Bizarre, International

Amputee Must Prove It Every Three Years to Keep Handicapped Parking Permit

Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger

It’s nice to see our government off the “Stupid Train” for once. Swedish officials continue to require Fredrik Jansson of Skelleftea to verify that he has trouble walking after his leg was surgically amputated ten years ago. Jansson who suffered the procedure as part of his bid to fight off bone cancer, finds the regulation ridiculous.  He is mandated to see a physician to verify the loss every three years.

A prosthetic leg is not an option as Jonasson doesn’t think he would be able to manage without a disabled parking permit  since he would have to carry shopping bags using crutches, and be forced to walk some distance to his car.

“It defies all common sense,” Jansson said. “I go down to Umea once every three years and have a doctor establish my leg is still gone.”

Skelleftea Traffic Administrator Annica Persson said the tests are necessary. “It is really difficult for us to judge these things and that is why we need the medical recommendation,” Persson said. She also claims there are a limited amount of disabled driver spaces and the government has to ensure that only qualified persons have the benefit.
 
All of which raises the interesting question about how might one such as Jannson “disqualify” for the benefit? I’m sure Jansson would give a lot to know.
 
Source:  UPI
 
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger

91 thoughts on “Amputee Must Prove It Every Three Years to Keep Handicapped Parking Permit”

  1. Tex has to apply every five years here in Ohio … his heart isn’t going to get any better but hey … somebody has to employee the bureaucrats.

  2. Roco, I have an ex-brother-in-law with an artificial leg. His god-given leg was amputated in a car accident and then reamputated in the hospital. This was 20 years ago or more. He eventually got a prosthetic leg and even learned to walk on it. However I was with him when he was trying to park in a handicapped space and another car whipped into the space. It had a handicapped sticker but the man who got out jumped out of his Hummer easily and ran into a store further up the hill. My brother in law got out of the car and fell into a traffic lane because of the uneven terrain. He says that the pain never goes away. The permits are not a competition between handicapped people but a permit for them to use. And not those of us who have the ability to walk easily. If the man who stole my b-i-laws parking space was disabled I’m sure it was for a mental disability, Roco sounds like you would easily qualify. Better run along now and get yours.

  3. Mike:

    I thought about that avenue but thought there would be more impact this way.

    By the way, in this country you have to have a doctor sign off on your condition periodically to make sure your condition hasnt changed. I would think this would be a legitimate use of government. If the guy could get a good leg and learn to use it, maybe he would not need a handicapped spot and those could be reserved for people who really need them. For example parents with wheelchair bound children, the elderly with bad hearts who have trouble walking more than a few steps, people who use wheelchairs and need the extra space to let their lifts down, you know people with more disabilities than this guy has.

    Where is your compassion Mike?

    But the real need is more handicapped spots for people with wheelchairs. This guy only needs a spot close to the door. So maybe the solution is to have both kinds of spots or wheelchair only spots.

    I am less fortunate than a lot of people, I dont want their pity or empathy or sympathy. Why should you figure people less fortunate than me want mine? Pity, empathy and sympathy are truly empty words. Once you have expressed your sympathy for the little boy or girl you see on the MD telethon once a year what do you do? Feel better because you can feel pity for their plight?

    If I was really bad off, I would much rather have Grossman for a friend than you. I would know Grossman liked me for me, with you and people like you I wouldnt know whether you liked me for me or because you could feel better about yourself for being my friend and showing how magnanimous and compassionate you were.

  4. And again we have a comment by one of our resident members of the Know-nothing party….

  5. “He probably also gets a government pension, if he does, he is a real pant load. He should be working instead of crying like a little candy ass because he has to get his gimpy self somewhere once every three years.”

    Roco,

    Your obtuseness is thrilling in that you never miss a chance into injecting your parsimonious political viewpoint into every discussion. Knowing your philosophy, had you been smart for once, you might have used this tale to illustrate the ill workings of government bureaucracy, since the man is legless and has to keep proving it. You couldn’t approach it with smarts though, you needed to take a cheap-shot at someone missing a leg, to justify your own pre-judgments of people less fortunate than you. Mespo is wrong, you and Grossman couldn’t be in Dickens works, because he would have found your character unbelievable in their complete lack of feelings for those less fortunate.

  6. Mespo:

    I bet it will be a good read, but please have some thoughts of your own and dont just fill it with quotes.

  7. Frankly:

    quite frankly it isnt an unwarranted cheap shot about socialized medicine. Go beyond wikipedia and look at the stats for waiting times for various procedures.

    If I could walk on one leg and a prosthetic, I would not be a whiny bitch and use a handicapped spot. The guy is a slacker and a cry baby, wa wa wa.

    He probably also gets a government pension, if he does, he is a real pant load. He should be working instead of crying like a little candy ass because he has to get his gimpy self somewhere once every three years.

    The guy is a terminal pussy.

  9. Roco you ignorant ass – I do volunteer work at the local VA and let me tell you about those miracle legs. Even when the vets can get one – its not a sure thing that they can get the high-tech ones because we don’t fund the program to meet the entire need we created (and the biggest impediment is “support the troops” assholes in Congress who have no problem creating vets but do see a problem keeping a promise to care for them) – even when they get one of those high-tech legs it is not a complete replacement for your two good legs. It is painful and cumbersome and sometimes they never do stop causing sores.

    But thats OK by you isn’t it, just so long as you can take an unwarranted cheap shot at a program that provides actual healthcare better than the US for less money than we spend, You don’t know shit about healthcare or about the consequences of artificial limbs. You are the perfect combination of arrogance and ignorance.

  10. Roco:

    Your compassionate is … well underwhelming. Maybe poor kids can curtail their food stamp payments by dumpster diving too. Every indignity is possible in your world. I would like to cast you as Marquis Evrémonde in my adaption of “A Tale of Two Cities.” I ‘ll call it ” a Tale of two Tails.”

  13. I think this is reasonable, the more you work that leg the stronger it will become, at some point you need to give the handicapped spot up to people in wheelchairs or who dont walk very well and need to use a walker or crutches.

    Why isnt he getting a “leg”? The vets have got fancy “legs” on which they can run. Why cant he get a modern device?

    maybe single payer in Sweden isnt all that good?

  14. eniobob,

    Must have….So, I suppose they are jealous that Billy Ray Valentine made it to the Duke Brothers exchange…

Comments are closed.