The Greater Hillmomba region is beset with a new epidemic. STRIPE PARKING! I'm pretty certain there is no cure. Anybody attempting to start the parker on a path of recovery might face deadly consequences. Seems like only a couple weeks ago I was nearly run down by a Stripe Parker at the Sis-Town Casey's. Saturday's incurable sufferer was observed at 10Box.
I got a picture of this one. Don't blame the man. He was parked farther down the row, and was merely putting his cart up against the building.
The red car was parked on the striped walkway when I got there. The handicap space next to it was open, which is where I parked, though scooted over a bit because, you know, there was a CAR PARKED ON THE HANDICAP WALKWAY, and I needed to make sure T-Hoe's door could open all the way.
This Stripe Parker DID have a handicap placard. That does NOT excuse the behavior! You might think it more justifiable than the man on the 4-wheeler who was backed in and sitting there last week. I do not. If a handicap space is not available, I park in a regular space out in the main lot, and watch. Until somebody comes out and leaves a handicap space open. Then I drive up and park there.
Sure, it's EXTREMELY hot. People are getting their first-of-the-month checks and groceries. Perhaps some goodies for their 4th of July cookouts. That does not excuse them from the unwritten rules of society. Striped handicap walkway parking might actually have a WRITTEN rule somewhere. Yet it's never enforced.
The handicapped have a different-titleness where some behaviors are concerned. But not an ENtitledness to park wherever they want.
2 comments:
If I was to see that here (unlikely) and noted down the licence plate and phoned it in, that person might get a warning or a fine. those spaces are stripe marked for a reason. No parking. I'd be more inclined to make a fuss if someone parked on a zebra striped walkway, but that never happens here either. Perhaps the younger generations just haven't been taught what certain markings mean in parking lots.
River,
According to Woman Owner at the Gas Station Chicken Store, police don't even go after the gas drive-off thieves around here. Even with video evidence of faces and license plates. Police say the judges let them go, and it's not worth the time they spend arresting them. So I doubt anything would be done to these parkers.
Your theory might be right. I doubt that knowing these markings and the penalties is on the driver's license test. On the vision test, it's only a few road signs, no markings.
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