Disabilities are not always visible. What about people who have stimulus sensitive seizures? Do you want them having to walk further that they can safely walk and thus fall in a car park in a drop seizure and risking fracturing a hip, or worse, being run over by a car, because you couldn't see they were disabled when they got out of the car? Your disability, or mine (I am level 3 disability) doesn't give us the right to judge others' disabilities as more or less deserving of a disability car park sticker. I'd prefer my visible disability to many other people's invisible disabilities. Edited 20-Apr-23 10:17am

This is SO bloody annoying. Im a Disability Support Worker and the person I supports needs a wheelchair when out in public. I find it so hard to find Disability Parking and when you see someone in a car with the Disability Card and then that person gets out of the car and walks away without any limp or any Disability issue that they may or may not have really annoys me.

Horrible

I don't like it when people think they can get away with it

I would never do it but have to say at our local super market there are about 4 special parks for Disabled Parking and it is VERY RARE to ever see ANY car in any of these special parks. The temptation is too great for some not just to use them as they are seen empty +90% of the time.Edited 17-Oct-22 11:28am

I am in the same situation. People can be incredibly thick skinned. So unnecessary.

I cannot stand Selfish mums with four wheel drive park in the disabled car park at the schools to drop of their kids while I had to park far and struggle to walk to drop off my child . While they are watching me walking. Also I am seeing more people with mobility scooter parking and taking up the whole disabled car park or driving on the main road and don't know how to use the road rules because I had to do a road test to get my scooter and we where informed we cannot park in the disabled car park its not want it made for. Look on eBay or gumtree it is easy just to buy a second hand scooter.

Having parked in disabled carpark and getting abused because I am mobile is bs as well. I remember his person quickly shut up when they saw me get a wheelchair out of boot and put my mum in it. Some people judge too quickly. What I have a issue is these 'parents with prams' carparks. There are way to many of them and hardly any disabled carparks.

Couldn't you just spit! I hate it when that occurs, and worse yet, there is not usually anyone there to check it. I think that when it happens, we should take a photo that clearly shows the car, the registration and the disabled bay, and forward to the police. If we all do it often enough, the police will either get sick and tired of chasing it up, or use it for a revenue raiser. Either way, we need to do something to stop this!

maximum fines please

boogers on the doorknobs for folks that take handicap spots when they ain't handicapped,,, ;-)) Edited 17-Oct-22 12:55pm

I will not even start on this. Same With Veterans.

I got booked for parking in disabled spot because I didnt have a disabled parking permit in a hire vehicle. However my passengers were 86 and 75 year olds both with wheelie walkers so I was furious that it could not be waived.

I came out of my local shopping center and there was a policeman writing a ticket for a car parked in the disabled spot so I went up to him and accused him of being a pencil neck coppa, he ignored me and wrote another ticket for the bald tyres, after a few more insults and a few more tickets I got on my push bike and left,it wasn't my car

DON'T get me started on this one. It's so inhumane. Especially when someone is driving a car belonging to a handicapped person, so they have the placard, but they park in the disabled parking and get out and bounce in the store, while someone further out who couldn't find that disabled parking available are struggling. I will say something, and I will call the authorities. I have no tolerance for vagrant inconsideration and lawbreaking on top of that. I'm disabled and my husband is disabled and dying, so this subject hits all too close to home for me. US, I should say. Live by the popular saying, "Kindness begins with me". Take it a step further and say, "decency begins with ME"!!!!!!!!!!

Selfishness is alive and well in my suburban suburb too. Our shopping centre carpark has provided a fair number of invalid spaces but there are always a fair number of parkers who don't look like invalids to my cynical eyes.

In Gosford NSW...a doctor who was probably late for work at the surgery parked in a disabled car space....there is wonderful security camera footage of a man in a wheelchair very carefully removing all the air from all his tyres...absolute magic....there should be MASSIVE fines for this behaviour....

I agree as I am on crouches because of my hips I get frustrated at the amount of people who use the disabled parks. We pay for those parks.