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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.
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.
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Date: 2006-04-15 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-15 09:04 pm (UTC)As for educating the sillies - it's like that story about the boy and the starfish, and how he's throwing them back into the sea even after being told he can't save them all so it doesn't matter. "It matters to this one!" If we just keep throwing the sillies into the sea....
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Date: 2006-04-15 09:10 pm (UTC)As I tell people, the benefits I receive are open to pretty much all. Do you want a nifty placard like mine? Do you want audiobooks or Braille books mailed to your home? Well, you can have them too. You just need to poke your eyes out. They will count the disability, even if it is self-inflicted (as far as I know). And then you can have the same benefits that I do. Too attached to your eyes? Cut off your legs and I bet you can get benefits from that too. Really, these things are available to any willing to go for them. And if you're not willing, then shut up. Because if having the disabilities is such a hardship, then maybe you should let us have our friggin' spaces. Besides, the two disabilities I named are actually both fairly small ones. The really hard disabilities are hard to acquire by choice. The ones where you can't breathe and are prone to collapse and experience terrible pain whenever you need to move around. Those are the really nasty ones. Blind people at least don't tend to be in chronic pain from their blindness. Losing limbs varies, that can be painful even long afterward, but travel isn't likely to affect that as much. So, really, if you're not willing to put in the bare minimum effort...