[Lemmy]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I don't think that's possible. My girlfriend said she wouldn't go any lower on the social ladder than an engineer.

And she knows that engineers fall well below economists on ANY scale. I'd worry about the car salesman too.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Brenda Brenda:

Where do pregnant women get special parking?
There are a few "reserved for people with children" parking spots here that are next to the handicapped spots, and are wider than the regular ones so you can get your stroller next to your car and put your kid in, which imo is one of the things that makes Canada friendly.

The Cambridge Centre has more parking spaces for pregnant women than for handicapped parking.
I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Brenda Brenda:

Where do pregnant women get special parking?
There are a few "reserved for people with children" parking spots here that are next to the handicapped spots, and are wider than the regular ones so you can get your stroller next to your car and put your kid in, which imo is one of the things that makes Canada friendly.

The Cambridge Centre has more parking spaces for pregnant women than for handicapped parking.
I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

Wish I had your balls. I'm too ashamed to do that.

[Regina]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

When are you due?

[raydan]

Regina Regina:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

When are you due?

He's just fat.

[Regina]

raydan raydan:

Regina Regina:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

When are you due?

He's just fat.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

raydan raydan:

Regina Regina:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

When are you due?

He's just fat.

I am now..I wasn't then

[Yogi]

Around here, cops give out a written 1st warning that only costs the offender $280.00!

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Yogi Yogi:

Around here, cops give out a written 1st warning that only costs the offender $280.00!

For parking in a pregnant parking spot???

[PublicAnimalNo9]

andyt andyt:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Brenda Brenda:

Where do pregnant women get special parking?
There are a few "reserved for people with children" parking spots here that are next to the handicapped spots, and are wider than the regular ones so you can get your stroller next to your car and put your kid in, which imo is one of the things that makes Canada friendly.

The Cambridge Centre has more parking spaces for pregnant women than for handicapped parking.
I do like one difference between the two. The pregnant parking is completely unenforceable. I parked in them all the time.

Wish I had your balls. I'm too ashamed to do that.

As my ex-wife, mother of three said, "Pregant women could use the exercise."
I'll take the word of someone that experienced something I thankfully never had to or will have to experience

[Yogi]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Yogi Yogi:

Around here, cops give out a written 1st warning that only costs the offender $280.00!

For parking in a pregnant parking spot???

Any parking spot that is otherwise marked, and the offending vehicle is not approprately marked. We can't even park in a 'Taxi Cab Only' spot!

And the offending vehicle IS towed adding about another $160.00 to the fine levied.

[raydan]

I think they can probably tow and ticket in any province.

It would be SO easy to put a 280$ ticket on them, once you get 1, you probably won't do it again. Either nobody's checking, nobody's complaining or the police don't give a rat's ass.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Yogi Yogi:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Yogi Yogi:

Around here, cops give out a written 1st warning that only costs the offender $280.00!

For parking in a pregnant parking spot???

Any parking spot that is otherwise marked, and the offending vehicle is not approprately marked. We can't even park in a 'Taxi Cab Only' spot!

And the offending vehicle IS towed adding about another $160.00 to the fine levied.

In Ontario it's all handled with by-law signs. For example, not all handicapped spots are enforceable. In Ontario, when you see a spot painted blue with the wheelchair but there's no sign at the front of it with a city by-law number, it's little more than a courtesy provided by the property owner.
With regards to Cab Stands, I suspect that has more to do with the cab companies having to pay the city to "reserve" those spots.

[Thanos]

raydan raydan:

I've talked to a few "wheelchair people" and it's not even a question of "how close". They didn't mind parking far from the doors. The big problem is having a wider parking space so that they could get in and out of the car.
One told me that he'd parked in a regular parking space and couldn't get back into his car. Had to wait until the owner of the car parked beside him came back.

That's the problem right there. They shrunk down the width of the stalls back in teh 1980's thanks to the massive increase in the number of compact cars. And they sure never bothered to do the reverse with the explosion of large SUV's and pick-ups in the 1990/00's. The malls and grocery stores really fucked up on this one. Seriously, what would giving an extra foot on both sides of a stall cost them? It's fucking retarded.

[Thanos]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Meh. I don't think it's an issue. Slow news day. I often see people with the Disabled tag hiop out of their vehicles and for the life of me I can't see why they are disabled.

I used to have a beuaty lowered Camaro that I hated paarking in normal-sized stalls because people would ding it swinging their doors open. My favourite thing to do was to shine that baby up like new and then pull into the Safeway and take up not one, but two Disabled parking spots. I knew I shouldn't be doing that, but I just loved the look of their handicapped faces when they saw me do it. Before I'd pull out I'd wait for a mom with little kids to walk behind the car, and then gun that V8 to the max and make the kids cry. When the store manager complained I'd hit him in the head with the beer can I'd just chugged. Good times.

Frankly disabled people should be mulched up and turned into Soylent Green. And old people. And obnoxious cyclists. And economists.

If I wasn't almost certain that you're joking I'd neg rep you for that kind of behaviour, ya bastard. But then again I wouldn't want to cause problems for a fellow 500 Club member either.