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February 3, 2007
Chicago's Prime Parking For the Disabled Dead
Posted by Dave Blount at February 3, 2007 7:41 PM
One of the perks of qualifying as disabled is you get to take those prime parking places that usually sit empty as everyone else has to drive all over the neighborhood looking for a place to leave their car. While a few drivers are genuinely disabled, others are simply overweight, and would benefit from the exercise of walking across the parking lot like everyone else. Then there are those who aren't the least bit disabled, but who are related to someone who used to be disabled, back when they were alive.
In Chicago, once you've earned the prized "disabled" classification, the city will mark off a reserved parking space for you steps from your door. A Sun-Times investigation found that 260 of these reservations belonged to people who were dead. Often relatives were using the slots.
Considering Chicago's political history, the program might be intended to make it easier for dead people to drive to the polls to cast their reliable votes for Democrats.
On a tip from Bill V.
