Your own pictures of bad parking **WITH CHAT**

On the one hand, you like to see the enforcement of the rules, but on the other, it doesn't exactly free up the space for a badge holder to use - should be towed away, driver would have to pay even more then!

There's that, and there's also an able-bodied driver collecting or dropping off the badge holder. My mother-in-law's blue badge would be feck all use if she had to be driving, as she's never driven a car in her life…

they should put in for a badge so 🙄 it's pure selfish and lazy behaviour, but there's always someone ready to come up with an implausible excuse.

Do you personally know of any con artists who have blue badges in their name?

If yes, do you know how they got the badge Are you maybe putting 2+2 together and getting 10?

Not driving is not a reason for excluding someone from having a blue badge. My OH has an Uncle who can no longer drive, but he has a blue badge for when he is being driven to and from places by family. It means they can park close to the premises so he can make it to where he is going. Should his badge be taken because he can't drive?

You must know the person well. If you know how they got it and shouldn't have got it, you should report that abuse. It's a disgrace for anyone to take a space from a badge holder and even worse if they abuse the system to get one. I don't judge anyone who exits the car and who has a badge, as I don't know why they have one. I don't expect every badge holder to fall out of their car, screaming in agony.

I'm a bb holder and it boils my blood when I see abuse of the system. Commonly I see people parked in the spaces, sitting in the car with no badge. They seem to have the mentality that if they are in the car, it's OK to park there. I know this, because I've spoken to several of them over the years.

I parked beside one of them a couple of weeks ago, blocking them in, as I went to visit my GP. There are 2 bays parallel to the pavement outside the surgery and pharmacy and the first bay was blocked by a Range Rover Evoque with a mid-teen in the passenger seat. No badge. The teen didn't say anything when I asked if the driver had a disabled badge, or where the driver had gone…just a shrug of the shoulders, so I went for my appointment. My GP visit took about 40 minutes.

When I returned, there was a very able bodied woman at the car who was shouting on the phone to someone. She was livid. To cut a long story short, she was stuck there about 40 minutes. I had seen her from the window when I sat down in the surgery. She had then come into the surgery and asked reception about my car blocking hers and was fobbed off when she admitted she had no badge for the bay.

My badge was on display and building security refused to help because she was in a bb bay with no badge and my car had a badge clearly displayed. She accused me of holding her and her daughter hostage by blocking them in, but quietened down when I offered to call the Gards for their opinion on the matter. The old "I just ran into the pharmacy for a second" line was thrown out. Well, I had waited about 10 minutes hoping for another spot to become free before approaching her daughter and then I had to go to my appointment, so I figured she could fúck right off.

Moral of the story. If you're being díck and you have no right to park in a bb spot, don't be surprised to find your car blocked, clamped, or gone when you get back.