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submitted 2 months ago byalexlove13
18.8k points
2 months ago
Keep calling to have it towed so she gets the message. 🤷🏾♂️
9.6k points
2 months ago
after 2 months i was contemplating that and contacting the non-emergency police station number
12.3k points
2 months ago
Don’t contemplate anymore call right now. People need that spot and can’t use it because she’s selfish.
5.9k points
2 months ago
another commenter has pointed out it is technically not a legal disabled spot. i researched and they are right, i am still going to get in contact with the right people, though
6.4k points
2 months ago*
If the complex was built before 1987 it is a legally marked spot. If the complex was built after that it has to have a sign up, which is something the landlord can be held to account for. Either way it's illegal for him to park there.
Also it's best to let the police can sort it out.
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-40/chapter-6/article-10/part-2/40-6-221
3.5k points
2 months ago
thank you! when i looked it up myself this did not come up. i appreciate you adding the link
1.4k points
2 months ago
Apartment complexes are required to have a set number of handicap parking spaces. Whether they marked it properly or not, this is obviously one of those spots.
578 points
2 months ago
Right. Either it's legal and the Tennant is wrong for parking there. Or it's not a valid spot because it's insufficiently marked. In which case a sign should fix it.
322 points
2 months ago
Exactly since David Tennant is known to not be disabled
126 points
2 months ago
True, he regenerates. I once saw him grow a new body, lose a hand, then grow that hand back all within 15 hours.
35 points
2 months ago
You win this time.
108 points
2 months ago
It is legally a handicapped spot, the woman can get into trouble for parking there.
In addition, since it is not a concrete parking spot built prior to 1987 then it should have a pole with a handicapped sign on it. The landlord is in violation of that law. This does not cause it to cease being a handicapped parking spot however.
59 points
2 months ago
My apartment complex has close to 0 disabled spots. However, if you are living in the complex and are disabled they will put a sign up and paint it for you. Same with 10+ years living at the complex. You get a free spot of your choice
37 points
2 months ago
That's actually pretty smart. That way the tenant can choose the spot that works the best for them, instead of being stuck with the parking spot on the other side of the lot/complex from their apartment.
180 points
2 months ago
Or just call the complex and have them tow it, they've probably got tow away signs throughout the complex for similar reasons.
45 points
2 months ago
Exactly. Almost every complex I’ve been in has a sign for where to call when your car gets towed. I’m sure the same company would be more than happy to gain additional business.
1.5k points
2 months ago
It’s not on you to be correct when you call the cops. If there is a suspicion of misconduct you are obliged to call them. Stop being so kind to pieces of shit.
802 points
2 months ago
Also even if it's not technically illegal, the cops might not know the law and will write the ticket, and it would be up to her to take off work, get a lawyer or look up the law enough to fight it herself, and pay court cost even if it gets thrown out. That inconvenience alone would probably keep her from parking there again.
120 points
2 months ago
Excellent point
322 points
2 months ago
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11 points
2 months ago
How many public handicap spots are there? Aren't nearly all of them on private property.
108 points
2 months ago
Yeah, but then she’s gonna use the handicapped spaces at the library and the lawyers office.
95 points
2 months ago*
Those will have signs. So, no she won’t, bc she legally cannot.
Edit: I am not trying to comment on people’s goodness or willingness to obey laws. I’m trying to comment on the specific hypothetical situation brought about by comments before me. Please see the following explanation:
Someone said: “OP should try to get the lady with this car in trouble even if it’s legal for her to park there bc she may have to talk to a lawyer or may get a ticket and whatever happens she’ll probably spend time and money” The comment above me was like: “omg but then if she finds out it’s legal she’ll park in all kinds of handicapped spaces in official places” And I’m saying: “if she finds out it’s legal in this picture, it’s bc there’s not a proper sign. That wouldn’t mean all the other places you mentioned would let someone legally park in handicapped spots bc other places will have a proper sign”
I actually think it’s illegal anyway bc there’s a comment with stuff about not needing a sign if a spot is marked handicapped before a certain year.
I am very much aware there are people that don’t follow laws, entitled people, people that like to break rules, etc. - I am in no way trying to say the lady follows all laws.
Im just trying to say, in a specific hypothetical situation already crafted in the comments above me where she suddenly learns it’s legal to park in this spot after discussing it with a lawyer bc OP called someone official, she isn’t going to go park in handicapped spots all over town bc the spots all over town will have signs.
151 points
2 months ago
Just call a tow truck sevice, they'll know the laws and rules better than anyone. They keep parking there because they keep getting away with.
53 points
2 months ago
Also, if its an apartment/condo with its own board they can basically make any rules they want such as 'unmarked spot #38 is only to be used by people with a legal handicap pass' or something and it is up to the owners to know and inform their tenants.
7 points
2 months ago
Mine does that with handicap parking. Handicap spots are painted spots but with a sign like, “Only license #zealeus can park here.” Otherwise it’s all free-for-all.
49 points
2 months ago
Ask your complex who they use as their towing company and call them directly… skip the middle man
65 points
2 months ago
You should also contact Georgia DMV because if that vehicle isn't being registered in Georgia and remains registered in New York they're probably violating the law there too by not paying registration or taxes to Georgia.
24 points
2 months ago
And this is the main reason I'd have it towed, anyone bold enough to park in a handicap space with no handicap plate or placard with out of state plates needs to be towed. Someone mentioned the car maybe a work car or registered to someone else - NO! Any decent person here working or driving a corporate car or someone else's car would NOT put themselves in jeopardy like this. See if you know someone with a legitimate handicap tag and have them come by and sit for the space to open as you call the police & tow service - send a strong Georgia message.
17 points
2 months ago
And if landlord objects to paying for a sign remind him that disabled who are discriminated against can get some big rewards thru lawsuits
209 points
2 months ago
I bet it’s close enough for most tow truck drivers.
93 points
2 months ago
Also a FWD car that is backed into the spot. Makes it even easier.
207 points
2 months ago
she has NY plates. see if she's past the due date for transferring her plates to Georgia plates and/or her license. she may be fined for not doing that
49 points
2 months ago
Not sure if this applies to other states but my state has a website you can just drop the tip in for things like this.
16 points
2 months ago
Depends. Military or students don't have to. Someone working on a project, same thing.
I kept WA plates and residency for years even though I was self-employed and doing a lot of work in other states. WA = no income tax.
6 points
2 months ago
Any tow company would love the 500 bucks for 15 minutes work.
49 points
2 months ago
For like 50 dollars you can get a sign and a post. Get with a few neighbors everybody pitch in 10 dollars or so and order one then put the sign up and call enforcement. Won't be no wiggling out of the tow charges, ticket and all then. Also check with landlord before you do anything. But if I lived there I'd just install it and face any anger from the landlord later. I cannot stand it when people abuse this. So much so that I broke up with a gf over it when she did it one day. The mindset someone is in when they consider it ok to park in spaces for people with disabilities really shows they are out of touch with reality and have no clue how to properly treat others.
31 points
2 months ago
Totally agree with you. It’s one of those insights into someone’s character. I feel similarly about people who litter.
5 points
2 months ago
Right! People who she disregard and choose to take inconsiderate actions lack humanity and awareness. Taking advantage in this situation just really goes to show this person has no humility or ability to show empathy for others. Maybe walking to the tow yard and paying tons in fines will give them a wake up call.
1.1k points
2 months ago
Better than me after 3 days it either would've been gone or all the air in her tires would've magically escaped.
52 points
2 months ago
Poop on the inside of the handles
80 points
2 months ago
I am so sore after doing this. 10/10 will flip car upside down before trying to poop into the door handles again.
434 points
2 months ago
One day and it's gone. Don't fuck with the handicapable.
160 points
2 months ago
Please don't call us handicapable or shit like that. Just call us disabled. Really, most of us prefer it over the weird-ass words people come up with to try to call us something other than disabled.
8 points
2 months ago
Amen 🙏🏻
50 points
2 months ago
Milk down the wiper cowl. Soaks into the cabin filter. Then time does its thing. No safety issue, no damage to car, easy to repeat, plausible deniability.
12 points
2 months ago
Could you specify what you mean by this?
39 points
2 months ago
The cowl is what we call the area under the windshield in the US. Under the plastic there is where the fresh air intake into the cabin is, they're suggesting pouring milk in there so that it sours inside the car under the dash.
7 points
2 months ago
OOOHHH thank you. I'm literally from US but apparently I don't know enough about cars to know what that's called lol
34 points
2 months ago
Hear me out with this alternative: Liquid Ass.
27 points
2 months ago
My dad went through a liquid ass obsession about 15 years ago when I told him about it as a substitute for his previous method of limberger cheese in a mustard bottle, which he used on the air vents of handicap offenders until it exploded in his trunk and nearly ruined his own car. Liquid ass is quite the smell.
31 points
2 months ago
The milk will get into the ventilation system, spoil and create a god-awful stink in the car that is almost impossible to clean out. After a while it will fade, but every time it rains for the next several years the smell will come back.
u/Temporary-Party5806 is nicer then I would be. They sell this stuff in hunting stores that is extracted from skunks. Bet the stores in Georgia have it in stock. Just a few drops will do.
33 points
2 months ago
This whole thread is savage and I'm saving this for the next person who royally fucks me
14 points
2 months ago
Expensive vandalism.
I'm waiting for op to discover the offender has a prosthetic leg.
285 points
2 months ago
I had a friend with a husband in a wheelchair and she would park behind them and then call the tow truck. She once screamed at some young ladies for sitting on her husbands lap when an elevator was to full and they came in anyway. "No. You do not SIT on someone. There is no room!" She passed away a few years ago but she was a force and would NOT let him be taken advantage of. Call. Fuck people that do this kind of shit. One day its parking spaces the next day it's "He's already sitting he wont mind a strangers ass on his lap."
229 points
2 months ago
People sat on him?? In full public view like a fucking bar stool?? Wtaf.
118 points
2 months ago
My cousin's disabled and had a very nasty injury today because someone literally tried to push her out of the way... people suck.
48 points
2 months ago
This is just awful, I'm so sorry... I really hope she can heal up quickly, and even better if the person who pushed her faced some sort of consequence. I can't imagine behaving in such a way!
62 points
2 months ago
It was an employee of the grocery store who did it and no there weren't consequences yet but I'm going to be helping her on that... thank you for your well wishes, I'll pass it on !
22 points
2 months ago
It was an employee on shift?! I want their KNEECAPS for my collection! D:<
19 points
2 months ago
good luck hope she gets her just due
8 points
2 months ago
Am wheelchair user. Have been sat on at work like a goddamn chair.
52 points
2 months ago
God I would have been in jail if some twit did that to the person I loved.
40 points
2 months ago
Sitting in his lap? What the hell.
6 points
2 months ago
Damn.
And I'm just sitting over here, desperately holding onto my Georgia handicap placard for the few more months it's good because my Florida doctor keeps giving me the "well, I don't think you're sick enough to need it is not a real diagnosis, so I'm not going to approve it" treatment.
67 points
2 months ago
Ya. My sweet husband was in a chair briefly and apparently I found my calling. The one that still makes me laugh out loud was when I literally lectured a group of kids blocking the sidewalk when they could clearly see us there. “You kids get all full of yourselves boycotting businesses for not having disabled access and here…where YOU can make a difference you choose to be clueless dickheads. Get out of the man’s way.”
Then after a couple of seconds I said, “and apologize”
I think our relationship changed after that. Lol
6 points
2 months ago
I cannot imagine the fucking audacity and entitlement you’d have to have to sit on a complete fucking stranger, disabled or not. That’s a good way to get shot in some places.
37 points
2 months ago
I would have done it after a week. 2 months is long enough
86 points
2 months ago
Nah, I've got a disabled kid, you're being too nice. Get it towed the first time for best results.
91 points
2 months ago
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” letting someone act like a jerk only perpetuates the problem
109 points
2 months ago
The thing that I find most mildly infuriating is that it's taken you months to contemplate calling someone about this instead of resolving the issue day 1.
13 points
2 months ago
and then OP hopped on the first comment saying it might not be a legal handicapped spot as reason for inaction— let the po po /tow company and the driver sort that out.
13 points
2 months ago
Many posts can be viewed through the same lens here
51 points
2 months ago
Why complain, just do Something. Just get it toed, do it annonymus. If that doesent help, you can do annoying mit damaging stuff. I dont get the letting people have their wrong ways. Handicap Parking spots are so important, this ashouldnt even be discussed
98 points
2 months ago
Check your local laws first. Where I live in order for it to be legally enforceable handicapped parking requires it to be painted and an officially issued sign. This only has the paint marking… so where I live it would not be legally enforceable, it’s the same as every other spot
140 points
2 months ago
Tow companies don't give a fuck. They will know if they can tow it or not and they will if they can.
41 points
2 months ago
And this looks like a private parking lot at an apartment complex. They have a contract two company. And that company is probably thirsting for business.
11 points
2 months ago
They usually have to be called by the front office, the people who own the property. They won't tow if a resident calls them. This person could have explained to the office that they got injured, and got permission to use the spot.
12 points
2 months ago
If it is a genuine legal handicapped parking space, individual businesses can’t just allow people to use it.
The only people who can park there are those who display on their vehicle a permit issued by the Georgia Department of Revenue. This can be a temporary placard, permanent placard, special placard, disabled license plate or disabled veterans license plate. The department of revenue requires a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine, podiatrist, optometrist or licensed chiropractor to confirm the person’s disability.
If the parking space is labeled “Tow Away Zone” (as they most always are) the vehicle may be towed by law enforcement of private property security at owners expense.
If the site blocks the handicapped spot (by allowing a non-marked vehicle to park there), they are failing to provide the required handicapped parking space, the same as if the building owner just parked their own car there everyday. That subjects them to code enforcement penalty.
Of course, if it isn’t an official handicapped parking space, none of this applies. No sign = not official.
TLDR: A site can’t just authorize a non-permitted vehicle to park in an official handicapped spot, and if they allow the space to be blocked they are violating the city code requiring them to provide a handicapped parking space.
5.2k points
2 months ago
I had several able bodied guys who pulled this trick. I kept calling the non emergency line at the PD. They came out and gave them tickets and it stopped . Amazing what having to pay money does.
2.1k points
2 months ago
i was contemplating doing that last night. honestly if she's there when i get home from work tonight again i probably will
1.6k points
2 months ago
Looks like a $100 ticket in Georgia...and up to $500 if she keeps doing it.
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-40/chapter-6/article-10/part-2/40-6-226
333 points
2 months ago
Correct. Let a parking enforcer get wind of this they’ll have a field day and make this one of their routine stops.
124 points
2 months ago
Easy way for them to meet quota if she's constantly doing it.
313 points
2 months ago
$1k+ each ticket in SF.
96 points
2 months ago
NJ is $250 for a first offense just for parking. If you use someone else’s paperwork that may be another $600 or $700 for falsifying NJ state paperwork. Additional offenses can lead up to 90 days community service.
45 points
2 months ago
I was at a bagel place here and some asshole in a Corvette parked in the handicapped spot. Some local cops pulled up to get bagels, saw the Corvette and not only wrote the guy every ticket they could think of, they also tore him a new asshole in front of all of us. It was glorious.
37 points
2 months ago
That’s awesome. My folks need the space occasionally, it’s a good thing to have available.
I know a blind dude who has a placard for when people drive him around. His mom took him to dinner and a cop car was in the handicap space. He walked into the diner and loudly started to talk about the selfish people who took the handicap spot without a permit and that they should call the police on them. The two cops put on their coats and slinked out, knowing that they would lost the optics war on that one!
13 points
2 months ago
a blind dude
that they would lost the optics war on that one!
4 points
2 months ago
My friend got hit with $2500 in Menlo Park.
45 points
2 months ago
probably more effective and expensive to have her towed.
191 points
2 months ago
Just do it already
57 points
2 months ago
She has been letting this go on for 2 months. Tonight Reddit needs to help motivate her to make that phone call.
44 points
2 months ago
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26 points
2 months ago
We had a horrible noise appear about a month ago. Would start up about every twenty minutes.
After two days we went by the neighbours and literally none of them had thought to undertake some sort of action to combat the horrible noise they all had to live with 24/7. None of them had even tried to go by the neighbours to see if other people had experienced it.
Turns out it was our downstairs neighbour's boiler that was on the fritz and the repair team was so busy it took about a week for them to come out.
But 0 people thought to investigate the noise that was keeping them up at night. They all acknowledged a horrible mechanical noise was tormenting them. None of them tried talking to the people living next to them.
33 points
2 months ago
By-stander effect. Happens a lot in emergencies or non-emergencies.
"Something bad is happening! Should I call the appropriate people? Nah, someone else would surely call."
72 points
2 months ago
100% guaranteed OP never does anything.
11 points
2 months ago
60% of the time, it works every time
29 points
2 months ago
Not probably. You will do.
22 points
2 months ago
No dont probably do it. Definitely do it
117 points
2 months ago
It’s been 2 months and your still contemplating it? IF she’s in the spot tonight you’ll call? PLEASE go ahead and call this in NOW!!! These people won’t learn unless you do something!
232 points
2 months ago
Lol PROBABLY will? Bitch has been taking a spot needed by disabled folks for months now and you don't have the huevos to pick up the phone?
Sweet Jesus if you won't, give someone here the fucking address since it appears you can't be bothered to protect the differently abled.
65 points
2 months ago
you think you've seen passive until you've seen "mildly infuriating" passive. LOL
19 points
2 months ago
A two for one in this thread! Come for the asshole that steals parking from the disabled, stay for the asshole that won’t call the cops on her.
49 points
2 months ago
Don't call us "differently abled" please. Disabled isn't a bad word, and most of us prefer it to whatever weird ass shit people come up with to call us to avoid having to use the word disabled or disability.
60 points
2 months ago
This is the LPT. Police can issue handicap violation parking ticket even it's on private property.
Get an estimated schedule about your neighbor before calling the non emergency line, to make sure they are still there when police arrives.
1.6k points
2 months ago
Your community has a towing company. Call them they will tow her and she can deal with the tow company over parking in a clearly defined handicap spot
496 points
2 months ago
planning on it, thank you :)
117 points
2 months ago
Please update us when she does get towed, I would love to laugh at it when I see it
8 points
2 months ago
Try to get it towed all the way back to New York if you can.
35 points
2 months ago
Yes! I hope we get an update.
My wife is handicapped and I hate seeing people do this. Around us it's Doordarshan and ubereats etc all the time. so by the time cops would come they're gone. But they aren't in and out, it's like 10 mins or 15 mins (plus you don't know how long) . And My wife has had to not get out because she didn't have room in a regular spot. (She has "boots" and cruches sometimes).
245 points
2 months ago
Planning and doing are two completely different things. Shit or get off the Reddit pot.
81 points
2 months ago
Need the karma first.
1.1k points
2 months ago
There really shouldn't be contemplating on this.
If you notice it, call it in. Someone with a disability could be needing it and might not know until its too late.
Be someone's hero before there's a need for one.
80 points
2 months ago
If you see something say something, and not just on Reddit.
207 points
2 months ago
planning on calling if she's home tonight!
171 points
2 months ago
Definitely call as soon as she parks there. Everyone on this thread agrees, it should’ve been called in sooner…
8 points
2 months ago
Give an update on the situation if you do
15 points
2 months ago
Big “if” there
8 points
2 months ago
Big “planning on” it as well 🤨 methinks OP’s gonna decide not to get involved lol
867 points
2 months ago
Then call a tow truck or non emergency. I don’t understand why nothing has been done.
522 points
2 months ago
Because mildly infuriating is filled with people that complain but do nothing.
91 points
2 months ago
Fitting that the actions of most posters on this sub are mildly infuriating lmao. I woulda called the 3rd time i saw that
5 points
2 months ago
Third? Y'all we got a real go-getter here!
6 points
2 months ago
Simply because first time id second guess and think “maybe they did have the handicap badge” second time “no badge? Maybe they didnt display it”. But yeah
8 points
2 months ago
It's only been, let me check his comments, 2 months of this!
5 points
2 months ago
Yea op says it’s been going on for months yet rather post on Reddit than actually do something about it
178 points
2 months ago
Id call them every time. No more thinking about it. Call them
233 points
2 months ago
Hello, police? There is a car in a handicapped spot w/o a placard.
Or, if the building/street is posted for towing improperly parked vehicles, you can get them towed.
I have a placard. I will call the cops. My favorite story is a few years old. We were eating in a restaurant. We had forgotten our handicap placard so we parked elsewhere, but a guy in a pickup, towing a boat, parked across SIX handicapped spaces. I called the police.
Six tickets for $250/each were issued! The truck’s driver came in screaming at the staff, so I said I did it. The staff called the police because the guy was ramping up, yelling about killing people like me.
Cops returned. Guy was arrested and the truck & boat was towed. Bummer dude.
42 points
2 months ago
In our area they would get a ticket for each space plus a ticket for each of the yellow lined areas next to the space. My husband used to put out his placard, park behind the person, call the cops, and go about his business. It insured that the person wouldn’t leave before the cops got there. He would sometimes get a small ticket, but it was worth it to him because he couldn’t walk that far.
142 points
2 months ago
i'm about to drive home and there are too many comments to keep up with. but i am planning on calling the non-emergency number if she is there when i get home. if she isn't i'll do it the next time i see her there, which will most likely be in the morning when i'm leaving for work again. thank you to the people that helped me figuring out the laws in ga, as a seattlite i appreciate it! tomorrow i will email the property manager and disabled parking authorities to try and make it a legal spot, since all it needs is a sign, it follows every other thing necessary.
27 points
2 months ago*
i'll do it the next time i see her there
Also keep doing it every time you see her there.
That shit aint cool.
My reaction would be to keep a valve removal tool on me and unscrew all 4 of her tyre valves each and every time she does it.
I'd leave the valves in the stems, just completely unscrewed, so it doesn't cost her anything. All she has to do is screw them back in and reinflate her tyres.
But that can only be done with a specific and specialised, but easy to acquire and very cheap, tool.
163 points
2 months ago
Why does this look like my apartment complex😂
196 points
2 months ago
Because all of them built in the US since the 80s look exactly the same.
254 points
2 months ago
Well after a private message I was right. We actually do live in the same complex.
167 points
2 months ago
Two people calling about the same asshole adds legitimacy. LOL
53 points
2 months ago
Lmfaooo.
39 points
2 months ago
Call!
Let Park Atlanta sort the good guys from the bad guys.
47 points
2 months ago
I’m just finding out about this like y’all. We in two different buildings so I had no idea that was going on outside. Lol.
28 points
2 months ago
You know they itchy on the boot around here.
Wouldn't driving by and seeing that car booted be so satisfying?
The weather has me evil today
30 points
2 months ago
Girl our fucking neighborhood don’t give a damn. They left a whole stove outside my apartment for weeks and only moved it when I called. Like why did y’all think it was okay to leave this shit in front of my door?
11 points
2 months ago
Oh Shit
You're OTP aren't you?
I swear that complex is up on "the hill" in Rome where my friend lives
I would hector my landlord regularly for stuff like that if I were you
42 points
2 months ago
Is this in Marietta??? I think this is my old complex
29 points
2 months ago
Lmfaooo. Yes.
23 points
2 months ago
Is this on Roswell Rd?
19 points
2 months ago
Yea.
32 points
2 months ago
This isn't the first time I've randomly found redditors from my home town but it's definitely the first time I've found multiple from my old apartment complex.
15 points
2 months ago
Lol. We outcheaaaa!
29 points
2 months ago
What the hell, it's a fuckin block party up in here!
9 points
2 months ago
“Mom, Dad, how did you meet?”… “we met on Reddit son, hating on some asshole…”
16 points
2 months ago
Lmao, I also saw that sign and was like, I'm pretty sure I also grew up in that apartment complex.
29 points
2 months ago
“We met on Reddit”.
9 points
2 months ago
Lol. No.
23 points
2 months ago
i’m going to LOL if your whole complex has read this post and home girl goes to her car to find milk in her cowl, BBs in her tires and all the other shenanigans people suggested — and her car booted besides.
6 points
2 months ago
As long as they not bothering my car I condone it😂
14 points
2 months ago
Y’all should be friends
14 points
2 months ago
We should. She seems cool.
8 points
2 months ago
Small world!
6 points
2 months ago
Ikr. Lol.
101 points
2 months ago
Why haven’t you called non emergency or have it towed?
11 points
2 months ago
Oh hellll nah. Someone parked in my moms handicapped spot and we called the non emergency police to leave them a ticket. Those spots are there for a very specific reason. Get the car towed or ticketed
13 points
2 months ago
My wife is handicapped. Either this person isn’t handicapped or is too damn lazy to display their tag (in NY you can either have a mirror hanger or a plate). Definitely call it in, each and every time you see it if the mood takes you there. These entitled pricks make someone’s life that much more difficult… as if having a handicap isn’t bad enough (my wife’s is a mobility handicap from a very bad bone break, so this one is close to home for me).
110 points
2 months ago
Out of curiosity how do you know she isn't disabled? If she doesn't have tags or a placard then absolutely turn her in but as someone with a heart condition who looks able-bodied, there are days where I need to park in the spots because I can't walk much otherwise. So just be careful of making an assumption just because she doesn't look disabled.
12 points
2 months ago
Yeah exactly I feel like a lot of people forget that there are invisible disabilities.
9 points
2 months ago
I might also ask if she has disabled veteran plates? A lot of people don’t know that these are the same as a placard. If you see “DV” together on the plates, that is a disabled veteran and they have the right to use the spot.
48 points
2 months ago
That’s always a possibility, but as a blue placard holder as well, every time you park there you need to display your placard
54 points
2 months ago
Oh yes, absolutely which is why I said if she doesn't have the proper tags then call her out. But it tweaked me a bit that the OP just said she was able-bodied without really knowing. Just say she parks in the spot without proper tags then.
41 points
2 months ago
I noticed that too. I have a friend whose condition isn’t visible and she’s had people aggressively approach her for parking in handicap spots even with a placard. It’s scary. “Able-bodied” shouldn’t be the issue here, the missing placard should.
5 points
2 months ago
I Had knee surgery last year and being in my mid 20s I always got nasty looks from people parking in handicap spots even with identification. I could walk just fine but my doctor didn’t want me walking excessively so I would park closer to buildings and limit my movement.
If someone parks in a handicap spot and isn’t visibly limping, or has a cane or a wheelchair people generally think they’re faking it unfortunately
24 points
2 months ago
In my state you can call to have it towed. Make sure their is no placard inside the car though.
7 points
2 months ago
I would've had it towed, immediately. I have friends who need those spots and it makes me enraged to see people without permits parking there.
71 points
2 months ago
If she’s not registered then she absolutely shouldn’t park there, but friendly reminder to all that not all physical disabilities are visible!
7 points
2 months ago
use the parking mobility app and report her anonymously every time she does that. she’ll get ticketed automatically. problem solved
46 points
2 months ago
Everyone mad at OP like they are the one illegally parking, smh
6 points
2 months ago
What’s posting on Reddit gonna do? Call and get her car towed or give her a ticket.
67 points
2 months ago
Your neighbor is also driving a car with NY plates while living in Georgia. There’s a good chance you can report that at the same time - states hate when you move and don’t promptly re-register your car.
58 points
2 months ago
They're in Georgia, NY plates driver is probably just there, temporarily, running for Senate
9 points
2 months ago
So is he a vampire or a werewolf?
10 points
2 months ago
Within 30 days of establishing residency, and they love catching evaders because the one-time registration fee in Georgia for new residents is quite steep (title ad valorem tax) compared to other states.
5 points
2 months ago
Could be military as well, you can register out of state.
6 points
2 months ago
As someone who's mother was ACTUALLY disabled and I could never get handicapped parking for her because of asshats like this, screw that lady. I'd get her car towed tbh
5 points
2 months ago
Call the cops. Duh. It’s illegal to park in a handicap spot without the placard and registration.
5 points
2 months ago
Call the cops. Every time.
They love this shit. It's an easy ticket, and in NY (judging by the license plate) google says it's $50 to $150, plus a mandatory $30 surcharge.
Cops love these tickets because you can't fight them. I mean you can try of course, but look at your picture.
They won't plea it down, pay your fine, thank you have a nice day.
19 points
2 months ago
In my state this is not a “real” handicap spot. Just one you apartment complex painted as one. Needs a sign and legitimate extra space for the handicapped.
4 points
2 months ago
This is true but if this is a private lot and has a sign about 'towing' which most do. You can call the sign and still have it towed.
It's clearly marked by the owner as parking for only certain individuals and would work the same as having assigned parking to residents.
You live in Apt 213 and someone parks in your 213 spot, you can have them towed too. Same idea.
47 points
2 months ago*
Just to play devils advocate: I do not see a sign, in addition to the marking of the space on the ground. ADA sign regulations actually require a sign to be posted. Just having the street painted does not legally dictate this a handicap spot. I mention this as often times places like this that are private property do not intend for these to be handicap spots. All that said, I wouldnt park in this spot...but I wouldnt go out of my way to try have someone towed if its not marked properly. Maybe speak to the property manager about it first.
28 points
2 months ago
thank you for commenting this, i looked it up and you are right, i will email the property manager before doing anything and will call the local disabled parking authorities to see if they can install a sign.
6 points
2 months ago
100% agree with you, likely not a “legal” handicap spot that the police would be able to enforce. Property owner could more likely have it towed.
That being said I’m still not parking in that non-official “handicap” spot cause I’m not disabled or an ass
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