Disabled parking Rochdale-style

Like I said Hinch I am only having a go at those minority who make false claims and seem to get a way with it until they are caught. You woulld not think my wife has a disability but she does. When I had an old Orange disabled Badge for my car for my wife and when she started to improve then at the time we decided to return the Orange Badge.. Someone offerd to buy it from me. I told them where to go and was quite shocked. I told them at the office I was returning it to and they did tell me there was a market for it and people willing to buy one for all the wrong reasons. I would not think the then Orange Badge scheme would be of such value for an underground market scheme but there was.

I was driving a vehicle for people with a disabilty and using wheelchairs and had a disabled badge for the vehicle and it was really annoying when you could not park in the disabled spots due to abled bodied drivers who parked there just to go to a bank till for instance. Also not displaying they were disabled and and turned out they should not have parked there. Or when you did park in the street and dispite a sign on the back of the vehicle to leave room, some silly person would park near the vehicle when you got back, not leaving enough room for you to get your passengers on who have to use wheelchairs or use the lift at the back to get on the vehicle if they had difficulty walking and could not use the steps to get onto the vehicle.

If my memory serves me right they had a clamp down once in Manchester and one person who was caught who should not have had a Blue Disable Badge for the car, turned out to be a Bank Manager. She got the blue Disabled Badge from someone so that they would not have to pay the parking charges in Manchester. They got fined in court ending up with a criminal record along with others who were caught during the clamp down.

There are lots of people out there who do not appear to have a disability and have a blue badge for their vehicle for the right reasons, but there are people out there who do make false claims and are spoiling it for the majority who have a valid right to use a blue badge.

Like I said before I am having a go at the people who should not park in the disabled areas and those who make false claims and commit fraud to claim a disabled badge and other benefit claims. Also when they do get caught they are dealt with by the courts and end up with a criminal record.

I think they should have a clamp down on the people who park in areas at the bottom of Yorkshire Street who do not have a valid reason to park there in the disabled spots and not displaying a blue badge and stopping people who have a right to park in disabled parking areas. Then now and again they should have a check like they did in Manchester a few years ago and I bet they would catch one or two now and again who should not have a blue badge and clamp down on the abled bodied drivers who should not take these valuable places up.

Anyway have to go and wash up now because my wife is unable to at the moment. Also I would like to go and work with the elderly again that I use to do and was a very rewarding job, but had to stop because of my wife illnesses in the last few years. But getting there again slowly.

Hinch

It was me and my wife noticed in one case and something we saw in an ASDA car park last year. Like I said it is those who make false claims and get away with it but can also be seen to get away with it.

My better half was turned down for a benefit last year and it is the the people who are so blatant with it that winds us up. I could not make such false claims to try and claim benefit and I would not even win an oscar trying. It is those who getaway with it until they are caught is beyond my understanding. Like Charly mentioned in one post doing work most of the time and then having a walking stick on being checked.

I know someone who retired early due to illhealth one week getting benefits and a pension from work. Then cllimbing on a roof and doing other heavy work the following week and was seen to be doing work for others for pay. I do not know if this is still the case but was noticed by others.

These are the people who spoil it for the genuine claiments and the media coverage you see.