Only if they make parking spaces big enough for modern cars.

Also agree. My wife currently has a blue badge, which is a godsend because in the larger disabled spaces a) there's room for her to get in and out of the car, and b) less likelihood of some clumsy oaf hitting our car with their door whilst getting in or out.

The inadequate size of car parking spaces is just another aspect of the treatment of motorists as cash cows who are unworthy of any consideration except "how many of these mugs can we shoehorn into as tiny a space as possible".

You are lucky that the same oafs don't just use the disabled spaces because they are bigger (and mostly far neare to the shop or other building) so they don't have to bother parking properly.

Saying that, yesterday I came across a man at my local Tesco, displaying a blue badge in his VERY BADLY parked - wait for it - BMW i8 - managing qutie easily to clamber out of it (low slung and gull-wing doors etc) and strolling to the shop. Rather makes a mockery of the blue badge scheme (why would someone with limited mobility want to own a car like that?), especially for those people who actually need them.

Rather makes a mockery of the blue badge scheme (why would someone with limited mobility want to own a car like that?), especially for those people who actually need them.

Must admit that since she was given her badge, we've both become adept at spotting such oafs. You develop a talent for glancing surreptitiously onto the dashboards of those who use disabled spaces, just in case there's no badge on display and a requirement to shake one's head in disapproval, or if feeling REALLY brave, have a word.

Not so many of those oafs to be seen in our local council car parks, but loads outside the supermarkets, where some folks are presumably wearing a device that blows their legs off if they take more then 20 steps after getting out of their cars. Its the only possible explanation for what on the surface looks like sheer bone idleness.

When I suggested recently that the Blue Badge scheme was abused by either badge holders whose only disability was idleness or possibly relatives using the car many posters suggested that I was incorrect.

I realised some time ago that there is no point in having a word. After parking the driver will run away from the car at world record speed to either pay their idiot tax, buy fags or place/collect their bets.

How stupid do they think we are.

So many people in society just care about themselves these days - very sad.

This is just the same attitude Russians (e.g.Putin) have always taken. Do whatever you want to do, regardless, then lie through your teeth saying black is white until the cows come home. There will always be some to whom society's norms just don't apply - except as recipients of its advantages of course.

In which case it is threatening behaviour, if you have a witness to the offer to come out into the street the bloke is in serious trouble.

In which case it is threatening behaviour, if you have a witness to the offer to come out into the street the bloke is in serious trouble.

I do, sadly for the law, it is my wife...BUT... van was moved and all quiet today except for shouting between themselves which, again sadly we can hear through the walls.So far in 2 and a bit years, loud parties, infrequently going on till late, but not said much as not often.. Had to build a 6' trellis fence at the front to stop the footballs wrecking swmbo's flower garden, had to have words about the football impressions left on my car...kids throwing uneaten sandwiches and sweetwrappers over the fence.. had to have words about the other next door neighbours metallic up and over garage door being used as a goalmouth, (boom boom!) now enough is enough,He was also silly enough to brag that he was fiddling the diesel for his previous employer,We are not going to rush into things, if it calms will be ok, but have another neighbour who hears the language too and who is a policewoman.

Somehow I doubt if the policewoman will get involved directly - there's a similar (though not so bad for the 'bad neighbour' issue as you're experiencing) issue on the development where I live with certain 'problem' households, parking and noise, and yet a fellow residents association director who is a police officer won't get involved (it doesn't help that we live on a non-adopted private road) because he doesn't want locals to know he's a copper (he works elsehwere in the county) - whether that's because he faers presonal retribution from such people or just everyone nearby going to him about problems with neighbours etc rather than the managing agent and/or the council, I don't know.

Needless to say, he doesn't like 'making waves' unless he's personally affected to a VERY high degree. You may find yours just 'puts up with it' or calls in a colleague 'anonymously' to 'have a word', which I suspect your neighbours may blame you for. As I have had to do, you need to be very careful in how you get involved with problem neighbours, as these idits often lie and complain to the police themselves and get genuinely good people who are fed up to the back teeth in trouble.

One neighbour of mine who I polietly asked to move their 2nd car off the development for parking in a visitor only space (we only have a few of those and rules to prohibit residents from doing so) so he could avoid being ticketed (we use a firm as it can get really bad, as we're near the local station) apparently took offence at this and his girlfriend said she would 'get the police involved' as I 'threatened him' and he was 'in tears' when he got home. All downright lies, which, luckily for me, I proved as I had used my mobile phone to record the previous conversation.

A rather sad endictment of today's society, where doing what's moral/ethical/right is penalised and people who break the rules (that are there for the benefit of all) are enabled and pandered to for various 'virtue-signalling' reasons.