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Old 09-11-2015, 06:45 PM
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I think that part of the skepticism that people have over the use of handicap parking is not the concern that some physician has inappropriately diagnosed a patient, but rather that the handicap parking is being used by someone other than the handicapped individual.

For instance, a car with a handicap license plate is driven to a parking lot by the spouse/child/friend of the handicapped person and is parked in a handicap parking space. The actual handicapped person is not even in the car, or remains in the car while an able-bodied person goes to shop. This abuse of the system is hard to police.
But since it's pretty much agreed that you can't tell a handicap just by looking, you have no way of knowing if that's even happening. And how would you even know that a person in the car is holding the spot for a non handicapped person to go shopping?

Do some people look for ways to get irritated or feel cheated?
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