Monday Morals - Episode 3

This week’s question involves one of everyone’s favorite pet peeves: handicapped parking spaces! How far would you go to make sure they live up to their full potential?

First to play last week: Jeff of ..by Jeff Tompkins. Congratulations!

(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)

Here is this week’s “Monday’s Morals” question. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your blog…but either way, leave a link to your site so that everyone else can visit! If you repost the questions on your site, you must link back to this site as the source.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
You see someone park in a handicapped parking space, pull a handicapped parking permit from their glove compartment and hang it on the rear-view mirror, and then walk — without any difficulty — inside a store. If you see that the person is alone and therefore doesn’t need the handicapped space, and you then see that someone who is legitimately handicapped is forced to park several spaces away, how likely are you to report the first motorist to a passing police officer? Why or why not?
Hmmm. This is a good one. I see people all the time do exactly that... and I wonder what the grounds for getting a handicapped placard are, since this is not an uncommon occurrance. Does a mental illness actually qualify? Blind people can't drive. Maybe someone who is deaf... but they can certainly walk.
On the other hand, I hate it when those spaces are used by the clearly non-handicapped; I don't mean someone who has the plates or the placard but has nothing at all. And gives others a bad attitude for his or her not using the space appropriately.
I don't know what I'd do... and I don't know that the police could do anything if the car driver has the placard. On the other hand, maybe the driver is not the one to whom the placard is assigned. This was a lot harder to answer than the first two!

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