Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxn!res From: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: handycapped spaces Message-ID: <909@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 21:43:43 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.909 Posted: Sun Dec 16 21:43:43 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 04:21:03 EST References: <121@iris.UUCP> <4000022@hp-pcd.UUCP> <755@oliven.UUCP> <184@talcott.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 | 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 ...!ihnp4!ihuxn!res