I have a disability and want to smack these jerks with my cane.
Call the police non-emergency number and report someone in a handicapped parking spot that doesn’t have a hanger or tag. Look for Tow Truck numbers posted in the parking lot.
Hit them where it hurts. Their pocketbook, and having to figure out where their car is, how to get there, how to pay, etc… Don’t use illegal means when legal means are readily available, willing, and waiting.
Take a picture, and complain to the internet? IT’s simpler to take care of legally. Then post a pic of a cop writing them a ticket, or a tow truck hauling them away on the internet.
I mean, if someone did this to me in Minecraft, I would be highly tempted to remove their trailer hitch, and put it though their back window for them. Building a window in Minecraft takes a while. Got to mine the ore and such.
Window ore
“sand”
With a dealer tag on the vehicle, as well. This dillweed is specifically doing this because he believes he is untraceable due to not having a license plate.
Not that it’s necessarily the case here, but I destroyed my knee and had crutches etc for a while, and I just got a tag to hang from my mirror.
Someone walked up before I got out of the car yelling about how I can’t park there, and then I got out with my crutches and knee wheelie and pointed at the handicap tag on my rear-view mirror.
Again, probably not the case here, but I had that thing for about a month, and I caught a ton of dirty looks and stuff because people assumed all handicapped indicators are on license plates.
I hate citizens who play cops. To them I say: Unless you are the person looking at the X-rays and medical clipboard, you cannot make the judgement on what someone else is going through. If you are bugged by someone in the handicap parking space and didn’t even take the time to look over to see a sign on their vehicle, go talk to the manager in the building. Don’t target the person struggling to get out of their vehicle. That’s not your job.
OP is talking about the car in the yellow striped zone, which is not a parking space. It’s space reserved for ramps for the adjacent handicap parking spaces.
I should be very thankful that were I live, people rarely park on reserved spots and pretty much all shopping carts are being returned.
Laws should permit people with disabilities to legally scratch and dent the hell out of a vehicle parked like that.
There are certain behaviors I feel like should mean the perpetrator forfeits the protection of law. Parking in bike lanes is also one.
If I was on a jury where they were prosecuting someone for smashing up a car parked in the bike lane or handicap spot, I’d probably find not guilty.
Well, if someone was illegally parked in a bike lane and their car was hit by a cyclist, what legal protection would they have? I’d say zero. 😄
Ever seen what firefighters do to a car parked in front of a hydrant they need? Handicapped people should take note.
We live in a society, and all must do our part to enforce the social contract.
It should be legal for anyone to key the shit out of cars that park like this
Remember kids, if you see a guy in a wheelchair keying a car…go help. He can’t reach up high.
Schrader valves can be easily removed with a cheap tool. The valve cores aren’t expensive, but remove one on 2 wheels, and they aren’t going anywhere and won’t actually cause damage.
You should always travel with a baseball bat and a shot gun for exactly this scenario. Some lives don’t matter.
(Sarcasm…I guess)
Food delivery (e.g. Uber) vehicles that park in disabled parking spots make me so angry. I’m always tempted to steal their license plates.
Fun story time that, for legal reasons, is a complete fabrication:
Was going food shopping one weekend. No smaller carts inside so walked out and went to one of the drop offs to grab one. On the way back, I see someone put their car into reverse from the “ramp”. Some people stop and wait for them to leave. I just keep walking and pushing my cart while considering my speed “just in case”.
They IMMEDIATELY peel out and smash into the cart. It goes under their tire and rips off most of the bumper and pops their tire (which was fucking terrifying). They get out and start screaming at me and threatening to call the cops and kick my ass. I explain “So… you are going to call the cops and explain to them you didn’t look when backing up from an illegal parking space and hit a pedestrian? I’m in a bit of a rush but I guess I can stick around for that”. Lady who was trying to get her walker out of her car even volunteers to be a witness.
Had a good old laugh and walked to get a new cart. They were still there freaking out when I left the store.
Did everybody clap?
You’re one of my new favorite people.
Allegedlys.
Allegediddlydoo
Has it become legal in America to park in the fire lane in front of shopping centers? Last couple years most of them around me are just full of cars.
Apparently it’s legal here as long as the drive puts on their hazard lights.
In fact everywhere in the states apparently it’s safe to park if you just put on your hazards now.
Under normal circumstances, the parking lot is private property, meaning that police do not have jurisdiction there regarding parking or traffic. In other words, you can’t get a ticket in a parking lot. Unless the property owner has requested that the police patrol the lot and write tickets, and the police agree to do so, and are allowed to (or not disallowed) by local ordinance. That’s going to be pretty rare, though.
In cases like yours, and OP’s, the resolution is for the owner of the parking lot to have the vehicle(s) towed. At a standalone store, the store is not going to be eager to anger a customer by towing their car. At a strip mall, the operators of the stores probably do not also own the parking lot, and so wouldn’t have the power to tow.
I’ve seen multiple idiots, some entitled, some clueless that parked in the loading areas thinking it was okay because they’re “not taking a handicapped spot”
I’m disabled, but I can still walk. The entitlement boils my blood too.
The yellow lined area is not a parking space. The space is left open for ramps on vehicles that need an extra side space to get in and out of and extend the ramp.
The yellow lined area is not a parking space
I know, that’s why I said “loading area” when referring to that space.
I work for DIDDs full time and let me tell you, my favorite incident so far driving my two disabled ladies around was the time where, in a very obviously for-the-transport-of-wheelchairs van, we got cut off… in their church parking lot.
I still laugh about it. “Did I just get cut off… in a handicapped vehicle… in a church parking lot? Okay. Alright. Let’s see where that gets you.”
Devils advocate, how do you know they’re not disabled?
I seldom take my grandmother to the shops because she’s adamant we go in person and I don’t have a disabled sticker on my car.
I will park in the disabled spot anyway because she needs a fucking wheelchair.
Be careful whos cars you vandalise kids, you better be absolutely fucking sure because I would go ape shit at you.
The white car isn’t parked in a disabled spot. Its parked in front of the ramp for a wheelchair, which isn’t a space
judging from the plates its also a dealer car or at least not street legal
I would get so much satisfaction seeing it towed.
