Rude people

Sorry to hear you and your friend had to put up with this. Some people are just so insensitive. My father in law had a similar thing happen to him. They seen him walking (a cop did) and assumed he was just fine to park anywhere else. They wanted to know what his problem was. Needless to say my father in law lost his cool. So what ended up happening with your friend? Did he explain to the cops? Which by the way i dont think he should have to do that.

I hope you made a complaint about the police office involved as that is dreadful. It sounds like someone has thought he was parking where he shouldn't and maybe thought they where doing the right thing by reporting him but the police man should not have had this attitude with him and should be reported.

I know what you mean. My father is the same way, he looks perfectly healthy but he has respiratory problems and can only walk short, unstrenuous distances. You would never know it unless you stopped him to talk to him about it, in which case he would have to catch his breathe before he could respond to you. I think that cop was a little out of line. The stranger on the street might not know better, but cops should know that there are verying degrees of need for handicap permits.

I hate ignorant people! I know that in at least one state you have to get your doctor to fill out your paperwork for the plates and stickers. If your DOC thinks you need it, who is anyone ELSE to question? Sounds like that cop needs some extra training. The other guy just needs smacked.

Hi, I totally know where you are coming from. I have a friend that was wounded in Iraq. She has a prosthetic leg. You can't even tell she has it when she has pants on because she has gotten so used to it she doesn't even have an awkward gate or limp. She also has a problem with her left arm. SHe doesn't have a humerous bone in her upper arm, instead she has a titanium bar that runs from her shoulder to her elbow. But you can't tell just by looking at her. SHe is 30 years old. She got cussed out by an old woman one day at walmart cause she parked in the handicapped parking. She has a permit. So after a few minutes of fussing with the woman she pulled her pants leg up and her shirt sleeve and showed her. Needless to say the woman didn't know what to say. SHe said she was sorry. And to top it off the old woman was even disabled. She was in her sisters car who is disabled. Since her sister had a permit on the car she wanted to park in the handicapped parking. Age doesn't matter whether you have a disability or not neither does physical appearance. People need to wake up and not assume things that they have no business assuming. I hope your friend didn't move his car when the cop came. He had every right to be there. That was just rude.

I think that power leads to way to much precociousness nowadays. I mean what happened there was just cruel, if you have a permit, then you have every right to be there. They might believe that they're doing the right thing to fight justice, but instead, they're just making the idea that cops are the worst even worse

My dear,after reading and understanding what you want to say i would like to tell a small thing,Please dont take it to heart.Actually the matter is not about that person is your friend or not .As he is your freind you know what his diability is and how come the persons looking from outside will know.You only said that he looks normaland that parking place is reserved for the handicapped ,outers after seeing him first will think that the place is occupied by non-disable person .When the first person asked about it you should have explained them the disability,might the problem has been solved then itself.And regarding their behaviour ,its the normal psychology of the people to think so and we doesnt need to take them to heart.Afterall we are the part of the society.

To get a handicap sticker, you have to have prescription from doctor to get it, I would have taken that cop out and pulled out the registration to the sticker and showed him my license so he could see it was issued to me. I would tell him, they wouldn't give it to me without a reason, am I right? Saying this, I would also tell the officer that I expect nothing more to be said because then I will have to report him for harrassment. I have nothing to prove to him, except the registration for the handicap tag.

I can really relate to this hun, my Mother is disabled and finds it very hard to walk very far. She looks fine, the only hint is the splints on her legs which she keeps covered by wearing trousers.It makes me so angry when ignorant people make assumptions purely on appearance anyway, but being disabled does not necessarily show.

I never knew that. I use to assume that if someone is handicap you would be able to tell just by looking at them. They don't know about your friend's situation. They like most people use sterotypes to judge people. They think that if someone looks healthy then they are not disabled. Sure its not true what they think but it is very unlikely for them to meet a handicap person that looks healthy. You should explain it to the cop since the cop can write you a ticket. You can tell at least one other person and maybe they will tell others about your friend's situation.

I can't believe a cop would do that! I wonder if person #1 called him? If he harassed you you should report him, well you friend should any ways. Doctors don't just give out the stickers for the heck of it.

To ahve a stranger come and act that way is nothing new or strange but to have a police man doing it its plain wrong. It should be enough to him to see the sticker and I am sure he can check if its legit or not. My father lost an eye in a car crash in 1976 and he has lots of problems with the other eye. He drives a car (and he is regularly tested to see if he can still drive) any way when it comes to parking depending on the light in the area sometime he need more space and thats why he usses the sticker sometime (not always) and he has had the looks and the comments but he has the sticker. Lots of times I see cars without sticker park in the disability parking if the parking is full and the security dont even tell people off.

You'll encounter a lot of rude people on earth devilsangel. i feel bad for your friend that he has to be a victim of this rude people. Hope there's still a cure for his bad ankle. God bless!

Yeah that would have peeved me too. It's an age old lesson, "don't judge a book by it's cover". And especially being a cop, I hate it when they feel they can just say what ever they want.

Hi there, what's been up to lately buddy? Well there's a lot of people who's so rude and it's really annoying and there's really a type of person in this World and they are many. They are annoying in a sense that, they feel so superior and they are so inconsiderate people. I hate those people as i always encounter such people like that wherever i go. Have a nice day ahead and happy posting and earning here in myLot. Godspeed, Kiko

The saying goes that '"outward appearance is deceptive" i think the cops should have been in a good position to have patience to investigate why he did that and shouldn't just jump into conclusion. The man has seen the sign post and knows it's for disabled people and has parked his car there so they should sense something. in fact we really use the outward appearance in judgement and that causes alot of arguement and threat to society. i also think he should make the disabled sign on his car bold so people will not worry him so much.