See that photo? This is today as in just a little while ago in Malvern Borough. In their parking lot.

This white Tesla is not showing a handicap tag or a handicap placard, but they just took two handicap parking spaces so they could run into the building and then come out. The parking lot isn’t jammed. Far from it.

Two days ago it was a blue Tesla. Again Malvern Borough, two spots. Two handicapped spots. The person who sent me the photo at the time told me they sat there and watched literally as two people got out of the Tesla, and “jogged” into the building. No handicap tag, paper temporary tag, or handicap hanging placard.

So is this another Tesla ignorance thing? I say a Tesla ignorance thing, because personally near where I live, I have seen a particular white Tesla run the light at a VERY problematic four way intersection instead of coming to a stop when the light is turning. so is this behavioral characteristics of people who buy the car or just plain old, ordinary ignorance?

And then you just have to wonder about Malvern Borough. Do they have security cameras that watch the parking lot? I do know for a fact that the person who took the photos has turned them over to the police department there. So my suggestion to Malvern would be if they don’t have a security camera that is trained on handicap spots, they might want to add one. That way those not entitled to handicap parking can pay for their privilege and misplaced sense of entitlement.

Obviously, something needs to be done if you’re seeing this in the same parking lot within two days of each other. Maybe once you could say it was a mistake, but with the second one in the same week, it’s like it’s a pattern isn’t it?

It’s not necessarily particularly easy to get a handicap hanging placard, or a handicap plate. I remember years ago when I lived on the Main Line I had a neighbor next-door, who literally kept his mother’s handicap placard for years after she was dead. He had no handicap, but he kept it so he could get parking spaces where he wanted. It was appalling.

Eventually, my neighbor from years ago got caught because there was one time when he parked somewhere and I forget what he was driving at the time (he used to like fancier cars), and anyway wherever he was he had not only parked in a handicap spot, but he wasn’t particularly neat about his parking, so he was partially in another spot, and his plates got run along with the handicap hangtag in his rearview mirror. Let’s just say it was like the PennDOT version of the cuffs don’t match the collar.

I also remember when someone I once knew became more ill with cancer, and they had to go through the hoops to get a handicap hanging placard because it made it easier for the person and person driving them getting in and out of a car and into places after a while. I also remember how offensive it was when they would be going to park somewhere and getting ready to pull into a handicap spot with the handicap tag in full display and somebody without any handicap tags would just steal the spot.

Another place where I see people doing this all the time is in the center of Wayne on N. Wayne Ave. Some of the rather entitled, nouveau Main Liners think that the handicap spots are for their convenience…along with taking multiple spots at a time.

Anyway, don’t be jerks out there. Please leave the handicap spots for the people who actually need them. And if you’re familiar with Malvern Borough you know that because the library is in the same place with the township building, etc. that there are a lot of senior citizens, who go there to use the library who are entitled to those spots.

Thanks for stopping by.