Disabled parking

DOESN'T it irk you when you see a perfectly fit and healthy looking individual drive into a disabled parking bay, just so they can scrape a few seconds off their shopping trip?

It irks Mrs A, who thought she would teach the drivers of a municipal vehicle a lesson when she saw them do just that, reports The Herald.

The pair – one man, one woman – had zipped into a bay clearly marked for the disabled at a supermarket recently.

Out they climbed and Mrs A noticed there was (1) no disc on their car and (2) they seemed pretty fit and active. A little overweight, perhaps, but certainly not disabled. The metro’s parking spaces are starting to fill up with pre-Christmas shoppers and that means more selfish motorists taking up disabled parking bays.

Her blood started to boil, but she wasn’t quick enough to say anything to them as they scuttled into the supermarket. So Mrs A marched up to their car, unscrewed the valve on their tyres and let all the air out.
I love it!

However, The Herald motoring editor, Bobby Cheetham, tells me that Mrs A’s action is – technically – a criminal offence.

Isn’t that ironic? Parking in the disabled bay isn’t a crime, but “pranking” the idiots who do park there is. Bobby advises that next time she should rather take their registration number and if you know where they work – in this case, the municipality – then give their head office or employers a call.