Hybrid versus Handicap - Soldier posts video and gets results

A video posted on Youtube.com shows hybrid vehicles being allowed to park closer than wounded service members living at the Warrior Transition Unit (WTU).

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kployhar - 5/15/2012 11:58 AM
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Just to clarify, the truck with the Flex Fuel is a double amputee, who has two prosthetic legs (he deserves the spot). The reporter is no Neophyte, she actually did a wonderful job, and I felt she was extremely sincere and empathetic to the situation here. The situation didn't require much thinking for me to look at it and decide it didn't make sense. Of course, this has been an issue for some time here. Certainly I am not the first to point it our, but the video I made ran around the world pretty fast. I do not even know who sent it to the media, but thanks to who ever did. So remember, "its nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice." Just be objective in your comments. The reporter used her position to solve a problem and I thank her for that. Everyone should do the same.

Metal70s - 5/15/2012 10:27 AM
1 Vote
It appears that the same 'TARD squad that designed the parking layout at the WTU worked it's magic at the airport, also. By placing charging stations for electric cars in the handicap parking spaces in the garage. If just one person needing the space is blocked by an electric car with an able body driver, I hope the suits fly! Morons...

peaches - 5/15/2012 7:26 AM
2 Votes
"'Warrior Transition Unit'. Wow, what a name. Bet even those that were with logistics companies are warriors.

Willow - 5/15/2012 6:34 AM
0 Votes
Handicap parking at FT Sam is a problem everywhere. The majority of the "handicapped" that park in these spaces are NOT mobility impared, but they will still park there and the ones who are actually in need of a closer parking spot because they can barely walk or not at all have to park a mile away from the building. It is ridiculous!!

JTrue67 - 5/14/2012 10:44 PM
1 Vote
Of course the wounded warriors deserve the best spots available, but another absurd aspect of the story, unnoticed by the neophyte reporter, was the fact that gas guzzling pick-up trucks and SUV's, under the false assumption that Flex fuel is anything approaching "hybrid," are parking in that spot. Leave it to the good ole boy system at Ft Sam to cheat the handicapped and the spirit of making the world a better place for our kids.
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