HANDICAPPED ZONE If there's one thing I hate more than unauthorized cars parking in a HANDICAP zone, it's AUTHORIZED cars parking in a handicap zone when the driver is NOT handicapped. I see this with those hang-em-from-the-mirror blue handicapped cards meant for some other driver of the car. Usually you can tell that when the driver bounds from the car and skips merrily across the parking lot they are certainly NOT handicapped. But I could be wrong. Which reminds me of an incident I witnessed in a Baton Rouge parking lot. Someone had parked a non-handicapped sports car in a handicapped zone near a shopping mall. A van pulled up right next to the space. After a while the side door opened and a wheelchair was tightly wedged between the parked vehicles. A man with no legs then crawled around the van and pulled himself up into the chair, waiting patiently in the hot sun for the driver of the other car to return. After a while a sheepish 30-something businessman approached the car. Some words were exchanged and a crowd began to gather. I wandered up to the scene. The owner of the sports car was now trying to extricate the wheelchair. The van's owner had hopped down from the chair and had crawled to the curb on his hands. A half dozen folks were soon tugging on the wheelchair, which gouged large patches of paint off of BOTH vehicles as it was dragged to freedom. Afterwards, the legless man jotted down the sports car owner's insurance information and license tag number while the crowd looked on and shook their heads disdainfully. I'll bet that sports car driver will NEVER park in a handicapped zone again.