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Is the author of this piece the disabled police? People's disabilities don't have to be apparent by looking at them to be real. My dad probably doesn't look disabled but he has the lingering effects of the damage caused by a childhood ankle injury which became chronic and the surgery to make it better had the side effect of further limiting his ankle movement making walking much more difficult. He's ok if he walks a little bit but too much and he's out of commission and further aggravates the damage.

Someone with MS probably has limited mobility that isn't apparent as well.

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The purpose of handicapped spaces is to make it easier to physically disabled persons to get to where they're going. If you can hop out and sprint to the door, that space isn't for you (whether you have a legitimate placard or not), unless you're picking the person who owns the placard.

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> If you can hop out and sprint to the door, that space isn't for you

1) They author didn't say sprint, they said walk "briskly" or whatever.

2) How do you know? My dad's injury severely limits the distance he can travel on foot. He can move ok at the start of the day but he's only got a limited amount of steps in one day. If he has to walk across the parking lot then that's further limiting his day. He doctor says he's supposed to use it every day but not overuse it. His limitations don't seem to be very apparent (at least to me) because he's good about keeping within his limits.

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Did you read OP? His dad can do that. Once or twice. Then he won't. Or what about someone with am injury requiring minimizing the use of the leg to heal?