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In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators

Posted by timothy on from the allocation-problems dept.

cylonlover writes "What does it mean when a parking spot is marked with a wheelchair symbol? If you answered, 'It means I can park there as long as I'm going to be quick,' you're wrong — yet you're also far from alone. Every day in parking lots all over the world, non-disabled drivers regularly use spaces clearly reserved for the handicapped. They often get away with it, too, unless an attendant happens to check while their vehicle is parked there. Thanks to technology recently developed by New Zealand's Car Parking Technologies (CPT), however, those attendants could soon be notified the instant that a handicapped spot is improperly occupied."

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  1. Steve Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing Steve Jobs (infamous handicap parking spot taker) is gone before this could come to the states.

    1. Re:Steve Jobs by TheLink · · Score: 4, Funny

      Steve Jobs was born with an impaired conscience you insensitive clod!

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    2. Re:Steve Jobs by jamesh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Didn't that just stop him getting identified? They could still clamp his wheels.

      A few anonymous calls to the police like "I saw some guys of middle eastern appearance get out of this car, unscrew the number plates, and drive off really fast in another car" would take care of the problem pretty quickly.

    3. Re:Steve Jobs by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you would get fired from apple over a parking spot?

      Having "Got Steve Jobs car impounded" would go down quite well on a resume at a few potential employers I think :)

    4. Re:Steve Jobs by mortonda · · Score: 4, Funny

      I see people parking illegally all the time. Even when there is legal parking just a few spaces away. I'm lucky, I can walk a little ways (in spite of the severe pain.) There are many who are wheelchair bound who need the special large parking spaces to exit their vehicles.

      At a local school, someone came up with a solution when the handicap spot was inappropriately used: They simply parked in the street right behind the car, trapping them in. The idiot had to sit there until the fellow with the handicap sticker got back and left. :D

  2. Re:not haveing a electronic tag = improperly occup by rohan972 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's only going to become a problem in phase 2 when sharp spikes leap out of the ground and puncture the tyres of cars without an electronic tag.

    No need to go for the tyres, go for the feet. That way, you know they are now disabled, no need for a ticket.

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  3. Re:P&T on handicapped parking by reboot246 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The other day I caught a handicapped person parking in one of OUR parking spaces, and I beat the shit out of him.

    Just kidding. I've been unable to walk without difficulty (before my hip replacements), and those handicap spaces were a godsend. Stay out of them if you don't need them!

  4. Re:P&T on handicapped parking by Smauler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be so quick to judge, unless you've walked a mile on my crutches.

    First they steal your parking space, then you're giving them permission to take your crutches?!