re: Handicapped parking spots...are they abused?

Majority of my observations seem to be abusing the system

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I lift, BJJ, collect pokemon cards and have decent cardio.

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Pull guard on a 300 lb WIC recipient Snorlax with a fresh weave and you'll be on the receiving end of a Rampage Jackson style powerbomb. Bench press your way out of that.

Bottom line people are lazy. There are people who actually need them, but what passes as "disabled" these days is laughable so as for as I am concerned, all I need is a place to park where my lift goes down. If I go to a grocery store for example, I rather park towards the back, I can get through the parking lot faster than most people, but if you park in a spot that has blue hash marks in the space thats for ramp vans, people don't pay attention to that shite. And to be fair there isn't much there to inform people that the spot is for ramp vans.

So honestly, if someone has to park there because they don't want to walk another what? 20 feet? They should feel bad for themselves. If you have to used one of those carts that is understandable, but if you can walk round the store to do your shopping then you shouldn't have a handicap parking tag, but between all the temporary disabled tags and the tags issued to people that fall in the gray area you just have to kind of figure out your own way of doing shite.

By my own estimates, maybe 15%. I've seen young able bodied people hop out of nice cars and walk in without issue and my 81 year old dad who needs a shopping cart to hold himself upright refuses to use them so others will have them available.

Problem is you can't tell who is a apparently healthy person on the heart transplant list that gets winded walking the fifty feet to the door and who is a fat slob with a counterfeit hang tag or even a legit one that is being misused.

A shopping cart IS a walker substitute for us older folk.


The thresh hold test for handicapped spot utilization at HEB, is when you get 3 consecutive requests to assist getting your groceries to the car.

Challenging handicapped status can be a big disaster . Being handicapped is real and comes in many forms, not all of which require a cane or walker. The abusers know what they are doing and you are not going to correct s..itty people

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dk but i see a lot of fat minorities using them that seem to not really be disabled

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Being fat and a minority IS a disability…………………I guess.

All I know is it shows how fricking lazy people are when they use the handicap spot to drop their kids off at my kids daycare when every other spot is open.

Dunno what those POSs will do with the extra 18 feet of walking time they saved.

Honestly I equate people abusing handicap spaces with the further devolution of the human race. There's a few people to blame for it though. It's not just the people who park in them. It's also the stores who have virtue signaled by making 10-12 handicap spaces on the entire front row of the parking lot.

The entire concept is fricked up. In a perfect world, the cops would ask you about your hangtag, why you have it, where you got it, what you need it for. And if there isn't a valid reason for it, write you a ticket for $2000+.