If you illegally park in a disabled spot, pray my dad and his free time don't find you

ehrensw · 1 year

Just a note to everyone - PLEASE be absolutely sure that the person doesn't have a handicapped tag before you harass them, don't just go by whether they "look handicapped".

I had to grow up with my mother (who had a serious condition that made it impossible for her to stand for extended periods without excruciating pain), seeing her get constantly yelled at by assholes in wheelchairs assuming she wasn't "one of them" because her disability wasn't obvious. It really, really sucked. Just use discretion, is all.

ddrt · 1 year

I worked at target for a while (it sucked). One day a woman sped into the parking lot, parked in a handicapped spot and ran inside really quickly. I was out helping the cart guy and by the time we were done (an hour later) I realized that it was not a quick trip inside and back out. I noticed she didn't have a handicapped license plate and knowing that my mother had a handicapped rear-view mirror hanger without a handicapped license plate I looked inside the car. No hanger in sight. I went inside, notified my leaders and they called the cops. Later, when I went back out to help the cart guy again, the woman was still arguing with the cops and telling them she'd only been there for a minute. So, what did I do? I walked on over and said "Lady, I saw you speed into this parking lot almost two hours ago and run inside." The ticket ripped off the pad so fast she couldn't say a thing.

tomstimpy · 1 year

Slightly off topic but I think relevant.

There are 4-15 minute parking spots in front of the gym that I workout at.....I believe they are for deliveries. People fight to get those spots because they are so close to the entrance. You're at the friggin gym.....walk an extra 20 feet, call it part of your workout!!!

RandomObserver · 1 year

Well after reading this I have a story that Reddit might find enjoyable. So the other day my friend was driving down the aisle at Target looking for a parking spot. Another guy driving in a brand new Mercedes CLK 550 was going down the same aisle in the wrong direction. So my friend sees a spot and pulls into it just before the Mercedes. The guys in the Mercedes gets out and he is just a huge meat bad douche and starts commanding my friend to move his car. My friends is like its just a parking spot and you were going down the aisle the wrong direction anyways. This guy just keeps on saying move your car get your car out of the way. All of the sudden we hear this BOOOOM. Some lady had backed into this guys car and completely fucked it up. He was distraught after seeing his new Mercedes smashed up. My friend, with a smile on his face, said; you know what you earned this spot, I want you to have it. So we backed out and we actually found a spot right up front. We were laughing about it all day. Karma is a bitch sometimes. HAHA

joebleaux · 1 year

I know a woman who has handicapped tags, but her disabilities all arise from the fact that she is massively fat. And not like "I have a glandular problem" fat, more like "I had an extra large peanut butter and chocolate smoothie with and extra shot of chocolate and also a shot of fat burner so that makes it healthy for breakfast" fat (yes, that is a real thing she did). She used to eat 6 pieces of fried chicken and the family sized mashed potatos from Popeyes for lunch with a Diet Coke. She pitched a fit when someone parked in her handicapped spot one day at the office. Someone who controlled their pedals with hand controls. The office got her a special chair because she broke 3 o the regular ones. They got her a special keyboard because her hands couldn't come together well enough (because she was so wide) to type on a normal keyboard. She got out of all sorts of work she didn't want to do because she was diabled, but it was all her own doing.

Brank_Manderbeak · 1 year

Can I call your dad the Handicaptain?

Jruff · 1 year

When I park in a busy parking lot, I always park far away from the store, as close as possible to the exit from the parking lot. While other people are busy cruising for that sweet spot, I'm already in the store after my short walk. I always watch the car that comes in right before I do, and without fail, I make it into the store faster than the people that try to get the really good parking spots.

As a bonus, I am able to get out the parking lot sooner, and there is a much smaller chance of getting into an accident.

rougepanther · 1 year

My dad is handicapped, and sometimes I'll drive him to town. Even if we forget to take the placard (handicap tag), I'll still park in the handicap spot. I hope that one day your dad does this to us, then your dad and my dad could fight, and it would be an awesome cripple fight, and you and I could have popcorn and watch the entertainment, then we all would go out for beers.

the_s · 1 year

I once had a job working in a large retail store and this problem was rampant. Fortunately, the police station was across the street from the huge parking lot. One day the oldest, fattest cop on the force decided to make it his mission to put a stop to it. He would hide his car behind a dumpster and wait with binoculars for people to park in the handicapped spaces. He would then block their cars and wait for them to come out (reading the newspaper or napping presumably). This wasn't an occasional thing. He was there about 5 hours per day, five days per week. I got a lot of satisfaction from seeing this day after day.

smart_ass · 1 year

A coworker of mine was a paraplegic, from a car accident. She had a smallish mini-van with an auto sliding door and fold out ramp. She has gotten used to hitting the remote early to have it down when she gets there in her electric wheelchair. It makes a loud beeping sound before it opens and it goes pretty slow.

A jackass had parked in the handicapped blue hashed area that was made for ramp access. It is almost as big as a space and fit his little car with barely room to spare.

Well, she hit the remote. The door opened. But she could see the ramp having an issue. So she hit the remote a few times while rolling there. Since she had driven us to lunch, we were all walking and talking along with her.

When we got there, this little rice burner has some serious damage to the doors. We were laughing our asses off. Since we had to wait for him to grace us with his presence, we waited.

Occasionally, she said. "Wonder if it will work now?" Bam. "Nope, still broken. Weird. It worked earlier."

She gave him the option to call the Police for an accident report, if he wanted. She also mentioned that this happened once in the past and the damages were ruled to be the result of the illegal parking and not due to negligence of the handicapped driver assuming no car would be there. She also mentioned that he would get stuck with a multiple hundred dollar ticket.

He said "F-you" to which she replied, "I have serious doubts of you being able to satisfy a real woman."

Best lunch ever.

(Edit: fixed some stupid grammatical errors. Probably not all of them.)

knightricer · 1 year

As a disabled person, I applaud your dad. I printed cards that say "Stupidity doesn't count" with a warning that they could get fined or towed. First time they get the card, second time the local cops get a tip about some quick ticket revenue. There was a certain SUV that loved to park in my handicap spot at my apartment complex (the spot was put in specifically at my request) without a placard or plates...It took 3 tickets and numerous visits from the complex management for them to stop parking there.

cosmomd · 1 year

When I was younger, my dad saw some guy park in a handicap spot as we were walking into a store. My dad asked the guy "Are you disabled?" The guy answered "No." "Do you want me to make you disabled?" my dad replied. The guy got back in the car and drove off.

CallMeMoot · 1 year

My uncle has had multiple sclerosis for the last 40 years. He can still drive but that's about it. He has a hard time controlling his legs, his right arm. He also has a hard time controlling his laughter. Something would cross his mind and he would start howling.

I was doing some remodeling for him a few years ago. We headed to the big-box hardware store and when he went to park, there was a truck taking up one of the handicap spots. The guy did a horrible job of parking (the truck was almost diagonal). My uncle started laughing uncontrollably. He finally caught his breath and I asked him what he was laughing at.

"That guy's handicap is that he can't park worth a crap!"

.... and he started laughing again :)

Deebag · 1 year

haha I would like to hear more of your father's escapades.

mith167 · 1 year

My grandmother broke her hip 3 months ago, and is just starting to be able to drive around and be able to walk with a cane. She is a strong willed Scottish woman and being immobile was bugging her. Back to the story: She goes to the grocery store the other day, and is waiting for someone in the handicap spot to finish backing out so she can park. This asshole coming the other direction swerves around the guy backing out and nabs the spot before my grams had a chance to pull in. He ends up being this young guy with NO handicap plate or mirror placard. She parks this dumbass in and gets out, goes up to his window and gives him hell about it. The guy gushes apologies and offers to back out and give her the spot. This is why I enjoy a beer with my grams.

craptastical214 · 1 year

Your dad is an amazing man, he's the only person I know who fights for justice by taking naps in his car.

I_divided_by_0- · 1 year

Just make sure he looks at the rear view mirror first. I have a hanging tag specifically for when I need to drive my grandma around (it's hers, it's in her purse) and I'll drop her off when I can and go park the car, but sometimes the weather isn't good enough to leave her outside, or we're at a park or some other circumstance.

Of course, I'm sure your dad would move if he saw me and my grandmother in her wheelchair, but I'm just sayin.

NoSalt · 1 year

Aaaaaaah ... retirement. I look forward to it myself. Kudos to your dad for teaching a self-important prick a valuable lesson.

SpeedTriple · 1 year

Your Dad is awesome.

I dated a girl whose stepfather was disabled. At the time our neighbor was a welfare hustler (paid section 8 rates but managed to afford a Lexus and Coach bags). She routinely parked in the sole handicapped spot, apparently unaware of why it exists. I left a note on her windshield, to which she responded by showing up at my door with two of her male friends, both much larger than I am.

Solution: I answered the door with my 120 pound Akita.

Dark_Crystal · 1 year

What I hate is when someone parks in a handicap spot, and they have either a marked license plate, or a placard and they don't look obviously disabled and people talk shit. A few people at my work do this after the fact. Well assholes, you know what, not everyone who is disabled enough to warrant that parking spot is obvious. Of course some people get them from shady doctors, and others barely qualify and don't "truly need" them. However, unless you are going to grow a pair and confront the person, STFU. Oh, thats right you don't want your ass handed to you when you inevitably make a mistake and some pissed off dude or gal puts their prosthetic foot to good use kicking your ass.

fermion72 · 1 year

First, I think it's awesome that your dad does this. I had an experience with a woman who was of the same mindset as your dad, but didn't realize when she was wrong. I had run to the supermarket during my lunch break, and as I drove up, I saw an empty spot that happened to be right next to a couple of handicapped spots. I parked there and got out of my car. Then, this woman walked up to me and screamed, "You're not handicapped!" I was taken aback and thought that maybe I had misread the sign and had indeed parked in a handicapped spot. But, I looked, and nope, I was in a standard spot. When I pointed this out the woman, she looked at me, snarled, turned her back and left.

kouhoutek · 1 year

It's never the piece of shit Caprice Classic from the 80s parked in those handicapped spots without a permit, either. It's always the Mercedes SUV, or the Lexus sedan. It's some rich fuck who doesn't care about the $350 fine.

infinityspiralsout · 1 year

The only time I have actually raged when driving was when I was taking my mother on some errands. I pulled into a convenience store parking lot with her handicapped placard hanging from the windshield. The lot was completely full, with the exception of the handicapped spot and one at the other end of the gas station. Right as I was actually pulling in to the spot, some fucking UGH pulled in and stole the spot. She didn't have a handicap sign or plate, and apparently was just running in. I was forced to park on the other side of the lot and walk my mother in.

Still pisses me right the fuck off today. Not only did she steal a parking spot, but a handicapped one, and I had to walk my crippled mother in the store. Fuckin' bitch, I swear to god.

ItsNotRocketSurgery · 1 year

I'd like to use your father's services, if possible. My neighbor parks in the handicap spot in my parking lot and then pulls the sign out of the ground and takes it in the house with him so that he wont get in trouble for parking there. Uhg, people piss me off.

dopameme · 1 year

i once saw a woman in a wheelchair slamming the hood of a car repeatedly with her cane. the car was illegally parked at the curb preventing her from crossing the street. she had quite an arm.

KornKob · 1 year

I hope your father never finds out I sometimes crap in the handicap toilets.

Foxivondembergen · 1 year

One day I caught one of those cripples parking in one of OUR spots.... I beat the living hell out of that guy...

gaoshan · 1 year

I wish he lived near me (N.E. Ohio) at the local Chinese school (pretty big) the folks seem to have trouble remembering that the handicap spots are off limits even if you are "just going to be there for a minute".

Generally, each Saturday (school day) as the lot fills and class time nears the handicap spots stand out more and more. Eventually someone will park there and last week I even saw some idiot park in the space between the spots! You know, the wide, area between that permits two cars to park and let out wheelchairs or what not at the same time? This person parked right in that spot so that the two cars with handicap tags (in itself a miracle as usually there will be at least one Lexus SUV with no tags hogging the closest spot) on either side had about a foot of space.

I have a buddy who is paralyzed from the waist down, and plays on a Murderball team, who will block cars in, wait for them to return and then get in their face until the police arrive. Could have used someone like that there.

LocationLockdown · 1 year

Kinda funny but maybe your dad is really lonely and just looking for someone to talk too.

Give him a call, let him know you care.

electricboogaloo · 1 year

The last time I took my mom out shopping all the handicapped spaces were taken. there was no way she could make it to the store from where we were able to find a space. She sighed, looked at her lap and said she wanted to go home. I was never able to get her to go out to a store again. If you park in a handicapped spot and you're not handicapped you are a piece of shit. No exceptions

traal · 1 year

I swear, when I retire or win a huge sum of money in a frivolous lawsuit, I am just going to walk the earth doing just this kind of thing. I'll block in illegal parkers. I'll stop on the side of the road to help women and useless men change their flat tires. I'll weave 75% of the way out into merging lanes so assholes can't pass up everyone else in a traffic jam and expect to merge when they get to the end.

"Amazing!" people will exclaim. "Did you see that? Who was that guy?"

"His name is WireQuoter," people's girlfriends will say, "he has a huge cock and is great in bed." Then my theme music will play. It's sung by Huey Lewis, and it has an awesome guitar solo.

EDIT: SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE MERGING THING. This post is not about merging. This post is about awesome people like shakin's dad who walk the earth and do good deeds and eat tacos and get laid whenever the fuck they want. Also, merge when the signs tell you to merge and stop harshing my boner.

red_foot · 1 year

Great lessons from great teachers.

shakeyjake · 1 year

I went to the Special Olympics and the the regular spots were 2 miles away!

Mikevercetti · 1 year

I don't mind parking far away from the door of a place at all personally. I'd much rather walk a bit farther and not take the risk of some retard slamming the door of their piece of shit car into my Mercedes. But my friends have some sort of compulsion with having to park as fucking close as possible to the door, and will circle around a lot several times, rechecking that there are no close spots, before finally relinquishing and parking far away. Irritates the shit out of me.

Rantingbeerjello · 1 year

Slightly relevant story.

Years ago I was taking my dad to an appointment at the hospital when he had trouble walking but had not gotten a handicapped tag yet. Now, this hospital is insanely unfriendly to drivers. There are two handicapped spots at the entrance and massive parking structure far away that costs like, 20 bucks to use.

So, I drop my dad at the door and go park illegal in a tow-away zone and sit there, ready to start circling the "lot" in case parking enforcement shows up.

Anyway, while I'm waiting I see some dude driving a fancy sports car by himself just whip into one of the handicapped spots and I'm thinking "What a fucking dick!" - He opens the car door, puts his travel mug on the roof....and then starts assembling his wheelchair in the driver's seat.

I felt pretty lousy for judging. Dude was actually too awesome, rather than a dick.

sepponearth · 1 year

Buy your father a drink from us.

pahncrd · 1 year

I'm betting that if a man just apologized, your dad would be cool with it, however "sorry" isn't in the vocabulary of the self centered sort of people that would do this.

TheBlasto · 1 year

I once saw a guy double-parked across a regular and disabled spot. He was sitting in the passenger seat as the driver was in getting something. I walked by and said, "Hey, man, come on, you can't do that."

He replied, "Aww man, she's just running in."

I said, "It's walgreens. EVERYONE is just running in."

realjimbo1 · 1 year

I'm seriously disabled. Have post-polio syndrome and it is progressive. Finally gave in to acquiring a handicapped placard about 5 years ago. Hate having to park in handicapped parking, but I can only expect to visit one store for about 20 minutes tops and using all my energy to get into the store means I would just have to go right back out to the car to rest if I didn't use handicapped parking. I go to the gym to try to "push back" the PPS. It only has 2 handicapped spaces, about which I constantly complain to the management. No matter, they don't legally have to add spaces so they don't.

I've been known to leave a note or two on mis-parked cars, just to speak out. Nothing threatening.

Able-bodied people really puzzle me. Why would they take a parking space from someone who really needs it?

betabob · 1 year

My way of dealing with someone who parks in a handicapped spot without a permit is to go to Home Depot and buy big sticky orange 12x12 signs, write a message like "Don't park in a handicapped spot asshole" and then stick it on his front window, sometimes the side if I'm in a good mood. Scraping it off sure must piss them off but it makes me smile every time I think about it ... like now.

Codeegirl · 1 year

I've done this to people who park in those spots before. I AM disabled, and those spots are NEEDED if you need the extra space to get your equipment out of the car. I consider it a hobby of mine ;)

I've just started taking pictures of people/buildings that are idiots.

http://imgur.com/a/2I3BY/shame

KorgRue · 1 year

I am a disabled vet with a physical need for handicapped parking. I have on occasion called the cops to ticket people illegally parked in handicap spots.

There are some rules of the road out there that might be considered trivial and could be overlooked when broken on occasion, but taking a handicapped spot from a disabled person because you are too lazy-fat-ignorant to walk an extra 100 feet is not excusable.

Edit: I wanted to add. While what your dad does might be amusing and in some regards, noble, it might be considered illegal if the person he is preventing from leaving decided to push the issue. It is known as false detainment in most jurisdictions because he is preventing them from using their vehicle to leave the area.

Whether or not it will hold up in court I can't say, but he might wind up in trouble if he does this to the wrong person and the cops find their hands tied over enforcement of the law.

eudyptes · 1 year

I was at the shopping center and a women in a BMW without handicapped plates pulls into the handicapped spot. When she gets out of the car I turned to my wife and, in a voice loud enough for the woman to hear, said, "Well, I suppose not being able to read is a handicap too." Boy did I get an evil glare...

redmeanshelp · 1 year

My father (leg off at the knee, wheelchair) tried to speak to an able-bodied jerk of the "I'm just here for 5 minutes" variety. The jerk knocked him over. Dad was unhurt, and was delighted that it had been witnessed and someone called the cops on his behalf.

[deleted] · 1 year

Brilliant!! Finally someone doing something not illegal. Beats my answer, I usually key the fucker.

kava · 1 year

At the dog park this weekend:

My friend had foot surgery awhile back and is still on crutches and it's painful to walk very far, so she has a temp handicap parking spot. I was meeting her there as a favor so I could interact/walk around with the dogs and she could just sit.

I got there first, glad that there was a handicap spot available for my friend. A 25 year old woman drives up, hops out of her van with permanent disabled plates and takes her two dogs into the park -- where she proceeds to JOG around the the perimeter for 30-40 minutes with her dogs. NOT disabled, obviously - and that just chapped my hide. The permanent plates were likely for a family member, but she was alone.

So before I left the park, I interrupted her jog and pretty much ranted to her, "Do you see that woman over there with the big cast on her foot and crutches? Yeah, SHE is the person you selfishly stole that parking spot from and who had to walk from the far side of the lot. Shame on you. Think about that next time you grab the handicap spot to go JOGGING. I'm guessing your permanent plates are for one of your family members who is truly disabled? How would you feel if you if you were with your family member who REALLY needed the the handicap spot and you watched as someone young, fit and able took the spot? Don't use it unless your disabled person is with you. That's just completely selfish, rude and wrong - there were plenty of other spots for you to take. YOU of all people should know better. Shame on you!"

She said, "oh. Sorry."

blackwidow98030 · 1 year

My husband is in a wheel chair and do you know how much damage a power chair can do to a paint job? We generally prefer the legal method of control in these situations which is alerting the police or security as the fines for this are good punishment. One day someone in our apartment complex decided it was a good idea to park his fancy new mustang, not in the handicap space, but in the lined space next to it! This made it impossible for my husband to get onto the sidewalk as this is where the ramp was, even though I was able to let him out of our van in the drive way instead of the parking space...it was late at night and when he left the space, he probably didn't even realize he had no license plates remaining on his car. I can imagine that was probably a much larger ticket!

In our case, it isn't that we need the handicap space because it is close to the door and sometimes we will park a long distance way and double park in two spaces to keep anyone from parking next to us in order to have room for the wheelchair ramp if the spaces are all full. But if we see someone in a space without a tag or license plate, it is really irritating.

libertao · 1 year

Wow reddit sure does love vigilantism.

brudnar · 1 year

I live in an area where 95% of the "handicapped" are just fat. I refer to these people as "fatticapped", and I feel that if they had to park further away, that the exercise would help them with their "disability". Being fat shouldn't be a disability, but rather an exercise in self-discipline.

Thwart · 1 year

If you throw a cigarette out your car window, and circumstances allow, I will get out of my car and put it, lit or not, under your windshield wiper.

meor · 1 year

So he illegally double-parked someone in to teach them a lesson about illegally parking?

nick632 · 1 year

A friend of mine's dad goes off on the guy who wants to see his receipt at Walmart and places. He'll actually ask for the manager and ask why he is being accused of shoplifting and that they should call the cops if there is problem.

He's like, "I'm old, that's the kind of thing I do for fun anymore." and laughs about it.

It's awesome.

norwegianrich · 1 year

my best friends father is a blue collar guy in a pipefitters union in New Jersey, he's a real true stand up guy because in his spare time he coaches handicapped/disabled (sorry i'm not good with political correctness) baseball in his spare time, one day he witnesses a visibly NOT disabled person get out of their car parked in a handicapped spot and enter a Starbucks and then notices someone trying to park there who has handicapped plates but has nowhere to go. he tells the handicapped person to take his spot which was close, and he double parks behind the person illegally parking in the handicapped spot. such an awesome guy.

skitzomix · 1 year

Somewhat related: my parents are deaf, but I am hearing. If my parents make any small transgression (i.e., cut someone off waiting in line, close the door without realizing someone was behind them, not respond to greeters at stores), people will make ridiculous remarks on how "rude" my parents are. I hear everything that was said. And when people finally see my whole family signing, they assume we are all deaf and that no one noticed the cruel comments - I heard and saw everything single thing you said or did. Please have a little respect and consideration; just because deaf people don't look deaf, doesn't mean they are less of a human being.

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