Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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What a shame about the theft of your placard. You have to have eyes in the back of your head now a days. I may be with you in that I notice things about handicapped parking spots that don't add up but to ever make a comment to the person is out of line. You never know what the real story is and truly it's not your business. Take the time & observational powers you have and use it for the force of good instead of evil. Give someone a helping hand or hold a door for someone or give somebody a kind word. I'm almost 60 and I was raised to respect everyone as if they were my Mom or Dad...best lesson I ever learned.
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I've signed hundreds if not more than a thousand of these in the last 30 years. You cannot tell what the driver's handicap is with a glance. Most are for respiratory or cardiac conditions that preclude the patient from walking 200 feet. Many are also temporary after surgery. Heck, I had emergency neurosurgery on my neck 5 days ago and qualify---I can even sign my own, but you wouldn't be able to tell from looking at me.
My best advice is to be happy YOU don't need one and not worry about what your neighbor's reason is, and let the very few number of scammers live with their own conscience. As far as the thief goes, he/she should have a reserved spot at the furthest end of any parking lot from now on. |
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dbussone, I am so sorry if you took my post the wrong way. I was merely replying to someone else about obtaining 2 placards and was not referring to you or your wife in any way.
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Apology accepted. Please excuse me as well NYGUY.
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That one is NEVER enforced.
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Look, no one is denying a handicap person a little help regarding parking. I open doors for more old people, and women (heck, even men) than probably more than just about anyone. But it is out of control. When I was growing up, there were always available handicap spots anywhere you went. Now we have the first two rows in every parking lot at every business (a bit of exaggeration, maybe) full for most of the day. Honestly, I watch cars and carts circling Walmart and the town squares looking for an available handicap space. Are you telling me, all of a sudden, this country has a handicap epidemic? I could get a handicap placard just by telling my doctor my feet hurt when I walk. I know people who have done this. I'm sure many if not most do not abuse this system, but something has happened in this country over the last few decades to require the continuously growing handicap spaces at parking lots.
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Theirs a guy with a little gray sports car that parks in the handicap spot at the sports pool and then goes in and play's volley ball for two hours, That takes balls.
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Whoa! Karma can be a bi**h to the person whose Wheaties were pi**ed in and felt the need to diss people using H/C placards. God forbid that person ever need to use one.
We carry one in our car for my mother-in-law; when I'm driving, I'll let her and my wife out at the front door and drive to the "lower 40" to park. When my wife (with a new knee) drives her Mom somewhere, they will use the placard. I'm usually pretty low-key about most things, but if I see a person parking in a H/C space with no license or placard, I'll call them out; that is one of my few pet peeves. |
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If your wife is truly deserving then that is what these spaces are for and she deserves to park there. HSMV 83039 - REV. 08/15 7. Severe limitation in a person's ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition. My father that has passed now was disabled with a stroke and we could never park close but had to drive up and let him get out in a wheelchair and then go park, often while he waited alone because lazy jerks that were perfectly able to walk had taken all the handicap spots already. While some conditions are more obvious than others we all know these permits are abused and used improperly just like any other benefit like disability for example. It is a pathetic shame that there is no enforcement on this problem just like many other problems where people cheat and are dishonest. When people get out of a car and do a fifty yard dash to the store they darn well do not need a handicapped permit and it is clear to anyone that sees them. It is pretty much the same scenario out on the golf courses too with the handicap placards but I could care less about those that cheat out there. A lot of people should read the last part of number 2 shown below. HSMV 83039 - REV. 08/15 2. Inability to walk without the use of or assistance from a brace, cane, crutch, prosthetic device, or other assistive device, or without assistance of another person. If the assistive device significantly restores the person's ability to walk to the extent that the person can walk without severe limitation, the person is not eligible for the exemption parking permit.
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No, just one. Generally about a foot across and white.
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Of course I have no intention of getting a handicapped placard, that was pure hyperbole. The point of my post was that no one, not even me, can tell if a person meets criteria form a distant glance, so why assume they are a fraud? I have found most requests for a handicapped parking permit are legitimate, and most that are not are just running it up the flagpole to see if I salute it. They don't get one anyway. Even though I tend to lean conservative, I would rather waste a few dollars on the food stamp frauds than have a child go hungry, just as I would rather someone scam a handicapped permit than have some 90 year old break a hip walking too far. The alternative to the current system is to take the permission out of the hands of the patient's personal physician and give it to some government bureaucrat with 40,000 pages of regulation to follow. This would cost billions, delay the process by months, and probably be associated with a measurable body count. No thank you. Now here's a food for thought question: If you have an identical house to your neighbor and he is paying less property tax than you, do you go to the assessor's office and argue why your tax should be less based on the value of YOUR property, or do you complain that your neighbor is paying less than you? No criticism or offense intended, but it does go to the point of worrying about what the other guy is getting. |
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