drive a sports car -- well they may have a handicap you cant see !!! Bending over to get in a car may not be their affiction, could be bad heart or many other things. I look fine and people look at me funny sometimes, but I have spinal injury and it doesnt show -- only I can FEEL THE PAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

If they have a handicap parking permit, I figure they have a reason to have one. Not all handicaps are instantly visible. It is also possible that handicap people enjoy sports cars too. Do not judge a book by its cover.

If it really bothers you, you can inform the store if they own it. Police will not ticket people in parking lots unless asked by the store that owns the parking lot. It is private property.

Answer 5

At an airport, I observed a demonstration asserting that handicapped persons ought to park interior the lot nearest to the terminal on the expenses many times charged for persons parking in a extra distant lot. for this reason, it appears that evidently that the handicapped at the instant are not entitled to loose parking. besides the undeniable fact that, if the handicapped persons ought to pay extra to park interior the handicapped areas interior the lot than non-handicapped persons ought to pay to park, that would seem discriminatory.

Answer 6

I think you should not worry about what you can not control. I comend your honor but since you do not know those in the parking spots you can not for sure know if they are handicap and just do not have a sticker. You really should not say anything..

If the spot is blocked then by all means say something .

Answer 7

I actually do this, regularly, but it once turned into a soap opera.

Pulled into a handicapped space (yes, I am handicapped and have a valid permit) at the Wal-Mart in downtown Englewood, CO, when a guy pulled into the striped zone next to it. (In case anyone truly doesn't realize this, the striped zone gives wheelchair lifts a place to come down.)

Asked him to move his car. He said no.

Told him he was parked illegally. He said there was no sign directly in front of the space.

Told him it wasn't a space. He turned and said, "Look, that's where I'm parked, I'm not moving, and if I didn't work here, I'd tell you what I really think of you."

Turns out he was a greeter at this Wal-Mart.

I went inside, demanded to see the manager. This being 8:00 on a Saturday night, the "manager" was some pimply-faced 19-year-old who wasn't sure what to do when confronted with a situation more complex than "this rang up for 10 cents more than the price on the sign." So, I walked outside and picked up the phone to call the cops. When he saw me do this, he moved his car.

I wrote a letter to the store manager. No response. But every time I went into Wal-Mart, this same greeter would turn his back when I walked in, then flip me off as I passed by.

All this was merely a nuisance until one night, when my then-girlfriend and I were in a grocery-store parking lot several blocks away from the Wal-Mart. We were walking toward the grocery store when out of nowhere, and I mean literally out of nowhere, the greeter jumped out from behind a parked car, grabbed the shopping cart, and leaned over toward us with a lecherous grin and said, "I'm parked in a handicapped spot, I'm not handicapped, and there's not a f...... thing you can do about it." He then proceeded to follow us - at a distance - around the store, and he would flip me off every time I turned to look at him.

At this point, I went to the cops and filed a harrassment report. Since all I knew about the guy was "his name is Charles and he's a greeter at Wal-Mart" ... the cops showed up there during his shift to talk to him.

You'd think this would get his manager's attention. I actually called the manager again to follow up and got chewed out for sending the cops to the store because "this didn't happen on Wal-Mart property, you should have left Wal-Mart out of it." He also refused to discipline the guy for that reason.

At this point, I sent a followup letter to the regional manager, copying both the store manager and the folks in Bentonville. I did get a callback from the regional manager and expressed my opinion that while the latest incident didn't happen on Wal-Mart property, the situation had *started* on Wal-Mart property and was due to the fact that a Wal-Mart employee, in his capacity as an employee, told me what to go do with myself.

He apologized, assured me that action would be taken, and asked if I could be compensated in any way. I asked for a gift card to help defray the cost of school supplies for my girlfriend's son.

I do know that the greeter got spoken to, because that was the end of his antics. But when I called Bentonville about a month later, they were confused. They had actually called the store manager and were told that he had offered me a gift card, but I refused. I assured them that this was not correct.

A week later, I got my gift card. For ten dollars.

And if anyone in Bentonville happens to be reading, this is why I don't shop at Wal-Mart anymore. Not only because you refused to discipline an employee who parked illegally in a handicapped spot, and not only because you shrugged your shoulders when he started stalking me, and not only because it somehow became *my* fault when the cops showed up to talk to him ... but because you thought $10 was enough to buy back my loyalty in the face of all that.

Answer 8

Since it is impossible to tell by looking I usually say nothing
However if they do not have a handicap sticker/placard or plate I do report them

Answer 9

If it is something you see consistently I suppose you could report it. You may have to talk to the store manager first though, after all it is not public land unless the spots are along the street.

Answer 10

i have reported them to store security and they come fix them up announce their car number over the store loudspeaker and says that they are parked in a handicap space and if i see any one parking i usually ask them if they are handicapped and i tell them not to park there