Ever notice that in most newer (or just recently remodelled) stores that there are handicap parking spaces that are rectangular (running normal with the flow of traffic) with hash marks (\\\\\\\\\\) besides it, before moving into traditional angled parking spaces?
Also, ever notice how many morons PARK right over those hash marks?
HELLO, it's ILLEGAL!
Those hash marks delineate a NO PARKING zone!
Those are specially designed parking spaces for wheelchair lift-equipped vans, which REQUIRE 10 feet of clearance behind them to allow the handicapped guest to enter or exit the van.
Contrary to the opinion of many people who TRY (and failing, I might add) to "rationalize" (do I sense some "sour grapes," as Aesop would say?) their illegal parking, "Well, if such and such store/shopping mall didn't draw the lines that way and did all angled parking, there'd be easily another 4 or 5 parking spaces for us with disabled parking placards."
Do you think such and such store or shopping mall did it to inconveniece YOU?
Are you really that fucking arrogant, self-centered, and egotistic to believe that the world revolves around YOU?
No, they place them there because it's the LAW.
Those parking spaces are required by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). Any newly built or significantly remodelled business in the past few years MUST have those spaces OR they will NOT get their business plans approved by the appropriate municipalities.
Yet, EVERY day, I see it and can only shake my head.
If only my employer would let me call the cops on the morons.
They say it's not their job to monitor parking lot compliance.
::shakes head some more::
If they get ticketed for illegal parking, they'll think twice before doing it again.
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