A long time ago, there was a similar thread. I posted my layman's criteria for HC placard: on crutches, in a wheelchair, or dragging an oxygen tank behind. I was skewered. Let's face it. In the old days, that is who the HC parking spaces were meant for. Now, if your feet hurt when you walk, you get a HC placard. If you're 100# overweight, and your knees hurt, you get a HC placard. If you tell your doctor your back really hurts when you walk, you get a HC placard. That's why there aren't empty HC parking spaces! I have watched men play basketball after parking with a HC placard. I have watched people carrying and loading a large cooler full of ice into the back of a truck(with the HC placard) parked in a HC slot. Sure there are illnesses that are "invisible", and some may require a HC placard. But there is soooo much fraud in the system. At the rate we are going, Walmart is going to start marking the two remaining parking spaces for "anyone". All the unmarked spaces will be HC only.
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