BlueBadgeBandits

Today's Tally

2007-06-06T12:23:00.000-07:00

Location: Liverpool Central Library [6 Disabled Bays available]
Time: 1300h

Vauhhall Vectra X278THH
Renault Clio M583YTJ
Citroen Xsara MK03 VHL
Rolls Royce BG56VGL I kid you NOT!!!
Ford focus P116NTE

5 out of 6 can't be bad!!

Location: ASDA, Breck Road
Time: 1700h

Focus PJ06KVG
Fiat Punto WN02AXO
MG Sports [GT] R457LFM
Ford Zetec DE56GRO
Ford Focus N954FRN
Ford Focus Y475MNM
Ford Focus MA51YHR
Fiat S450AWH
Ford Focus S502MBV
Ford Focus MD06FRJ
Daewoo W972YDM

5 + 11 = 16 @ £60 fixed penalty notices = almost £1000 in fines NOT collected!

Monday 4 June

2007-06-04T08:59:00.000-07:00

Today's Tally

Location: Breck Road ASDA, Liverpool
Time: c. 1600

Mondeo Y441MDM
Focus W56UGV
Focus FP05RHV
Peugeot MK56XJM
Focus V248VCW

Is there something about a Focus which appeals to really SELFISH drivers?

Or is it a car popular on the School Run - because I also saw half a dozen of the same model parked within crossing zigzags and on double-yellows outside a number of schools I drove past on the way home..... cynic, moi??

Take the weekend off ........

2007-06-03T13:12:00.001-07:00

Thanks, don't mind if I do! Pity the same can't be said for the ill-mannered, lazy SOBs who were and remain my main reason for setting up this Blog .... anyone who want to contribute, be my guest: I'm sure it isn't JUST something which happens here, where I happen to live!
I'm hearing from others who have reacted and felt moved to contact me directly, and bee given links to TV/newspaper stories about MPs, Pro Sportsmen (well, footballers, if they can still be called "sportsmen" in the LITERAL meaning of the word...) and other minor celebrities who have NO EXCUSE whatsoever for using Disabled facilities....

Back to Naming and Shaming tomorrow, I guess!

Today's tally

2007-06-01T11:12:00.000-07:00

Friday 1 June 2007

Location: LIDL, London Road Liverpool 11:30

Renault DG56TOY
Merc.Benz DE55LXJ

Location> ASDA, Breck Road Liverpool 18:00

Renault R631NRC
Citroen M117LNB
Clio YC52MYP
Renault S475BHJ
Renault SF52KMH
Citroen R483PAG
Clio PA04KXR
Ka MJ05ONP
Renault DE56HFS
Laguna BN52ZCX
[Dvr sleeping at wheel. Still there 1 hr later when I left]

Jaguar X-type MA02FHV
Dvr almost collided with me racing to get into bay before I could get to it. Then almost knocked over 2 pedestrians while shunting back & forth to straighten up. Still there 1 hr later when I left.

Ford Transit P144HGB
long walk from store entrance to Disabled Bay with trolley. Driver made 5 "round trips" with trolleys filled with Fosters lager (3x24 for £20 on special offer) and possibly FILLED van........

Should I get mad, or get EVEN???????

Thursday 31 May 2007

2007-05-31T16:50:00.000-07:00

Location: ASDA car park, Breck Road Liverpool
BlueBadgeBandits present @ 1600h

Vauxhall Vectra T827LAB
Vauxhall Astra S827MAB
Renault Megane T332LNE
Renault Clio PF05PKV
Fiat Punto DG05POA (frequent offender)
Lotus Bighorn K543AMG
4x4

These were just the ones I noticed walking from the FAR END of the car park, PAST the Disabled Bays and the ATMs en route for the main entrance to the store. I have no doubt that I missd a few, but this is a start!

♪ "Don't Step on my Blue Badge Shoes ..." ♪

2007-05-30T14:43:00.000-07:00

All aboard for my first blogspot 'rant'!!
After six months of arguing with Social Services et al. and having to write longer, angrier and more threatening letters each time, I was eventually awarded a Blue Badge for free Disabled Parking almost a month ago.

So far so good. I've seen my wife's mobility become ever more restricted almost every day for the last 4 years due to rapidly advancing arthritis, and being her full-time (unpaid) carer for all that time has had the effect of exascerbating the same condition in me - to the extent that I'm now on a waiting list to have BOTH hips replaced (provided the local NHS trust doesn't suddenly declare themselves bankrupt, and say that "All bets are Off")!!

But over the past month I've noticed just how many perfectly oiled, tanned and muscled drivers who DO NOT appear to possess a Blue Badge park their 4x4s, sports cars, people carriers etc in DISABLED BAYS at supermarkets, ATM machines, libraries, on double yellows, etc, etc .....

Furthermore, if you DARE to speak to them or ask if they happen to possess a Blue Badge or if they've simply "forgotten" to display it as required, you're almost certain to find yourself threatened with ABH or worse (I've tried it!)

Pointing this problem out to a passing PC (that's if you ever SEE one on foot patrol these days!) won't get you very far, either. They seem more interested in picking on OAPs who drop empty crisp packets on the floor (where they might, I suppose, create a potential hazard if they get stuck to the million tons of spat-out lumps of chewing gum: curiously, nobody knows how that got there either .....

Today I went to the Central Library in Liverpool for a meeting of local Creative Writers. I arrived in good time and saw that an elderly couple in their Renault Megane were sitting in a Disabled Bay but not attempting to get out of the car. Naturally I assumed that they were about to leave, and pulled up close by on a double yellow (which, as a Blue Badge Holder, I am allowed to do for a short while at least).

THIRTY MINUTES LATER, a car pulled away from the Disabled Bay ADJACENT to the one which was STILL occupied by the Megane and two passengers. As I pulled into the vacant bay Mr. & Mrs. Megane were JUST FINISHING EATING THEIR LUNCH .... and were NOT (surprise, surprise!!) displaying a Blue Badge.

I asked them if they possessed one, and AS USUAL got the height of abuse.

THEREFORE!!!
The sole purpose of this blog will be as follows.
In future, every time I see a vehicle which has been parked in a Disabled Space ANYWHERE in Liverpool I intend to "NAME AND SHAME" the owner by publishing the vehicle's MAKE AND REGISTRATION NUMBER, and hope I can persuade a significant number of others to do the same. If the police and/or local council officials won't help us reclaim the streets, perhaps it's time we DID IT OURSELVES!!!