A grave parking situation

Crippled Monkey's esteemed blogging colleague Lady Bracknell tracked down an extraordinary story from Denver, Colorado. It seems that over there, an investigation by a local TV station has discovered that many of the disabled parking spaces located outside local homes are in fact assigned to people who have passed away. Decased. Dead. Thus, they no longer need the parking spaces (well, obviously) but their relatives have somehow 'forgotten' to declare the family member's, er, no-longer-living status.

Well, that's one way to secure yourself a disabled parking bay for eternity, I guess.