General Chat

I have been replying to ignorant comments about the motability car/blue badge system for the past couple of hours.

According to some of the respondents a disability car should only be a 3 wheeled small old fashioned type. The only person allowed to drive the car should be the badge holder/owner of the car unless....wait for it......they have lost limbs!!!

The ignorance of the people is astounding! I did suggest to that one idiot that he might like to recall his comments when a blind driver hits his car or someone behind the wheel has an epi fit or heart attack and maims him. After all he deems these people FIT to drive.

Why can't some people understand that not all disabilities are immediately obvious.

Of course there are abuses, we all know that but FGS these morons are tarring everyone with the same brush.

Rant Over

Sue

rant away Sue

Rise above it Sue. You said it They are ignorant of the facts of the disabled. Lets hope your post goes some way to educating them.

Regards

Vera

**sticks cotton wool in ears **

Continue :-D

Where are these comments? Let me at 'em! :-(

AOL :-0 :-0 :-0

Bl**dy Morons :-(
Hazelx

*backs away slowly* does not touch AOL *spit* with a bargepole.

Your right you cant just look at someone and deem wether they are fit or disabled, they will soon change there tune if it happens to someone they know.
I find if ive dared to wear makeup and im about to park in the disabled bay, i can feel others by there cars looking, so out comes the stick or wheelchare which ever i need and the fuss is over, i feel ill enough witout wanting to look it.

All I can say is that they should thank their lucky stars they do not need one. I have one and wish I did not need it as I am sure all Blue Badge Holders are the same.

There is no accounting for ignorance. And I am sure that they have done away with those 3 wheeled disability cars now anyway.

I find it hard to believe that people can be so cruel. I am aware that occasionally some people do abuse systems, in fact someone who was in my family by marriage, did this and I made damm sure that I took photos etc and sent them in. The person is no longer in the family thank God!

Hope this isnt too irrelevant, but I fear the ignorance of the government (and the last one) regarding disability. I am hearing time and again of people without limbs being refused DLA (therefore blue badges and everything else that goes with it), because they use prosthetic limbs, therefore can walk.

What is the difference between a prosthetic leg and a walking stick. If you have to use a walking stick to enable you to walk, you get DLA (and rightly so, not complaining about that), but if you need to use a prosthetic leg to enable you to walk you are deemed no longer disabled, even though you can't walk without it, (and probably still need a walking stick).

As for the original point in question, there's no accounting for ignorance, and lack of understanding that disability is not exclusive to people in wheelchairs.

One of these twerps reckons the choice of car should be a Ka or Fiesta, try getting a wheelchair into one of those :-( I couldn't even get my crutch in the front!

Just talking with a friend who said 'they are winding you up', well they succeeded, sadly the majority of replies seem to be in earnest.

I think the irony of my reply to one that 'we used to hide the disabled away in hospitals too, good eh?' went right over their head, even though I added YOU IDIOT!.

On my FB page (basic information) I have 'crips rule so remember that when you cross me' that is so appropriate today

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Edit: yep TW you are right about prosthetic limbs, how damn ridiculous.

Supercrutch, these people on AOL are probably the morons who park in disabled bays/mother & baby bays 'cos they don't see why they should walk further than necessary!!!!

Weren't the old 'disabled' cars considered too dangerous?

My daughter studied geography/geology at uni. Not long after they started, they went on a field trip to Wales. James was allocated a top bunk - no-one had realised he had a prosthetic leg!!

When they all piled into a small car - James would remove his leg and place it on the back shelf
He has a blue badge, but only used it in times of emergency - like when they they couldn't get a 'normal' parking space near the pub



maggie

line em up and shoot em....tis the only way



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Hi Maggie,

I was disgusted at some of the comments today, a few actually inferring that the disabled shouldn't be in normal society. That really pushed my buttons.

I expect James is like the majority of us we laugh at our problems (as much as we can), it's a coping mechanism. My friends all take the mick and I much prefer it that way.

One site I am on about people abusing disabled parking spaces there is a quote by a member:

DISABILITY IS FOR LIFE NOT FOR PARKING

Some folks just cannot get it! It's not exactly a life choice is it? They seem to think we got ourselves a disability so we could have a car and a blue badge.

I like the stickers 'thanks for taking my parking space - would you like my disability too?'

Sue

Hi Sue,
Many people just don't realise (or want to realise) that one small slip could leave them disabled!!
This may be because of genetics, trauma at birth, a plethora of things /syndromes/illnesses cascading upon a person through their life, like MS, or an accident., or even old age.

They certainly seem to lack empathy.

Don't they realise that one small accident in their 'oh so safe and cosy' car could lead to a disability? Getting older results in weakness and disability, and, to be honest, being overweight from the age of 16 could lead to a person being essentially disabled by the time they're 40.

Would they then like to be shunned in 'normal - there's a joke - society?

Peoples selfishness, lack of empathy and imagination beggars belief.

These are the people who should be locked away from 'normal' society. - they're too thick for the majority to put up with!!!

I am also a blue badge holder and my biggest gripe is Tescos staff thinking they have the right to park in disabled bays. I was told by one manager in the Cotswolds that its a perk of the job. Nowadays anyone who has a four wheel drive, a works van or is just plain ignorant parks in the bays and no one dares tell them not to. Lidls and Waitrose employ parking attendants so why can't all big supermarkets.

Do you lot have the same sticker we have here in Oz. As well as the permit there is another sticker which reads, "Check out the permit, not the driver" or words to that effect.

This alerts people to the fact that the disability might not be obvious.

And yes we do have abuses of the system. Not everyone follows the rules.