Oh dear.

[conuly]

Remember the woman who sends evidence about people who illegally park in handicapped spots?

Donovan McNabb and Jeremiah Trotter were found guilty of parking in handicapped spots. Their vehicles were photographed by Mary Ann Cottrell, who has made it her business to police the handicapped spots. I would suggest Ms. Cottrell look in the mirror before she takes another photo.

She has a handicapped license due to her caring for an adult child with autism. An individual with autism has complete mobility, and it is not necessary for them to use handicapped parking. Let those who are physically impaired use the spots, not Ms. Cottrell.

1. Stop it with the asinine phrase "adult child with autism". Just quit it.

2. You and I have no evidence that Ms. Cottrell's daughter does not, in fact, have any physical impairment.

3. Even if she did, she may still have a perfectly valid reason for using the handicapped spot - for example, if she gets lost very easily, as some people (me) do, due (I believe) to a spatial agnosia and bad sense of direction. That's for the courts to decide.

3.5 Which they already did, didn' they?

Shouldn't Ms. Cottrell be working or taking care of her handicapped kid instead of stalking the citizens of New Jersey?

I guess Ms. Cottrell didn't watch the Eagles play last season. Otherwise she would agree that McNabb definitely deserved a handicapped spot.

Humor as a defense mechanism. Never seen that one before.

Why would Donovan be so foolish as to contest a ticket for parking in a handicapped space?

He's a millionaire making more than enough to pay such a fine with the wages of an hour. Yet he brings a well-paid lawyer in to fight this fine. Why? Teammate Jeremiah Trotter isn't much better.

Exactly. He's just making himself look bad. *nodnodnod*

Three letters, two of which aren't worth the paper they're virtually printed on. *le sigh*

On a related note, about how many children under six do you have to have before a presumably non-disabling pregnancy justifies taking the handicapped spot? I'm not sure, but I think it *must* be more than just two.

Comments

[conuly]

Yes, it *was*, if you'd bothered to pay attention or at least read the link i posted

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

except...I was not commenting directly to *you*. I was commenting to the comment.

Wow. Calm. Down.

[conuly]

Which, Lizziey, was commenting directly about the link I posted, wherein I specifically said that people who are disabled via pregnancy should get disabled placards.

Lizziey, you start off, your very first comment on this post, calling me hostile to pregnant people because I say that those who are disabled have every right to go and get a temporary placard. And then you go on and on about how disabling pregnancy can be when nobody has disputed that. Nobody!

It's insulting, Lizziey. You make no effort to read what I've written, but you think you can reply to it. Which would be fine, except you're replying to things I haven't even said.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

My comment about your tendancy to downplay pregnancy was not just about this post, and I said that. It is just how you have been talking about it lately, in more than one post.

And because the *person* I commented to had commented to you, does not mean MY comment was to you. I commented to things they said in their comment. Period.

If you are taking it as an insult, that is your problem. *I* for one, have been the brunt of your pissyness quite a bit lately, and I don't see the reason why. If you have a problem with me, just outright say it. I mean really, Con, you have that ability to a fault. Why not use it now?

[conuly]

Oddly enough, I'm *not* mad at you. I've noticed it too - but I'm not mad at you. Which is pissing me off. All this righteous indignation, I ought to be mad at you.