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Old 11-01-2011, 06:55 PM
 
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Placards and license plates on:

low lying sports cars - corvettes, vipers, porsche, etc
lifted trucks, jeeps and other off-road vehicles


If you can get in one of these, shouldn't there be a restriction on issuing a handicap placard or plate?

I mean...driving is a privilege, not a right.

i love it when a hoss climbs out of a sports car, rolls into a store and hops on a motorized cart....how about those with real injuries, disabilities or the elderly?
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Old 11-01-2011, 07:40 PM
 
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Originally Posted by davehalo View Post
Placards and license plates on:

low lying sports cars - corvettes, vipers, porsche, etc
lifted trucks, jeeps and other off-road vehicles


If you can get in one of these, shouldn't there be a restriction on issuing a handicap placard or plate?

I mean...driving is a privilege, not a right.

i love it when a hoss climbs out of a sports car, rolls into a store and hops on a motorized cart....how about those with real injuries, disabilities or the elderly?
Well they must have had one of their "good days" that day when they hopped out of the MR2. Such BS. It seems a lot of these "handicaps" only flare up when they're going shopping. They don't seem to stop them from doing anything else they want.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Sarasota FL
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There's fraud and abuse all over the place. I recently saw a guy in a new Corvette park in a handicap space. I looked at the car to see the blue wheel chair tag hanging from the rear view mirror and it was manual transmission. I watched him walk in a normal way to the store entrance. Couldn't imagine his health condition but I guess you can get a 'handicap parking' tag for any dumb excuse reason. He probably wanted one because the parking spaces are double wide and his Vette wouldn't get door dings.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:08 PM
 
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Placards and license plates on:

low lying sports cars - corvettes, vipers, porsche, etc
lifted trucks, jeeps and other off-road vehicles


If you can get in one of these, shouldn't there be a restriction on issuing a handicap placard or plate?

I mean...driving is a privilege, not a right.

i love it when a hoss climbs out of a sports car, rolls into a store and hops on a motorized cart....how about those with real injuries, disabilities or the elderly?
I would never park in a handicap spot and I'm not concerned by those who do, but I have to ask
...how long have you been a physician?
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:39 PM
 
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Disabled people aren't exempt from having good-quality products. I wonder if people make the same stupid judgments when they see me using an Apple computer. Not all of us are charity cases, thanks.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:41 PM
 
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There's fraud and abuse all over the place. I recently saw a guy in a new Corvette park in a handicap space. I looked at the car to see the blue wheel chair tag hanging from the rear view mirror and it was manual transmission. I watched him walk in a normal way to the store entrance. Couldn't imagine his health condition but I guess you can get a 'handicap parking' tag for any dumb excuse reason. He probably wanted one because the parking spaces are double wide and his Vette wouldn't get door dings.
If he has a blue tag he's either been qualified as disabled by doctors and the DMV or he's using someone else's tag. No way you can really tell without looking at his license and at that point it's up to you if you want to be that invasive or if you want to move on and have a life.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:42 PM
 
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Well they must have had one of their "good days" that day when they hopped out of the MR2. Such BS. It seems a lot of these "handicaps" only flare up when they're going shopping. They don't seem to stop them from doing anything else they want.
Cause you follow all disabled people around everywhere all the time so you obviously know what every disabled person's day is like.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:45 PM
 
Location: southern california
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lawyers created this PC for the handicapped and disabled.
too many lawyers and not nuf parking spaces.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:46 PM
 
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lawyers created this PC for the handicapped and disabled.
too many lawyers and not nuf parking spaces.
Handicap spots aren't about being PC. They're about the logistics of getting from Point A to Point B with a disability.

Maybe people should research a little before they start the next hate-on-the-disabled CD thread.
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Old 11-01-2011, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Sarasota FL
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If you whine, cry, give a good sob story, just about any doctor will sign his name for a 'handicap' parking space permit for ANY ailment that you complain about.
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