re: The over issuing of handi cap parking tags

I am in a walking boot right now and my doctor offered to give me one. I declined.
Though I flew the other day and having a cane allowed me to skip into the priority line before TSA. To the point that i may just fly with a cane from now on. Lol.

I broke my ankle my sophomore year at LSU LSU police kept auto renewing my parking tag allowing me to park on campus until I graduated. Was great

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St. Martinville. I think 85% of the population has them

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Why are all of the handicap people moving to St. Martinville?

I park far away from other cars if I can. Walkin' a bit doesn't bother me. What does is the way people back in/out of spots now.

Thanks, and goodbye. That's weak as shite.

I understand parking sucks, and you want to take advantage of what you can, but that's low. People like you led to a situation like this:

Target near my place. I'm walking out, see a chick in a vehicle parked in the handicapped parking, no tags.

While I'm walking, there is no shite someone that is actually handicapped walking with a walker, directly in front of this woman that was parked in the (h). The woman in the walker had to park farther away because of this genius.

I pointed (no knife hand) to the oxygen thief in the car, and pointed at the actual handicapped person trucking it because this oxygen their took her spot.

Go to the Travel board and read about all the people that request wheelchairs to board on SWA and then happily walk off the plane at the destination.

They’ll give you one with your script for “crazy pills” it’s automatic just like the check.

I think most people who have actually been issued one for real reasons try not to use them. We have one in every vehicle because my 84 year old dad and we almost never us a handicapped space. I usually let him out at the door and park my big assed truck as far away as practical....I need the exercise and I seldom get blocked in (GMC 3500 long bed crew cab - I can almost do a u turn in the walmart parking lot - almost). If the parking lot is crowded and it would block the flow of traffic to let him out at the door we will use one but if not I just pull up to the door, he gets out, I get his walker out and away he goes. The spots ought to be used by people who need them but are still driving...when alone they really need them.

All that being said I seldom see all of them being used...most of the time they are about half empty. I notice lots of cars with them parked every where but the handicapped spots. I would bet that most of the people using them are people like us who have one for a family member and they are using them whether that person is with them or not.

I went through the car wash yesterday and noticed the Scat Pack Charger in front of me had a handicapped plate but was also "Military Honor". I had to look that up but if you are 50% disabled, you can get that plate. He was vacuuming his car and moving around pretty good. Didnt seem disabled in the way you'd normally think.

Over the years ive known a few guys that really worked the system to get disabled status. They were jumping on the wagon of any class action lawsuit that remotely touched them. One of them spends a large part of his life in the gym and it's not rehab. He's a bold lib.

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I always assumed that not prosecuting handicap parking offenders is a form of reparations.

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So we should have picked our own cotton? Asking for a friend ...