Editor
AUSTIN, Texas - Beginning tomorrow morning, anyone pulling into a public parking spot designated for the disabled better be disabled. Long a joke to most people who need these spaces, officials here have decided the laugh will now have a new punchline: a $511 fine.
Until now, those ticketed for violating the law were allowed to merely pay a $278 fine and be done with it. But critics of the old law enforcement practice charged that the police department never made the law a priority, that its officers rarely busted anyone not disabled. That will change today, says Mayor Lee Leffingwell.
The law applies equally to anyone driving or riding a car or motorcycle or bicycle.
For beginners, Austin says its officers will use the coming weeks to vigorously monitor disabled parking...
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22 comments:
Happens all the time here. Gordos y gordas parking where they're not supposed to park. Idiots!
Harlingen cops don't even bother with this parking stuff. heck, they abuse it. Good article.
if only people would be considerate. the disabled need these spaces. Duh.
That law is never enforced here. poor disabled people. I always make a face at the people i see taking those spots. I know they are healthy.
I agree. The disadbled gave no chance against the idiots. I see it all the time at walmart. Healthy people jumping out of SUV vehicles after they take a space like that.
I know people who have fake disabled stickers. They printed them off the internet. Morons.
I say, have the cars towed away, and them issue a citation.
In Harlingen, they had $10.000.000 dollars of uncollected fines. Then they passed an ordinance of towing cars away who had no insurance. But the cops felt sorry for the people and allowed them to go their merry way, and never towed a car away.
Mr. Editor, sounds like a feel good ordinance. I hope it works, up in the hill country.
John Voigt was kind of young back then, as was Dustin Hoffman. Good history lesson on movie actors. I saw that movie when I was in high school, brought back good memories.
Egypt is falling. Mubarak is gone. about time, I say. Adios, dictator.
Another example of how some people just go around doing bad. taking a parking space from the crippled is so wrong!
The only way, for some people to learn is by confiscating the vehicles. Some of these lawbreakers deserve no mercy.
If they want to be treated like criminals, than so be it. Screwed up people that have no feelings for anyone else, but themselves.
Patrick, Barry McQuire wrote a song called the eve of destruction. I would like to make a request. The conversation at the coffee shop this morning was about the middle East. Hosni Mubarak, has to come to terms and leave Egypt.
By the way, it was at Mi Rancho, in Harlingen, the food was really good. Hey, you guys are posting great articles, keep up the good work, and enjoy the sights, the pictures are really good.
A fine of $1,000 would be nice. These lawbrrakers have no heart. Disabled people need a break.
Good music appropriate for currrent global problems, to think that song was written in the 1960's. Well things haven't change in almost 50 years we are still fighting with one another.
Old old song. I was in the military back then. Good to hear it again. Thanks.
This song by Barry McGuire and Creedence Clearwater Revival helped me make it while I was in Nam. Great tunes. Many memories. thanks.
We are in the Eve of Destruction, the song writer hit it, right in the nail. Typical America, problems, problems all day long. Good protest music.
Confession from me. I parked in a disabled spot this past weekend, but I felt like Hell while i was in the store. Made mefeel stupid. Good story. Hope everybody leaves those places for people who need them.
My song back then was InnaGaddaDaVida. That song and a few beers saved me from suicide in Vietnam...still can hear it clearly.
Anon, don't feel guilty, just don't do it again. I couldn't imagine being disabled, and then having to walk.
Great song, I was in the military when, Credence Clear Water, The Buffalo Springfield, crosby still, nash and young, Barry McGuire, and Scott Mckinsey were pumping out protest songs.
That is so through, it was good music that kepted some of us sane.
Annon, who played innaGaddavida, was that the Iron butterfly. Just wondering.
At the way things are going, we might end up, as the song says. Destroying ourselfs
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