Handicapped Parking Fraud

Admit it, you have been irritated more than once when you had to park a long distance from your destination and someone else pulled into a handicapped parking spot at the front, got out of the car with no apparent disability, and walked briskly to the front door of the business ahead of you. It happens too frequently. These days almost anyone can be thought of as disabled or handicapped by some doctor and get a sticker for their car or a temporary window hanger.

This situation has gotten completely out of hand. The answer is to go back to what handicapped parking was meant for, that is, people in wheel chairs. (That is why the marking for these parking spots is a wheelchair.) Besides ending the fraud, we would also free up many parking spaces because they would only be used by the truly deserving.