[jambutty]

Can any of the contributors to this thread honestly and truthfully state that at some time during this year, when they spotted a car parked in a disabled bay and not displaying the Blue Badge, they went up to the driver and reminded him/her that they were parked in a parking bay reserved for Blue Badge holders? I’ll warrant that there is nary a one.

I have and still do and for my troubles I have been told to go and occupy a spot in the nearest cemetery, been verbally abused, been physically threatened, had my foot run over when the clown decided to reverse and got clouted in the face with the door being opened with force. But in the main I got a sheepish grin usually accompanied with “I’ll only be a minute”, with the odd “I’ve left it at home”. However no one has ever driven the car away right away to vacate the bay for a genuine user.

Have any of those same contributors having seen a non-disabled person leap out of a car leaving the disabled person behind to go into the store/shop, approached them to acquaint them with the Blue Badge rules? No! I thought not.

Yet these same contributors feel qualified to pontificate with a holier than thou attitude about the use and misuse of the Blue Badge scheme. They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

Before I got my Blue Badge it never entered my head to check if the disabled bays were being put to the correct use. I just assumed that people would honour the disabled logo and not park there.

If I ever saw a non disabled person get out of a car parked in a disabled bay and displaying the Blue Badge I assumed that they were doing the shopping for the disabled person either in the car or left at home.

All this bruhaha smacks of jealousy to me.