Saw this today:



Is that level of security really necessary these days???

Are blue badges big theft targets now??

Am i niaive to be shocked some one needs to lock up thier blue badge in a locked car????

 

yep they are always getting stolen the amount of windows ive had to replace due to these being stolen

 

yeah but what are they worth??

all so you can park for free in SOME places (bear in mind many car parks charge people disabled or not the one i work at included!!).

 

If it saves someone a tenner a day parking in the city centre then worth a fair bit!!

 

ive heard up to Ł100

 

Park near the door in Supermarkets, nearly always guaranteed a space.

Also Where the Blue Badge Scheme applies:

• you are allowed to park at on-street parking meters and pay-and-displays free of charge (unless there is a local traffic order in force specifying a time limit)

• you may be exempted from parking time limits imposed on other road users

• in England and Wales, you may usually park on double or single yellow lines for up to three hours

• there is no time limit on parking in Scotland unless there is a ban on loading and unloading

• you will need to display the special blue parking disk displaying the time of arrival in addition to the Blue Badge. If you run up your time limit, you cannot renew it immediately on the same road or part of a road, but must allow an interval of at least one hour.
• The badges can be used while travelling abroad within the European Union (EU) and in some other European countries. The Blue Badge scheme does not apply to off-street car parks, private roads or at most airports.

 

why dont they add registrations to blue badge then?? Problem solved! Make the box big enough for a few numbers and then you can cover the close family of disabled people who dont have thier own car.

 

Thats just mad.

 

Ive never understood why blue badge holders can park on double yellows. Are blue badge holders somehow less dangerous than the non blue badge holders on double yellows? A car is a car!

 

My old dolly has the very same device in her car


Luciano

 

Try Ł500 that what the traffic warden priced them at !!

 

Ł500 I might start these then, any orders ?
They don't put the reg number on as the holder can use it for any car she/he is a passenger in if she/he gets out, so number would be pointless, that is why they have a photo, and why it is now a offence not to show it when asked by plod or traffic warden.
tabetha

 

if you work out the price of parking in the city is 50 quid a day !!! you can drive to work and use this nad not pay for parking

the abuse of the badge by the REAL owners is just as bad tbh but ignored all the time as they feel they have the right to abuse there badge

 

Thats standard issue - been like that for a while

 

the ammount of people who abuse the blue badge is unreal

i'd just stick a ticket on everything and then let the badge holder write in to explain why it was being used

got to get harsh with everyone to stop them taking the piss, anyone who abuses it gets the privilege removed

simple

 

I've reported 3 people who have abused it constantly, 2 had the badges taken off them.
tabetha

 

We have a blue badge for our son who's mentally disabled, and the number of times we get back to the car with our son, to find some idiot has left a note saying that they saw we where not disabled and should not be abusing the blue badge!!

FFS, you dont have to be physically disabled to have a blue badge!!

The tossers never come over and ask face to face.

 

the enighbours have got 2 disabled kids, one in a wheelchair, but none of their cars are wheelchair compatiable, nor do they ever let them out unless they are getting on the short bus

yet they have a disabled bay outside and every concivable benifit for having these kids, but don't do fuck all with them unless someones visits them to clean them etc

 

You're not alone I get it too, especially from old people, who think you must be old to be disabled, they look over sneakily at the piccie on the badge as well.
tabetha

 

lol thats crazy!!!!

 

i would abuse it if i had one LOL

 

they have been sold for well over a grand and its getting done more and more

 

You are not alone. I have a badge and I am attacked at least 1 in every 5 times I use it. Guaranteed. I am 22 mind, and I don't look like I should have one. I've even had the Police drive up, put the window down and shout 'Get it moved!' When I tried to explain myself I got 'Shift it, or we'll shift it'.

I also remember an old lady asking me whilst I was sat reading the Nuts magazine 'Are you accompanying a Disabled person?' I said 'I came with my Mum, she's not Disabled' to which she flew off the handle and told me to move before she called the Police.

My Family always say I should explain myself, but I don't see why I should! Winding up the ignorant passes the time.


Benni.

 

anyone who wants to buy a blue badge PM me.

 

How much?

Benni.

 

you already got one.

got a limitless suply of these. no windows broken in getting them either

 

Send me a PM with a picture? I'll tell you how close it is to the original I have sat next to me.

 

you have PM

 

First of all, you wan't to be very careful with those. You have enough of them! From the picture they look a little lighter blue than the original, but that could be the flash? The fact that they all have the same name on, I guess that's not a problem though. I feel sorry for Deborah Allen - Whoever she is! They look geniune enough.

Don't sell them in Liverpool - I can never get a bay as it is.

Benni.

 

they are bang on, trust me

i know a few people round here using them

 

i don't have a problem with non disabled people using the badge for doing errands etc, but it's when peole think they can just park anywhere that pisses me off, like when they park in the parent/child bays at the supermarket

if they are parked illegally they should still get ticketed and then write in to get the ticket cancelled, simple eh

 

When i was doing multi drop, always used to have problems with blue badge holders parking in loading bays, just used to block them in, they'd go up the wall if i parked in a blue badge space to do a drop tho.
In Newmarket, one of the loading bays was opposite double yellows, guaranteed on market day the blue badge brigade would park on the double yellows, then i used to get grief for using the loading bay, and it was always the blue badge lot moaning that other traffic couldn't get thru, imo it was them that was parked illegally and causing the obstruction.

 

you may remembr me posting about getting blocked in a car park by a blue badge holder and then being told that security couldn't move it

20 angry drivers may or may not have persuaded secirity to move it, either by explaining that there was no badge in the window now that some scrote had broken the window and removed it or by other means of remonstration

 

whats the casing of the badge made out of? if its plastic i dont see the point in using a chain to secure it