Drivers caught parking in accessible spots without permits
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Traffic enforcement officers are looking out for drivers who try to take a short cut by illegally parking in an accessible space.
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The Doctors that help scammers get a handicap permit need to be dealt with also!
If you're just going to give warnings, then they'll just keep doing it...
I’d never let anyone use my disability permit.
And if someone borrowed your car and decided to use it without your knowledge, would you consider it fair that you lose the permit for some months?
Here's how that happens. You have a person who takes you everywhere you have to go. You put the permit in their glove box for convenience. You trust that they will never use it illegally...and there you are. It stinks.
@@theresabollman8061 i have a car and motorised wheelchair any where i need to go i go myself. I might be disabled but im very self sufficient.
@@theresabollman8061 If someone else is driving you to an appointment or store, they can drop you right at the door and then park the car, like wise on pickup. If you are driving or need special wheel chairs access then of course it's a different matter.
One small town I lived in the local cab firm would give reduced price rides to registered invalids, in their quite fare time. Depending on the length of stay, they would stay or come back for the return journey. They would often get another fare right there at the store and this helped in the discounts they gave.
"I didn't know it's not allowed." Sweetie, there's this little thing called COMMON SENSE
its not very common unfortunately
LOL right after she said "i never do that" so clearly she knew .... lmao
@@xTheRealKestrelx I think she meant in her own car, but it wouldn't surprise me if her mother encouraged her to use it.
My mother insists on using the bays, (she is entitled, and an able-bodied person accompanying her), when I drive her, even though I am quite happy to drop her off at the door and park elsewhere.
ROFLMHO
Common sense is not so common
I like how they act stupid when they get caught.
As a holder of a handicap permit I often can't park in a handicap spot because there are not enough. And then these jerks make it worse by taking up spots when they are not handicapped!
The worst ones are those who start acting like total a-holes when they get caught doing it (unless caught by a cop, of course).
Me too
@@crucisnh i DiDn'T kNoW!
@T Mox I'm handicapped but you should be arrested destroying folks property!,Someone may return the favor!.
I'm looking at having to get one this summer. I've been delaying it as long as possible. Thankfully I only have to use it when the sun is up.
I'd feel the same way.
It's amazing the excuses given by these people. Either admit it or don't do it!!
We need this enforcement in Dallas. I saw a guy with no tags doing repairs on his truck in handicapped at Walmart. They NEVER enforce Walmart parking lots anywhere.
Darling does not care at all.
👍 Am tired of these abusers !
Me too!!.
If you’re referring to the meter maids, I agree!
@@bobcostas5094 well if you can try at least you will get ticked for being an ass
@@bobcostas5094 meter maids only ticket the scumbags that don't follow the rules. Sounds like you are one of them.
Ive never had a shadow of an inkling to park in a handicapped spot.
I'm a mail carrier and even I don't park in handicapped spots. But many carriers do violate that rule.
Its because you learned your lesson from the Terminator.
When I was able to walk, I used to park way out at the edge or the parking lot and have a nice long walk to the store.
Keep in shape, and keep dents out of the car.
About time you should put tickets on all of them ...Make bigger fines.
1:05 "I never do that", except for this time. Which disputes the use of the word "never".
I knew a mom who had a daughter who was handicapped, but when the mother would carry her, it wasn't obvious. One day someone cussed her out for abusing the tag, even though she wasn't. Be careful when you are assuming what's valid or not.
Exactly.
Where I am you a disabled person can be accompanied by an able bodied person, so they might use the bay to drop them off and pick them up for an appointment, which means twice an able body person will be seen by themselves using the space.
Also, there is this myth that everybody needs to be in a wheelchair or have some obvious disability.
Plenty of people have lung diseases or heart problem that means they cannot, (or rather should not) walk long distances.
Often they are just given out to elderly people as they are simply less mobile.
@@Cheepchipsable Careful with that. Technically, you CAN get a ticket if the placard holder isn't entering/exiting the vehicle at the spot. If you're dropping them off, you're not supposed to use a disabled parking spot because YOU can walk. If they're not having to walk to the spot, you can be fined for using it. Now, if you drop them off and they walk back to the car or they leave the car in the spot and you go pick them up because they couldn't quite make it, then you're safe and could successfully dispute the ticket if you got one. If they're never getting in or out of the car as it's parked, that's trouble.
Love it when someone says, "that I was only in the store for a minute". Cop states "that OK it only takes 30 seconds for me to print out the ticket. So for that 1 minute,, it's going to cost you $400.00 plus whatever it was that you picked up in the store
Ah yes, the Moanlys. "Moanly picking up a newspaper." "Moanly gonna be a minute." Et cetera.
It's okay, they put the four-way flashers on! (Apparently the green hornets refer to them as "ticket-me flashers.")
Fine them $1000. and impound their vehicles for first offenders! Warnings mean nothing!
I love this sooooooo much. I could do that job all day long and love every minute of it.
You and me both, even though I can’t stand for very long. And have my own parking placards
I would do it for free just for the satisfaction of giving these jerk offs a $400 ticket !!
Ticket price should be $1,500.
@@ryanfriesen4366 Plus an atomic wedgie
My dad had a permit, and my mother never drove. When I would take my mom out, she would tell me to go ahead and park with the permit. I would NOT! LOL
I think they will give you a ticket if its not registered to your car
@@tonybanner2982 They sure do! In Florida, at least.
I was once offered $500 for my placard from a friend who lives in DC. He said the parking is THAT bad there! I declined his offer. 🙄🙄
Wish they'd enforce this at Walmart's. Especially parking along the red part of the side walks.
it is up the security they hire like at many grocery stores. They will hire retiring police officers to sit in a car and not enforce any parking violation. They need to get officers who do love their job and and enforce the parking laws.
NO warnings for this violation should ever be given.
And everyone of them that say they did not know they could not use it are lying 🤥
Thanks for looking in to this . My husband is wheelchair-bound .i can’t never find a parking space,. 🙏👍😢
Best video I've ever seen. Now perhaps we could have one of these gentleman for every grocery store now we're rockin'
ALSO....TOW THEIR CAR.....AND...THEY CANNOT GET THE CAR BACK UNTIL ....THEY GO TO COURT....AND....PAY ALL FINES!!!!!!
Tiger Steele I fully agree...and lock em up too!
YOU... SHOULD... GO... TO ... PRISON... For... WRITING.... LIKE... THIS..
@crappy firedog Your profile pic explains your idiotic post. 🤢🤮
I witness this heartless crime every day. Able bodied drivers knowingly parking in Disabled Bays with no permit or fraudulent ones. They have no idea of the upset and stress their cruel acts cause. Please continue to catch these menaces.
Are you sure, @Patrick Kavanaugh that they are not handicapped. There are disease that can damage the body in ways that is not seen. Heart disease, arthiritis, MS, polio, and many others that you cannot see with the eye. You can go ask them what their disability is to be able to park there. But there are abusers of the placard out there. Just don't assume everyone that can walk is not disabled. Some can't walk very far, and some cannot stand for very long. The invisible handicapps.
@@trekgirl65 Patrick said, specifically, "... parking in Disabled Bays with no permit or fraudulent ones ...." The people he's talking about are not disabled and don't bother with illegally using a placard. Those people flout the law and do so flagrantly.
All cars illegally parked in a handicapped space ought to be ticketed and towed immediately. That vehicle would be held in impound until the disposition of a future date ordered by the court. These are actions that police can take without new laws _if_ the law allows for offenders' vehicles can be towed, and _if_ the law does not specify a point in time when an impounded vehicle must be released from impound. Take away their cars for a while. That would be a strong disincentive.
Should tow the vehicle on the spot
Excuse me sir why are you parked here... "" cuz I got s***t for brains""... Fine of 5,000 and tow the car might work.
Well said,that is the answer ...
We pay for those placards. They are only for the person who it is issued to.
Fine Should be an immediate tow, a 30 day impound of the vehicle, and a $1,000 ticket.
My daughter is confined to a wheelchair and has a parking permit. A few months ago, I drove her to a doctor's appointment and I pulled up into the disabled parking space. As I was getting out of the drivers side to get her wheelchair out of the boot of the car, a taxi squeezed into the marked area next to my passenger side - blocking my daughter into our car. She waved the disabled parking badge through the window so that he would know what he was doing, but he ignored her and went to pick up his fare in the shop next to the surgery. It took all of my self restraint not to punch the inconsiderate scumbag, but I followed him into the shop and made sure everyone knew he was trapping my disabled daughter in our car - his fare looked embarrassed and quickly made her way to the taxi and they drove off.
Maybe you should have blocked the store's door to prevent the driver and his fare from leaving for a while and ask them how they liked getting blocked in and held hostage by some inconsiderate a-hole.
Years ago, I had trouble finding place to park in Walmart handicap spaces (I can walk 50 to 75 feet but no farther without a lot of pain). Recently until I have seen Walmart using a security company to enforce it. As a result, in the last few years, I haven't had a problem getting one open.
Right ON Walmart
Why did the parking enforcement officer let the guy off without citing him a ticket- every person in the whole United States and Canada knows not to park in a handicap parking spot ,,a 15 or 16 year old knows THAT
Omg go to our mall and there will be so many tickets written.
Leaving the driver off with just a warning is just as bad as as him parking in that spot.
Now THIS is the kind of "policing for profit" I could support! Keep it up.
There is no excuse. They should get a ticket IMMEDIATELY, no warnings, no ifs ands or buts!
Actually, once in a while, there are legit excuses. Maybe the handicapped passenger really is in the store. Maybe the driver forget that the placard he used was expired but he had the correct placard in his glovebox. (Saw this exact example in a youtube video.) You can't assume that the accused is guilty 100% of the time.
@@crucisnh All they have to do is show their permit card to get ticket thrown out.
I was sitting in my car in a handicap spot. My wife was in the store. Some dumb woman, accosted me and berated me for 20 minutes about parking there without a handicap parking placard.
After 25 minutes, the police showed up.
He did something that this nosy assed woman didn't bother doing..she should have looked at my license plate!! One look from the cop...and he berated her for a good 10 minutes...
Moral of the story...know your facts before you accuse.
TOW THEM ALL
It’s very frustrating when I see this and have to park farther away.
I have a handicap parking space in front of my house due to lung disease. Even with oxygen I struggle to breathe. I had to pay to have the sign place in front of my house along with a yearly fee. Three times this week alone random people have parked in my spot. When police come to fine them it is only a $50 ticket. I wish I lived in this town where fines total up to over a thousand dollars plus a tow. What kind of a deterrent is a $50 ticket ?!
As a disabled person, I have just about HAD it with this problem....the law is far too lenient on these people....I think it is mandatory that cars be TOWED each and every time, and fines should be so high that it REALLY becomes a deterrent to abuse parking in these spots !!!
The offenders should also have to appear before a judge. No just mailing in the fine. They should have to appear before a judge so that the judge can rip the offender to new one.
Right On another thing I hate I have seen girl friend and boy friend riding around in handi cap carts at Walmart Walmart should require a some proof or something
They should take the placard on the spot and have them reapply if they are truly handicapped.
They KNOW VERY WELL THEY CAN'T USE THEM..YOU SHOULDN'T TICKET ONE AND GIVE AN OTHER A WARNING.GIVE THEM ALL TICKETS DON'T PLAY FAVORITES
Well at least they were able to park correctly!
When my doctor signed for my parking placard he told me that I had earned it. Even though I have the placard, if I do not have it with me, I will not let my driver park in a handicap spot.
Why a warning? It's not the first time they did it!!
I don't know the exact parking/driving laws in Toronto but I do that this news lady is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!! She can be my next door neighbor anytime.
25 years ago I was sworn in as a SPC in Toronto by a Provincial Court Justice who explained that handicapped spaces were not there to save steps but for people who could not take any. Somehow it has become watered down to the point that it appears if you have a slight cough, your doctor will give you a permit. It's the doctors that appear to be the issue now.
What's the point of catching people in the act if you're just going to give them a warning? Do you think that they won't do it again? They will, mainly because it is highly unlikely that they'll be caught again. If this guy were hit with a $450 ticket, he would tell people about it and the word would get out. As it is, he gets to simply sneak away and do it again when it suits him.
@DJ S Another crybaby I see.
There's part of the problem, give the guy a "warning" instead of a ticket. The clear handicap parking only sign is the "warning". Give him a ticket so he learns his lesson, no exceptions. Better still, handicap violators should be towed.
I want that job sign me up
Another annoying situation is when the permit holder parks and sits in the vehicle, while a able person is in shopping. Shame on anyone who abuses this.
My parents have a handicap licence plate for my father
Need to INCREASE the fines, and ENFORCE them. 'I didn't know it's not allowed...' Well, now that we're taking your HOUSE, because you've failed to pay a fine of five thousand dollars, I'm sure you'll be more aware in future...
He’s driving a Hyundai
He can’t afford a $450 ticket
My Dad had a handicapped license plate on his vehicle because my mother was on dialysis and had to be taken to the hospital every other day for treatments. That involved getting her wheelchair out of the trunk and helping her in or out of the vehicle. My father also had heart disease and parkinson's and had to use a walker to get around. If my sister or myself took them for doctors appointments or my Mom to dialysis and used their car to transport them, we parked in the handicapped spot long enough to get them out of the car and into the building they were going to. Then the car was moved so that someone else with no one to help would be able to park in a handicap spot.
The only time we drove their car was to take one of them to a doctor appointment or a medical treatment.
Ticket and Tow and Suspend their driver's license and vehicle tags.
Shame they don't enforce this in UK.
100 percent service connected disabled American veteran here it just goes to show the fine is not high enough
Why are these penalties not used in the UK?
What always made me mad is somebody who takes the accessible parking space then *jumps* out of the driver's seat and start jogging, energetically, and pain free, to wherever they are going.
This happen to those family/expected mom parking slot too. People just take advantage to those needed for their own convenient.
The expectant mother spaces make sense but parking spaces for people with kids? Why should parents be allowed to inconvenience other people by having the best spaces reserved for them just because they have kids.
leviathan 0000
Those kids will be paying your pension and whiping your poopie butts, that is why.
The mom spots are nice but you can't get a ticket if you park in it.
Pregnancy is a choice. If someone else needs the spot they can take it if they wish. Accessible space abuse is a real issue.
Wiping.
There is no need to check credentials where a 1999 Buick Century is parked.
I could have used my late husband's plaque, but I returned it along with a copy of his death certificate.
$300 to $5000 dollars if that was my wife she'd be sleeping in the car.
Drivers cannot park in disabled spots unless they have someone with a physical disability and the parking permit it is registered to, they can be fined a whopping $450.
And the fine are much higher than that these days.
NOT ENOUGH!!!!!
NO WARNINGS!
Automatic heavy fine!
Caught lying. They know full well the rules.
I have a wheelchair accessible van. The city came out and put the concrete on the curb of the street , painted the space, and put a handicapped sign up. One day a car that did not have a disabled placard parked on 1/3 of the handicapped space. This caused a big problem for me as I didn’t have the concrete space to deploy the ramp. I got stuck in the van for 2 hrs until someone from outside use his muscles to manually open the ramp for me to get out. Please be considerate and don’t be a cheater.
Thien Thanh Why would you wait there for so long for help? Couldn’t you have pulled elsewhere in the parking lot to deploy your ramp and then located the vehicles owner? Don’t you have a phone you could have called someone to help you?
fine them high
more citations need to be given to more violators..........
Thank you! Total bs I didn’t know !
I would hand out $5000 tickets every time. Max penalty.
Possibly make offenders do some community services with handicap folks..... along with towing, & fines. Get SERIOUS about it. Could we get some courtesy cops at boat ramps- too ?
I thought the definition of parking is: Car is off and Driver is not present.
I wish they would do the same in Australia.
Stores need a few more handicapped spots. But police do need to do what these officers are doing. Crack down on abusers more often.
Bring a shredder and SHRED IT UP on the spot. From California of USA
Thank you...professional 😊 news
My mother has RA and has difficulty walking. I don't have a permit and I don't need one. What I do is I drop her off in front of the doors, so she has less of a distance to walk, then I go and park the car wherever I can and that is closest and then walk to the store.
It works better than using the disability parking.
And that's exactly what EVERYONE should do .....but there is a huge demographic who don't care about anyone else, don't care about rules, regulations, laws.
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I have a valid permit, as for two years I had leg problems that made walking painful. However, since those problems have largely cleared up, I no longer use the handicap parking. I still keep the permit in my car, in case the problems return. On the other hand, I knew someone who used his wife's permit, when he didn't need handicap parking.
A night in jail might make them think of their disrespect to the Handicapped.
Honestly my father is very very tired when he goes shopping but he will park his truck at the very far back of the parking lot to avoid being crashed into. I wish people were more like my father!
LOL My roomie did this once for his brand new Acura. It ended up getting hit by a car. You should always park where there are at least a few cars around, you know just as a precaution.
Why be upset if you’re just gonna let them go with a warning. Yeah that will teach them.
Don't give warnings, ticked them!
If you are dropping someone that is handicapped off, at the door, like I do w my mom, you should still find somewhere else to park, especially if you're staying in the vehicle
Don't lecture, just cite.
My Husband had a Handicap Tag up until he passed away and I never used it unless he was with me and if he didn't get out of the truck, I didn't park in Handicap....
Why give a warning ? that's part of the problem
i was given a handicap permit to keep in my personal vehicle for my daughter who has a disability, i used it only 2 times in a year and only when she was with me, it actually stayed in the truck door unless it was needed then i hung it on the mirror
Where I live I see many many handicapped parking spaces at big box stores - always empty.
My mother has epilepsy, therefore she is handicapped, she has a placard, and of someone did this to her, they would be in the hospital.
WolfGirl_ YAS! Smart! I’m sure your Mom would appreciate you assaulting someone and possibly getting arrested over a parking space.
$1000 in fines before Christmas stupidity does not pay.
It’s rare to see someone receiving a ticket for illegal parking. Once they pay the first ticket they won’t do it again, we’ll maybe.
It’s terrible that this action results in the owner losing their placard for 6-8 weeks. That’s a terrible inconvenience! Don’t tell me that every handicapped person is aware their placard is “borrowed”.
The fines are too small they should increase it
1:01 I didn’t know is the oldest excuse in the book I think it’s about as old as the 10 Commandments.
I also have a permit, but...I have always wondered...what if the holder is in the car with their caregiver/kid/whatever...? Do they get fined for not getting out of the car while their caretaker...whatever, is doing bank and food runs? (I won't be using it much longer, thou, as I am almost back to 'better' after being hit by a driver. I guess when it expires...I burn it??
ignorance of the law is not an excuse, should tow the car and they have to pay the fine to get it out
what if your driving to pick someone up who has a permit and have to park next to the door for them to be able to access it?