Hrmmm

[telophase]

You know, I *know* people who need handicapped parking who don't "look handicapped" because they have non-obvious conditions.

Which is why, young sir, I do not confront you and your friend when you are walking back to your SUV parked in the handicapped spot in front of my parking place. You most definitely do not *appear* to need it, but I know appearances can be deceiving so I am giving you the benefit of the doubt.

At least you are not jogging to class like the previous young gentleman who parked in that spot. I have to admit that while I have a few doubts about whether that hang tag on your mirror is yours by right, I have far, far more doubts about his.

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[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

In some states, the hangtag has a serial number and an 800 number you can use if you think it might be being used wrongly.

Those tags are hard to get....

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If I see him parked there again, I may do that. Today he was walking up behind me - I noticed because he remote-unlocked his car at the exact same moment I remote-unlocked mine, giving me the weird sense that I unlocked two cars at once. So I saw him walking up as I was standing there, locking and unlocking my car in an attempt to repeat it. XD

Because I also know someone who took advantage of a hang tag she had when she didn't need it herself (her daughter was temporarily disabled in a car accident) to park in those spots (until our boss stopped it - this was at a former job), I'm assuming that the previous student and perhaps this one have relatives with disabilities and they're taking advantage of it.

[tingirl.livejournal.com]

I suppose- trying to be generous- they may have relatives or friends who need it, and who they transport. My three primary drivers all have a hang tag in their vehicle, and if you saw any of them bopping *out* of the vehicle on the way to get me they'd look pretty undeserving. If you saw them carting me back in, though, it would all make sense.

Or maybe they're just turds and need their shoes caltropped!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yesterday's guy was on his way back from one of the academic buildings with an equally-abled-seeming companion, although you're right in that it's possible he may have delivered a friend or family member to the building.

The guy from last year is, I think, solidly on the "turd" side as I saw him park in that spot multiple times with no companion in evidence, although I never quite got the guts to report him and merely confined myself to giving him dirty glances he probably never saw.