Originally Posted by spring_chicken (Post 1169701)

Sorry, but it's very easy to get a handicap tag when you don't need it. There are unscrupulous doctors everywhere. I've heard softball players brag about it when everyone else is walking to their legally parked car. One even gave the name of 2 doctors who will help you get one.

Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 1169715)

Why is the doctor unscrupulous? What about unscrupulous patients trying to get a tag when they don't need it? Takes two to tango. Just another example of the "all about me" attitude some people possess. You see it on the roads, on the golf courses, at the squares, and elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 1169771)

IMO handicapped parking spaces should be for people who are paralyzed, confined to wheelchairs, legs missing, or on crutches. The other day I seen guy get out of new vette and walk briskly into the store. Heck, I couldn't get out of go cart and sprint to the store without stretching my back first. But, opinion are are like && everybody got them?

Originally Posted by spring_chicken (Post 1169732)

Why is the doctor unscrupolous? When he says to a patient "you need to say x, y, and z to me and I'll get you the tag, knowing that x, y, and z aren't true.
Not sure why you think one profession is free from dishonest practice, but it is just as full of is as any other.

Some people have a real classicism issue. I know you'd love to believe that anyone not wearing a hoody that puts an MD behind their name is pure as the driven snow. But it simply isn't true.

Originally Posted by BobnBev (Post 1171958)

I was at Winn-Dixie this morning at LSL. Watched a NY registered car pull into a handicapped space, on an angle, blocking the walkway. The bimbo, about 46, 5'11" wearing skin tight jeans and stiletto heel boots, looked like a streetwalker from NYC, put the HP placard on mirror and went bouncing into WD.

When she came out i said to her, "Nice parking job". She said she didn't want to hit the car in the next space. The car was nowhere near the line. I told her if she couldn't park in that big a space, she shouldn't be driving.



I'm not one to question whether one is disabled or not, but c'mon.......



I have pictures of this on my cell phone, including the NY reg, but I don't know how to post them on here.



Rant over.:police:

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1171962)

Good thing for you she didn't have a long gun and a short temper!

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 1169817)

And just WHAT do you think the doctor gets out of it???? The joy of filling out yet another form?????.. Sorry, but I'll take the MD over a hoodie any day.

Originally Posted by alwann (Post 1169350)

I wonder what the law or regulations say about how many disabled parking spaces must be allocated for public places.

More to the point, do age-qualified communities get more or the same number as every place else?

Surely there are not enough of them in The Villages. They're all gone whenever my spouse and I go out -- and this has been the case even before the seasonal people arrived.

Spouse suffered a foot injury and has been hobbled for a few months. Before this happened, I'd never noticed the shortage of disabled parking spots. Heck, it seems only two are allocated in the squares. The rest of them are way back behind buildings some where and not convenient, even if you can find an empty one. We make do, but it's still frustrating.