I have my own private theory as to why it is happening so early. Bush know we are going to receive a tax rebate, and they have devised a plan to alleviate the government's need to mail this bonanza to the taxpayer by funneling it directly to the oil companies and energy providers. The silence you hear coming from the Bush camp on the subject of releasing some of the reserve is deafening. Handicapped parking permits are not transferable. When the person whose name they are issued in dies, the permits should be turned into the town or city hall where they were issued.
Police can remove illegally used permits from one's possession.
That woman could have walked from a regular parking spot like other able-bodied people, all the while thanking her lucky stars that she doesn't need handicapped parking provisions.