Death by Parking

Why would anyone be arguing over disabled parking? There seems to be a huge amount of disabled parking at supermarkets and most of them empty.

Plus can't you park pretty much anywhere if you have a disabled badge.:thinking:

Pretty sad someone has died over a petty argument.
 
surfg1mp said:
Why would anyone be arguing over disabled parking? There seems to be a huge amount of disabled parking at supermarkets and most of them empty.

Plus can't you park pretty much anywhere if you have a disabled badge.:thinking:

Pretty sad someone has died over a petty argument.
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unless it was one of those morons that park in disabled without actually being disabled.

either way not worth dying for.
 
To be honest I am surprised it has not happened before or even more often.

Some blue badge holders seem to think that they have a divine right to be "at the front" of even the the disabled bays that string out well away from front entrances to stores. In many cases, for some blue badge holders, its not about the "distance" aspect but the wider bays that assist many with physical difficulties to get in and out of their vehicles. (Before anyone calls me insensitive I have a blue badge myself but only use it on days when I am not well enough to walk very far).

Then you get the pompious (mostly older) men who have accosted me demanding to know why I have a blue badge when they do not! And so it goes on.

This is a truly sad story of which we know very little about the causalities of it, at this time. At the moment I have that dread feeling that it will be something really trivial (as is often the case) and thus 2 lives will be ruined over a sodding car parking space. Tragic to the end.

Steve
 
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Very sad but a sign of the times. People are not as considerate as they once were.

Mind you parking arguments seem pretty frequent whether disabled or not.

Pay and display has also played its part.

For this to happen over a parking place........... lost for words!
 
Just another facet of the "i'm alright Jack" attitude that affects modern society

Not that surprised really, silly old buggers probably already wound up having read the Daily Mail
 
tijuana taxi said:
Just another facet of the "i'm alright Jack" attitude that affects modern society

Not that surprised really, silly old buggers probably already wound up having read the Daily Mail
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Ahh the intellectuals "Newspaper of choice" NOT!!!!
 
Some of those news stories still do not make it clear what really went on, are we really sure it had something to do with the disabled parking bay? Those news items don't say anthing like a non-disabled person parked in a disabled bay and a disabled person told him off, and a fight broken out, or anything like that. It don't even mention who's supposed to be disabled apart from BBC saying the victim had beaten cancer. It don't make clear which one is the driver and if the driver have Blue Badage or not, nor do it say anything about if both are disabled and were fighting for a space.
 
Major Eazy said:
Some of those news stories still do not make it clear what really went on, are we really sure it had something to do with the disabled parking bay? Those news items don't say anthing like a non-disabled person parked in a disabled bay and a disabled person told him off, and a fight broken out, or anything like that. It don't even mention who's supposed to be disabled apart from BBC saying the victim had beaten cancer. It don't make clear which one is the driver and if the driver have Blue Badage or not, nor do it say anything about if both are disabled and were fighting for a space.
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As said in my response we don't know the causalities of the case.

Supposition elicits ideas but not facts.

Experience of moments in time may prove to be pertinent IF the incident is revealed to be some kind of "disability rage". Perhaps even worse, the media derision about disability "benefits" ,may have a part in causing the event.

I personally will follow this case closely not out of a spurious craving but because of personal experience.

3 points

1. Disability Living Allowance is NOT Sickness Benefit.

2. Sufferers of certain cancers can be assessed and receive "teml
porary" Disability Living Allowance incl Blue Badges. (The new allowance is PIP (Personal Independence Allowance) for new adult applicants since June 2013.

3. DLA for Children is for the Under 16 years of age and includes a mobility element.

I truly hope the incident is not about disability. Only one fact at the moment - An incident occurred and a life has been lost.

S
 
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i dont think it is the first of its kind there was a death over a parking space a few years back in glasgow if i rem 1 of them was a disabled person and if i rem the woman had a heart attack
 
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