On Monday 12 October 2009 18:01:49 Dale wrote: > > All disabled folks have funny stories to relate :-) > > > > I work at an ISP and there's 1 (yes, just one) disabled bay on our > > entire parking level. A disabled colleague uses it but there's a special > > kind of idiot in the building that things his SUV is shaped like a > > wheelchair (guess where he parks). > > > > What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the > > firewall admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of > > other admins too. It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the > > disabled bay, his internet doesn't work..... > > > > We're still waiting for the penny to drop. It's hasn't yet :-) > > > > > > I don't have the little thing so that I can park in the disabled parking > spot, yet anyway. I do think it is funny that the guy can make him pay > for parking where he is not supposed to tho. Down here, they write > tickets and you get to pay a good size fine for that. > > Dale
I live in the deep south of darkest Africa and we do things differently here :-) The cops can't be bothered with tickets so it's up to property owners to police the bays. A mate used to manage a supermarket, and had the usual big sign that non-disabled people parking in the bays would have their wheels clamped and would have to pay a donation to the disabled society to have them unclamped. One day an idiot refused to pay. So he tried to drive off anyway. In a brand new Mercedes. Caused about ZAR15,000 damage to his wheel arches rather than admit he was wrong and cough up ZAR200 :-) Darwin gets them all in the end :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
