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"Chris Thomas" <chris@no.spam.wn.com.au> wrote:

>"Spodosaurus" <sstrictform@hotmail.comm> wrote in message
>news:3cb54f54.621815@news-server.wa.bigpond.net.au...
>> I used to do all my business with Xtreme-Evolution after that.  It was
>> good at first, but then they started hiring staff that were not too
>> good.  Then, one of their staff starts using the disabled parking bay
>> out front as a loading zone.  When I ask him and the customer not to
>> do this, they ignore me, followed by this staff member coming up to me
>> and telling me that because I'm not in a wheelchair full time I'm not
>> disabled enough to use that bay anyway!  I've never set foot in one of
>> their stores (they have two now) again, and never will.
>
>But I thought disabled parking was a simple black and white situation. If
>you have an ACROD parking permit sticker, you can park in a disabled parking
>bay, if you don't, you can't. That's the law isn't it? That takes the whole
>"you're not disabled enough" argument out of the public's hands.

Not quite... my wife has an ACROD card in her car, 'cos she drives her mum
around a fiar bit. If I park in a disabled bay and display the card when she's
not in the car, then 
1. I'm breaking the law, even though I have an ACROD permit
2. I deserve to be fined
3. I would expect to be abused by all and sundry who saw me doing it.

'course, if I got abused and it was my card, I'd be ropable.
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