They're much too busy directing traffic around construction hazards and busting up crime in Kmart's parking lot to do more useful police work. :)

Dammit! That joke was just sitting there waiting for me to grab it. I can't believe I bobbled it. Excuse me while I go off into a corner and pout.

I figured it was to encourage reader participation. :)

How does a person go about reporting this abuse of handicapped parking tags? I would love to report an incident and have the person's license plate as well. This occurred in Gaveston Count, Texas.

The abuse of handicapped parking is a big joke. Police don't enforce violations and the public, seeing violations so often they are no longer offended, simply blow it off. God help the person who confronts an abusive jerk when caught in the act. Those caught with their hand in the cookie jar, so to speak, become instantly confrontive and threaten physical confrontation. I know from personal experience! I have had people threaten to kick my ass out of my wheelchair (a quote) if I don't mind my own business. An especially stupid retort is "what business is it of yours?" People don't like being caught doing something wrong and will channel embarrassment quickly to anger. Call the police...they won't come. They're too busy making money for the city writing moving violation tickets or whatever. Enforcing handicapped parking regs is way low on the priority list. People don't understand that people who use wheelchair to get around need extra wide spaces to get their chairs into and out of their cars. One issue which is never touched upon is that of safety. If a wheelchair user has to park well away from store front they must roll their chairs past vehicles backing out. We sit so low in our chairs that we can't be seen by drivers doing out of the ordinary tasks. I have been nearly killed several times because all the handicapped spaces were taken at a given business and I had to dodge backing out drivers while rolling to the store front. In a regular size space I can easily return to my car to find someone has innocently parked waaay too close to my door to get back ito my car. I have had to wait hours for people to return and back their car out so I can get into mine. THESE PROBLEMS CAN BEE SOLVED BY STAYING OUT OF HANDICAPPED SPACES. If you can park your car and walk into a store, mall, or whatever and walk around for an hour or two of shopping fun without the need for a wheelchair, walker, or some other aid you don't need a handiapped permit..PERIOD!

The abuse of handicapped parking is a big joke. Police don't enforce violations and the public, seeing violations so often they are no longer offended, simply blow it off. God help the person who confronts an abusive jerk when caught in the act. Those caught with their hand in the cookie jar, so to speak, become instantly confrontive and threaten physical confrontation. I know from personal experience! I have had people threaten to kick my ass out of my wheelchair (a quote) if I don't mind my own business. An especially stupid retort is "what business is it of yours?" People don't like being caught doing something wrong and will channel embarrassment quickly to anger. Call the police...they won't come. They're too busy making money for the city writing moving violation tickets or whatever. Enforcing handicapped parking regs is way low on the priority list. People don't understand that people who use wheelchair to get around need extra wide spaces to get their chairs into and out of their cars. One issue which is never touched upon is that of safety. If a wheelchair user has to park well away from store front they must roll their chairs past vehicles backing out. We sit so low in our chairs that we can't be seen by drivers doing out of the ordinary tasks. I have been nearly killed several times because all the handicapped spaces were taken at a given business and I had to dodge backing out drivers while rolling to the store front. In a regular size space I can easily return to my car to find someone has innocently parke waaay too close to my door to get back into my car. I have had to wait hours for people to return and back their car out so I can get into mine. THESE PROBLEMS CAN BEE SOLVED BY STAYING OUT OF HANDICAPPED SPACES. If you can park your car and walk into a store, mall, or whatever and walk around for an hour or two of shopping fun without the need for a wheelchair, walker, or some other aid you don't need a handiapped permit..period!