I wasn’t aware that constitutionality is based on the ability to produce a tale of woe.

Some of the other comments about people not looking handicap’s using the spaces. You have to have a doc slip to get a permit. please give these people the benefit of doubt. Sure there are abusers but most are not.

Yes, handicapped spaces are often vacant. That’s the point, so there is a space to park.

The cost of this is small, we are talking about paving a few spaces. An expense to be sure but relative to the obligation required by other regulatory obligations, small. The cost to the outraged commenters? They walk about 20 feet.

People park where they should not park. It is very annoying. But people are taking advantage of the system in so many different ways. It has been happening virtually since the beginning of systems themselves. It is what it is. There is no sense it getting too worked up about it and, as some pointed out, you might not understand the full context of why that person is parking where they are.

I agree with everything Paul Brown says.

What you observe may have nothing to do with having a handicapped licensed or placard. Not only are there a lot of injuries and obstacles that you cannot see, but at least here in Florida, the law allows me, a (relatively) healthy person to park in a handicapped spot if I am on an errand for a person who does have a disability.

So if I am on my way to Olive Garden to pick up some food for my handicapped, elderly neighbor has ordered, I can park in the handicapped spot.

I don’t.

But I can.

I did not claim that ramps and special parking spaces were never used. There are not enough people in Mr. Brown’s position to justify the billions of dollars in cost. I do wish Mr. Brown and his child the very best.

My brother-in-law’s daughter was mowed down by a crazy guy and is incapacitated with spinal injury. She can’t leave her nursing home at all. I would rather see the money that is spent of ramps and parking spaces diverted to medical research on spinal cord injuries.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/one_year_later_hit-and-run_victim_holds_out_hope2007-09-04T10_00_00.html

Just like Benjamin observed, I’ve seen a LOT of people using placards who shouldn’t have them. One day I sat in front of Olive Garden and counted no less than 18 cars parking in the 6 handicapped slots and only three of them were people who were elderly or had an obvious disability. All the others walked/moved as if they were perfectly healthy. Too bad the OPPD won’t do anything about people who pull that crap.

The lady states “At the time I was still in a full sling, I was still on medication…”

So, she’s got one arm and high on goofballs, driving in a torrential downpour.

Moron.