Kind of a neat thing you could put on a cars w/o proper tags/plates

[Lachesis00]

I have had this a while but just found them today and scanned them in. I added space to the right to add a note of needed.

I wonder if there are other signs out there for the same situations.

The original scan is here: Original Scan

 

[Schmeck]

I think you're better off notifying the proper authorites rather than risking a possible confrontation by putting something on someone else's private property - this form of 'tagging' is illegal in many places, and you could be the one who ends up with a fine as well.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I would tend to agree with Schmeck on this for several reasons.

One, of course, is the possibility of a confrontable situation.

The second is that I tend to go to extremes sometimes. I would print this out on full sheet size label stock (8.5 x 11) and then peel the backing and it would be stuck as a label to the windshield. And it might be for a person who is entitled to use the space but forgot to hang the tag.

However, I have the non-emergency numbers for the Sheriff's Offices of Orange, Osceola and Polk Counties, and the Police Departments of Kissimmee and Orlando, programmed into my cell phone and I will call them in. Unless the closest officer is tied up, the result usually is a $250 ticket.

 

[Belle1962]

I would love something like this and would only use it at work!!!!! The WORST place in the world is my employer--a FEDERAL facility. The brand new garage has handicapped parking on every level near the elevators but not enough spaces for handicapped or other employees. If there's a big conference or press event in our new facilities (which have the largest conference rooms and auditoriums of all our facilities) FORGET IT----add those people to the daily employees and there are cars everywhere. You get to work early-, stay in at lunch and pray there's enough space to turn the corners when you get off.

Anyway back to assisted parking----my employer offers a "medical tag" for those who require special parking due to a temporary medical condition--such as pregnancy , The problem--they never take their tags back!!! We have women whose children are starting school and still have the medical tag--and they brag about it!!!! In addition, as I have pointed out to the powers that be MANY times---even someone with a legitimate temporary disability can get a tag from the state---red not blue. We should not be in the business of judging medical necessity (even if a large number of our workforce are medical personnel).

So Friday morning I get an email---now they will require their tag AND the state tag to be parked in handicapped. HUH?????? The State issued, documented blue hangtag, hard tags or the red tag PROPERLY DISPLAYED (we all know those face down on the dashboard people) should be sufficient. I now have to submit additional paperwork to get a proper medical tag from them.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Have you tried to get someone from your Agency's General Counsel office to review the policies and compare them with both ADA and youre state law? Not as an official request, but just in a conversation.

I know at my last agency I could go to the OGC when I had a problem or question and would be given good advice. A couple of times I know that there were agency policy changes based on my questions; the lawyers there considered my going to them at attorney-client privledge and so agency management was never aware of who had originated the question.

 

[Lachesis00]

In Alaska the state would do nothing about it. NOTHING. Drove me mad. When I first started working there it was myself and one other person both with tags. As years progressed, the number of people went up (a lot with 6 month passes, that still seemed to park there with expired tags over 3 years later) and some with out passes. Winter time was the worst because the lines would be covered and apparently the signs mean nothing.

These one people had a 5 year pass... their truck, a piece you step on to get in/out of the truck, I am SO not kidding, had to be 5' high and no other step. They would both HOP to the ground (if I even attempted that I would be on my butt or hurt severely) every day. I can not imagine jumping out that high and not getting hurt some how.

No one questioned them because they had the pass. And I know for a fact, if you go in and say you lost/misplaced/the pass was stolen they would give you a new one with a new year (5 years from the current year) and so the cycle is easy to continue.

I see down here people use the handicapped to go in for a couple minutes. Calling the cops does little. It is just not a high priority on their list down here. Funny thing is summer time when the snowbirds are gone seems to be worse then the winter time, pass or no pass (which I see all year round... no pass).

Of course there was also a law passed you couldn't smoke with in 15' of a door. What a joke that was. They all congregated on the handicapped ramp including the head of the department of labor. Signs posted all over meant nothing. I mean heaven forbid you freeze while puffing away on a cancer stick. It was so bad I could not use the ramp. I'd hold my breath while I attempted to work my way up stairs. It was terrible.

We've been gone 2 years and I am still bitter about both issues.

Cops drive by nothing was ever done about either situation

 

[shovan]

Lachesis00, I've used a similar card here in New Orleans without any incidents.

Sometimes, though I like to have a card that asks "Is your handicap a reading disability or blindness?!" or maybe just a card that says
"You are an *!!**!!".

Can y'all tell it was a shopping weekend for us?! People just make me so mad! How much bigger do the letters on our van saying " PARK AT LEAST 8 FEET AWAY" need to be?!!! And that's if you can even find a handicapped spot that not already filled with a car without the license!

Sorry! There I go, ranting on someone else's thread again!

 

[Mason7AK]

Quote: In Alaska the state would do nothing about it. NOTHING. Drove me mad. When I first started working there it was myself and one other person both with tags. As years progressed, the number of people went up (a lot with 6 month passes, that still seemed to park there with expired tags over 3 years later) and some with out passes. Winter time was the worst because the lines would be covered and apparently the signs mean nothing.

These one people had a 5 year pass... their truck, a piece you step on to get in/out of the truck, I am SO not kidding, had to be 5' high and no other step. They would both HOP to the ground (if I even attempted that I would be on my butt or hurt severely) every day. I can not imagine jumping out that high and not getting hurt some how.

No one questioned them because they had the pass. And I know for a fact, if you go in and say you lost/misplaced/the pass was stolen they would give you a new one with a new year (5 years from the current year) and so the cycle is easy to continue.

I see down here people use the handicapped to go in for a couple minutes. Calling the cops does little. It is just not a high priority on their list down here. Funny thing is summer time when the snowbirds are gone seems to be worse then the winter time, pass or no pass (which I see all year round... no pass).

Of course there was also a law passed you couldn't smoke with in 15' of a door. What a joke that was. They all congregated on the handicapped ramp including the head of the department of labor. Signs posted all over meant nothing. I mean heaven forbid you freeze while puffing away on a cancer stick. It was so bad I could not use the ramp. I'd hold my breath while I attempted to work my way up stairs. It was terrible.

We've been gone 2 years and I am still bitter about both issues.

Cops drive by nothing was ever done about either situation
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Rachel, I am in Anchorage, Alaska. Nothing has changed in the two years you have been gone! We can NEVER get a van accessible spot (and we have two children in wheelchairs). I usally have to drop them at the door at many places with our older teenagers, while I go and try to find a handicapped spot to park for when we come out! And believe it or not, SOMEONE actually called the DOT and reported us misusing our placard!! Apparently they saw me and my older daughter exiting the vehicle and called it in, not knowing that we had just dropped our lift at the door to the store and let the two little ones out with their older brother before parking. I knew nothing of this until I got a letter in the mail from DOT saying they were cancelling our placard!!
Luckily all it took was a call to DOT explaining what happened to straighten things out, but with all the handicapped parking abuse that does go on, I could not believe WE got reported (unjustly) when we do park legitimately!! And by the way, we NEVER park in handicapped parking unless we have one of our wheelchair kiddos with us!
Angela