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

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

really? reading the comment, it not *once* said ANYTHING about having already acknowledged the fact. not a single time.

And again, I said NOTHING about driving, i was refering to the comments about pregnancy in *general*. Period.

[conuly]

The comments, as you well know, are about people who aren't disabled. Those who are, for whatever reason, don't count.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

it wasn't differentiated. at all. and so i made the comment.

[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.

[leora.livejournal.com]

That is because there is absolutely no difference whatsoever between being disabled because you are pregnant and being disabled for other reasons. If you are disabled, you are disabled. If you are not, you are not.

That's like complaining because we didn't specifically mention that being disabled because you were hit by a car driven by a drunk driver, and that those people often need placards too. We also didn't specify that some people are born with disabilities and others acquire them. Disabled is disabled.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

And thank you for stating that. But the way you worded it, made it as if the *pregnant* women were the ones needing to walk, and it would be good for them.

I've become a bit sensitive I guess. I deal with certain communities that have become very freetarded lately (that does not mean all CF'ers are freetarded, just some). And thinkingabout pregnancy a lot, as my husband and I will be trying again early summer (when he is home for a couple/few weeks from overseas). SO, yeah...

I myself do not have a vehicle, since I am legally blind, but many times friends of mine have to drive me places, and have to park quite a bit away, and are not able to drop me off close, and find a place. So, I am not able to get a placard, even though I need one.

[leora.livejournal.com]

My rant is against non-disabled people using the spots when no one they are with is disabled. I don't care if they are male or female, pregnant or not. I thought it was obvious though that it didn't apply to people who actually are disabled - of course they can use the spots, that's what they are designed for.

Why can't you get a placard? I found being legally blind was one of the easiest ways to get a handicapped placard (hang-tag) to use while riding wiht other people. Which is sad, because being legally blind didn't, in and of itself, disable me. I could walk just fine with just the blindness, it was the rest of the disabilities that made walking really hard. But as they were complicated and hard to explain, it was just simple and easy to get all sorts of things by saying, yes, I am legally blind.

I really strongly encourage anyone who needs a placard to get one. It's a pain initially to set things up, but it'll make your life much better in the long run. If you're disabled, use those spots. If you're perfectly healthy and lazy/in a rush, leave them for those who truly need them.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I didn;t know I *could* get one, as I didn;t drive. thank you!