What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Sprinkler Fitter]

I have no idea the process, but you'd think that information like that should be available in their driver's license database.

Well, I said "should", not "would".

Our government and police never fail to stay well behind the times, when it comes to technology.

My wife’s handicap placard is temporary, six months only by the time they got the information it would be expired

 

[Oaktree]

Our government and police never fail to stay well behind the times, when it comes to technology.

I guess the same could be said for me...

 

[Gem99ultra]

We all see the problem and that is lack of integrety of the able bodied individuals misusing the purpose of handicapped placards. One truism is that anytime a good thing is applied there will be undesirables that find a way to misuse the benefit. The sad part is that those that abuse the handicap parking priviledge seem to immune to the fact that they themselves have a severe handicap, and that is lack of integrity. Laws and the enforcement of laws can't fix that.

 

[Camofurever1]

Not in Iowa.
If you park in a handicap parking spot, the name of the person on the handicap placard must be in the vehicle when it was parked there.

Huh......how exactly does that work? If a disabled person with permanent disabled license plates drives themselves to a business and parks themselves in a handicapped parking spot, how can they remain in the vehicle if they have to go inside a building and do business? What if someone else drove the handicapped person to the business and dropped them off, but you, as the driver of the vehicle, are picking them up? If I am picking my wife up at the hospital after she has been admitted for 2 weeks, we have a permanent handicapped license plate and she arrived at the hospital 2 weeks earlier by ambulance? I would say the state or local law enforcement has no legal authority to discriminate against the vehicle that is registered as a permanently disabled persons vehicle. They also cannot ask you what your disability is. I am sure the ADA would agree, also.

 

[Jstpssng]

It seems like the disregard for handicap zones is merely one indicator of the disregard for traffic laws in general. Everytime that I'm in town I see at least one person run a red light; sometimes two cars in a row. I've had two school buses on my dash cam running lights which were full green for the other way. If you drive the speed limit you are in the minority... I know that I tend to drive 5 over and constantly getting passed.

 

[lman]

I followed a School Bus about a week ago and it made two turns with no turn signal activated. I guess it's hard to find good help.

 

[bigtiller]

Huh......how exactly does that work? If a disabled person with permanent disabled license plates drives themselves to a business and parks themselves in a handicapped parking spot, how can they remain in the vehicle if they have to go inside a building and do business? What if someone else drove the handicapped person to the business and dropped them off, but you, as the driver of the vehicle, are picking them up? If I am picking my wife up at the hospital after she has been admitted for 2 weeks, we have a permanent handicapped license plate and she arrived at the hospital 2 weeks earlier by ambulance? I would say the state or local law enforcement has no legal authority to discriminate against the vehicle that is registered as a permanently disabled persons vehicle. They also cannot ask you what your disability is. I am sure the ADA would agree, also.

If you're picking your wife up at a hospital after she has been discharged, pick her up at the door you are told to. Don't make the nurse push her wheelchair all the way out to the handicap parking spot.

 

[WinterDeere]

I followed a School Bus about a week ago and it made two turns with no turn signal activated. I guess it's hard to find good help.

One of my friends was killed as a teen (30+ years ago), by a school bus that had a turn signal on, but then blew straight through an intersection instead of turning. It was her fault for trusting a turn signal, I remember that as one of the key lessons when learning to drive. But it appears school bus drivers failing to properly use turn signals is not a new problem.

 

[Oaktree]

If you park in a handicap parking spot, the name of the person on the handicap placard must be in the vehicle when it was parked there.

Huh......how exactly does that work? If a disabled person with permanent disabled license plates drives themselves to a business and parks themselves in a handicapped parking spot, how can they remain in the vehicle if they have to go inside a building and do business? What if someone else drove the handicapped person to the business and dropped them off, but you, as the driver of the vehicle, are picking them up?

I think what bigtiller was trying to say is that the owner of the placard/plates has to have been in the vehicle at the time it was parked. Doesn't mean they can't leave it once they're parked, just that someone else can't use a handicap spot with that vehicle if the owner isn't with them.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Here's a peeve:
Sitting in a booth in a restaurant and some 400+ pounder sitting on the other side thinks they're in a rocking chair or has to get up 12 times for buffet or bathroom trip waddles.
The whole time you're trying to eat it's like riding "Tornado" at the Calgary Stampede.