'Laziness is not a disability': council
Published: 23 Apr 12 12:20 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/40424/20120423/
Disability Council members of a Swedish town have had enough of “lazy” drivers who park their cars in the disabled spaces, and want the erection of signs stating that laziness is not a recognized form of disability.
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Members of the municipality's disability council (handikapprådet) are now lobbying to see the signs be used around the local area.
“People don’t respect disabled parking signs,” said Margareta Gustavsson of the council to the Västerbottens Kuriren newspaper.
“They seem to think that laziness is a disability, but it’s actually not at all.”
Gustavsson added that the Nordmaling community centre has already claimed one of the signs to erect in their own car park.
However, community development officer of the municipality, Sune Höglander, sees things differently, and has no intention of implementing the signs.
“It’s just a fun thing they’ve got for themselves, but I don’t think that those kinds of road signs will be found in our catalogue. Signs must be accurate, factual, and not emotive,” he said.
Höglander also pointed out that he didn’t consider “lazy parkers” taking disabled spaces to be a large problem in Nordmaling.
Gustavsson disagreed, according to the paper, and intends to take the matter further, pointing to the fact that similar signs in other parts of Sweden have proved to be effective.
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People are just too lazy to give a thought to others
Problem is that in Sweden only companies like Q-park fine car drivers.
Just like you should not park in a handicapped spot you should also not drive through red lights but everybody does because they know the police will never fine them.
If the police would once in a while have a look at this parking spot and fine people that use it wrongly than such a sign wouldn't be necessary. If the police doesn't such a sign is useless.
Or would that be discrimination against the intellectually impaired?
Your comments are just idiotic - it shows the mentality of some people!
Imagine NEVER being able to take for granted that you can go to work/the shops/ hospital appointments etc because bratty people such as yourself think it's OK or "cute" to park in a disabled space
In any case temporary disability does not entitle you to a disability permit or to park in a disabled space - the process of getting a permit takes several months and requires medical evidence as to the nature of your disability
A more important unintended consequence is that lazy people are not likely to read the signs in the first place. ;-)
It may also be a case of oversupply and lack of demand. In some areas, there are many disabled parking places but not very many disabled people to use them. This is often the case of laws or regulations created at a centralized location and applied to a diverse geographic area and varying demographic.
It is natural human behavior to question laws and rules which are there for no other reason than to have the law or rule. If people continually observe vacant handicapped parking spaces they are likely to occupy them whether or not they are disabled. Another example would be the cannabis legalization movement...a body of citizens challenging the validity of laws based on their view that marijuana is a harmless drug, and the laws are there for other reasons such as ensuring some of pharma companies drugs are not replaced by something anyone can grow..or a host of other perceived reasons.
Dude, you've got to be some leftwing liberal wacko, b/c you've no sense of humor. Do you seriously believe that I'm advocating tiredness as a reason to violate parking laws?
Have you ever been told that you take way too seriously yourself? Well, if not, perhaps it's about time.
Hey, do this, check the want ads for jobs as an undertaker, you seem to have the personality for that profession.
@ Rabbemos: Good comments.
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It took 9 months and 3 doctors to figure out what was wrong - I'd developed fibromyalgia. It took another year to figure out the right combination of drugs, vitamin supplements, diet and careful exercise so that I could continue to work and have a somewhat normal life.
Today I am at 90% of what I used to be. I can work, go to school, care for my family and spend time with my friends. But there are limits to what I can do and if I'm not very careful, I will get a "flare-up" that puts me in bed for 1-3 days. There is no cure; I'll be like this for the rest of my life. A lot of people in my situation stop working and go on disability. I refuse to live more than 1/2 my life hiding from the world, so I live in pain every day. And you call me a PARASITE.