What to stick on his windscreen which wont come off easily? [OT]

Kids are self inflicted. Disability in general is not. Therefore, your kids can walk and make way for those who genuinely can't.

Make too much of a mess and YOU could be charged with criminal damage, even though it is a private car park. Sad but true.

Would your actions, (possible criminal damage) be representative of all the other 'residents'?

So the maintenance company is legally in a position to engage a licensed wheel clamping company to clamp unauthorised vehicles - why don't you get them to do that?

What GNKSA recommends is not the issue here. Cross posting, like this one, causes clutter and is irrelevant to many more readers.

Alan Gauton ( snipped-for-privacy@postmaster.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Absolutely.

However, if they're walking perfectly normally, there's no NEED for them to use a disabled slot, even if they do have some medical condition. The disabled slots are there for those who can't walk from the far end of the car park, or who need the extra width to open their doors more fully because of mobility problems.

Do you drag them round the store, letting them run wild and get in everybody's way?

No, but most can. And chose not to.

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Or a passenger. Trouble is, the badges are ridiculously easy to get hold of. When my wife's expired shortly after we moved to Telford we rang up the bod and explained, they sent a form which we completed and sent off £2 and a photo and back came the blue wossname. No checks on (in)validity at all.

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Trouble is, if you avoid any situation where the kids have to behave themselves then they'll never learn to behave themselves.

Of course, it might be nice if the parents of some little darlings actually gave a toss.

Alan Gauton ( snipped-for-privacy@postmaster.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

No, it tells you that somebody who *might* be an occupant of the car is disabled.

My M-i-L has MS and is in a wheelchair. We've not bothered to renew her old orange badge, but before it expired it lived in my car glovebox at all times.

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Doesn't have to be the driver. Passengers are just as entitled to hold a blue badge.

I am ther OP and I agree that I don't want to expose myself open to a revenge attack. We are in a small block of flats and it wouldn't be hard to ask all the residents who had done it.

So I just want to be "over-enthusiastic" with my adhesive. Not obviously causing trouble (heh!) but just making a simple mistake about how sticky it is.

Hmm, Solvite. That sounds good. Cheaper than the fancy adhesives too. I was thinking that I should use some really crappy paper so that the sheet left half itself when the driver driver tried to remove it.

I wonder if it as illegal as some people suggest. This is a vehicle (although it could be a wheelbarrow or a large oil drum as far as I care) which is on our property.

I want to leave a note for the owner. If my "over-enthusiastic" adhesive means they can't drive off without being a danger on the public roads then they should not take the vehicle from the private land it is on. They can leave it there until they have cleaned the vehicle's screen to roadworthy condition.

I am sure this is a better solution in the end than using superglue in their door lock or doing something as drastic as that.

I am the OP and those stickers sound just like what I am looking for!

Are they something I can buy? Of course I don't want a sticker which is not sticky enough! :-)

Grouch wrote on Fri, 20 May 2005 10:23:16 GMT:

You obviously don't. It isn't spam by any means, and 4 newsgroups isn't really even "excessive cross-posting".

In fact, it's a question posted to multiple groups with (admittedly rather tenuous) relevance to each of them. In other words, it's what usenet and crossposting was designed for.

Do you really beleive that anything posted to 4 newsgroups is spam? Why then, would it be possible to post to 4 newsgroups at a time?

More to the point, it isn't advertising something, it's asking a question.

Now this sounds rather nice. But who can guarantee a sunny day? And there is no McDonalds nearby but I reckon that something like brown sauce (or something similar) might do the trick if it hards enough to be essentially insoluble in windscreenwasher water.

Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yebbut, that was a renewal. Try getting a new one. My old man can't, despite being unable to walk very far at all, even with sticks.

The flats I live in are privately owned and so is our car park.

It seems to me to be pretty much the same thing as you living in a house and having your own car parking area next to the house.

Mary Fisher wrote on Fri, 20 May 2005 12:18:15 +0100:

Bollocks. Are people so dense they need smilies to appreciate humour?

Ever heard of deadpan humour?

But more to the point, it's not humour. I suspect he was serious, and regardless, he's right. Perhaps not every clamping company is as over-zealous, but there are numerous examples available through google...