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Fury over parking misuse at Tesco




A Sandwick mother has hit out at drivers who hog parent and children and disabled parking spaces at Tesco and other locations in Lerwick.



Louise Halcrow


Louise Halcrow, whose children are Isaac, aged two, and Jessica, six, was so incensed by people using the parking spaces, which are supposed to be there for the convenience of families with children under five, that she took her complaint to the Shet Mams Facebook page on Sun­day, winning a host of messages of support and 91 “likes” in the space of 24 hours.

Ms Halcrow has been “slightly overwhelmed” by the response which has included calls for a petition and for Shet Mums to set up their own volunteer policing scheme.

There are around 25 family and disabled parking spaces, all with extra room for getting in and out of cars, at the South Road store.

The disabled spaces outside the Royal Bank on Commercial Street were also identified as a parking area ripe for abuse by able-bodied drivers.

Ms Halcrow wrote: “I think its a damn disgrace that folk still insist on making families struggle with small children at Tesco in this horrible weather while those lazy buggers park in the child spaces. We sat in our car tonight and four consecutive cars left the child spaces with no children. I think something needs to be done about this.”

Her Facebook post has yielded dozens of replies “all in support” from “a lot of other angry mams” and sparked calls for a petition to be put to Tesco. Other mothers have called for Tesco to police the car park and suggested Tesco staff should ticket offenders’ cars.

Another had complained to Tesco but had been told that as it was not against the law for anyone to use the parent and child spaces, all the supermarket staff could do was “politely educate” drivers.

Tesco deputy manager Mark Jamieson said that one of the store’s assistant managers, Jaime Carr, was already “looking at that” and had been moving improperly parked cars on. But he added that he had not heard from Ms Halcrow and was unaware of any complaints from customers about the issue.

Mr Carr said there was a problem with mis-parking at Tesco and that staff were doing “a bit of self-policing”. The worst area was the turning place beside the cash mach­ines in which customers sometimes parked.

Ms Halcrow told The Shetland Times that she had seen “young guys” parking up in the family spaces to go in for drink and had challenged various drivers who appeared to be wrongly parking in the family spaces, with mixed responses.

“I have knocked on windows and said ‘I think you have forgotten your children today’. Some people move on and others would rather give you abuse.”

Another mother wrote on Face­book how she had “got a mouthful of abuse and some terrible name calling” from “two young boys on a beer run”. She was so upset she could not face going into Tescos with her children and went home instead.

According to Ms Halcrow, the main culprits are vans and vehicles owned by trades people and taxi drivers who are nipping in for sandwiches or to the bank.

She added: “It makes life a whole different ball game when you have somewhere safe to park. It makes it a whole lot better for folk with young children.”

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2013/11/ ... -at-tesco/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

OMFG Some people seriously need to get a fvcking life.

Waste of money and unenforceable.

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Grandad,

Where was your car parked whilst you were carrying out this obsevation? Was it in one of the cherrished family spaces thus stopping another family from using the space to shop? Or was it in one of the standard spaces close to the family spaces thus forcing ordinary shoppers to either walk further than they otherwise would have had to walk or use the family spaces?

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Grandad,

I notice that in the article she mentions observing 4 cars with people pulling out and then makes the above statement about vans and taxis Oh what a surprise blame the favourite "Bete noir" of the average motorist I bet if you filmed for a couple of hours the majority of the abusers would be ordinary car drivers but that doesn't sell the story does it.

And as for enforcement you can't as tesco's themselves state you can only EDUCATE

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

She must be following them intothe shop as well if she knows what they are doing once they are inside the store. I bet she soon starts receiving some "other" replies on facebook soon.

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Grandad,

91 “likes” in the space of 24 hours.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Not much to get worked up about in Shetland

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It's get fechin near Impossible to get Parked Near a Tescos nor any supermarket these days...The Inner Parking sanctum is reserved for Blue Badge holders, the next nearest spaces (with enough room not to get your doors dented) goes to Parents and toddlers...the rest of us unfortunate plebs have to make do with a space half a mile from the stores entrance.

If any Supermarket so much as tried to Ticket me for Parking in the only available space, whether it be Parents and Toddlers or not, then that would be the last fechin penny I'd spend with them.

When my Kids were wee there were no such spaces but we shopped and the Kids got fed just the same........However did we manage?????>

I don't pay private tickets. They're not enforcable in Scotland.

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That sounds so wrong on several levels

They are not enforceable here either.

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Grandad,

Good.

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Haven't these people got nothing better to do? It's private land FFS.