Yesterday I drove my wife into Carlisle so that she could catch a train to North Wales to visit her mother. The station forecourt is very small and regular parking spaces are invariably taken. Because she has limited mobility my wife has a disabled sticker for the car and we can usually find a slot in one of the disabled parking spaces provided.
Yesterday all but one were already taken by people displaying valid disabled stickers. The remaining one was occupied by a paramedic (he was sat in the car messing with his mobile phone) and when I challenged the guy he told me he had permission to be there.
Why is it, wherevever you go, if any parking space is going to re-allocated to another purpose - usually builders skips (paramedics on stand-by is a new one on me) - it is always a disabled parking space. It's bad enough that the ignorant able bodied take advantage but that the owners of the parking areas should do so too is unacceptable.
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