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From: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: handycapped spaces
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Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 21:43:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 21:43:43 1984
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| I have only rarely seen a legally occupied handicapped parking space, and I
| have often seen a large, completely full parking lot.  Completely full,
| that is, except for the handicapped parking spaces, all of which were
| empty.  Meanwhile, I spent twenty more minutes looking for a parking space
| in the nearby lots...

My heart bleeds for you.  

A word of warning to visitors to the Chicago area.  Many communities
have passed laws making the citation for illegally parking in a
handicapped space cost the violator $50.  The management of several of
the shopping malls in the Chicago area have been inviting the local
police in to write those tickets.

I applaude long and hard everytimes I see such a ticket being written.

I, too, have circled a parking lot until a parking spot finally came
free that I could get into before someone else beat me to it; but I do
not begrudge the handicapped the reserved spots they have -- I am just
happy that I do not have a need for one.

					Rich Strebendt
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